[quote=FlyerInHi]I can’t stand Trump, but one thing I’m rejoicing about is the destruction of Republican ideology.[/quote]
Much of trump’s administration and most of congress are very much in line with republican idology.
Combine that with this…
———————– Wayne Barrett, the legendary Village Voice muckraker who died on Thursday, at the age of seventy-one, had covered Trump for almost as long as anybody. (He published a book about him, in 1992.) “Donald just has no interest in information,” Barrett told Jennifer Gonnerman, shortly after the election. “He has no genuine interest in policy. He operates by impulse.”
…and I see tons of republican-ideology driven policy in our future. All trump really seems to care about is how he looks and that people love him. Scratch that. Not love him. Think he’s great. He’ll do whatever it takes to feed his ego. He’ll talk about how great he is, and how terrible anybody who insults him or points out his flaws is. He’ll work toward anything that he thinks will end up making him look good. He’ll yell and bluster and cry and insult. But when it comes to the hard work of understanding the details of and making decisions regarding policies on issues that aren’t headline-grabbing, he’ll leave that to his administration and to congress. And that’s why I predict we’ll see lots of republican-ideology driven policy in our future.
Which is even more of a shame than it would be if most of the people who voted for trump actually wanted it. I think most trump voters just hated Hillary and hated Obama and hated politicians and hated the status quo (and hated those things to the degree they did mostly due to misinformation they’d received). Or they wanted somebody who spoke their language and considered them important. (I think trump speaks their language, and he pretends to consider them important).
I think the percentage of Americans who actually want republican conservatism to take over is very small and shrinking (read – dying of old age). But we’re stuck with it for the next 4 years because trump doesn’t want to bother with details. And he doesn’t care enough about any issue that doesn’t aggrandize him to fight congress over it.
If he gets a couple supreme court picks, and he picks super-right judges, the effect could last for decades.
