I just wanted to be like WhiterockOldbear83 said:Corrected againOsodecentx said:whiterock said:Iron Law of Woke Projection4th and Inches said:Dem 101: accuse others of what you do..whiterock said:not nearly so much as the neverTrumpers.Osodecentx said:You are putting on a clinic using those tacticswhiterock said:First joke we learned at Langley: "Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter-accusations."Sam Lowry said:Okay, but what about Oso's question? Does advancing your policy goals mean your guy gets away with anything?whiterock said:Osodecentx said:I have worked with and voted for folks I consider a little dodgy before.whiterock said:Osodecentx said:Not sure I want to be in the Republican Party. I'll just let you boys grind it into a minority party.Canada2017 said:The will still have a place within the Republican Party ( Where else they going to go ? ) ......but obviously won't carry as much influence as they do currently .whiterock said:
the faulty assumption of neverTrumperism is that they will have a future home in the GOP after Trump is gone.
Could not be more incorrect.
If it was a clear minority party, your participation wouldn't matter one way or the other, now, would it? Instead, you have a golden opportunity for virtue posture to……"I am better than them,; their countenance and demeanor offends me, consequences be damned."
By denying support to a competitive coalition (leading in the polls for POTUS and Congress) which is largely in agreement with one's policy aims, one undermines one's policy aims and raises questions about one's value as a teammate.
Trump is a practical man who has positive relationships with people who heavily criticized him in the past. Good politicians do that. I chose to sit at table at Thursday lunch so I could visit with a man I don't particularly like and with whom I have rarely been in the same campaign, on two occasions opposed in very spirited contests. We visited. We caught up. He Introduced me to a couple of people I hadn't met before. I answered some questions he had for me. Why did I do that? I might need his help one day. And we might have to work together on a grand endeavor. If all I did was focus on the things I don't like about him (a couple of which are character things I coach my kids to avoid) and refused to engage with him at all, I don't have any positive impact on anything. I harm him, me, and the party. Does he reciprocate? A little. Not as much. It's the way he is. That's ok. An imbalanced detente is better than a grudge. In fact, I once chose to help him in a campaign that I didn't really care much about just to demonstrate to him that I didn't hold grudges
Don't think there is a reward waiting for you if we lose either of the next two elections. You'll be blamed for it. Including by people who feel almost exactly like you do about the party at the moment but decide that there are bigger issues at stake than the waxing and waning of coalitions and their captains.
What if the man you don't particularly like committed crimes and asked you to lie for him? Would advancing your policy goals mean he gets away with anything, including things that violate your deeply held principles?
What crimes has he been convicted of after 7 years of non-stop accusations and investigations? He's a crook but when NY investigates his books with a fine-toothed comb the only indictment is the bookkeeper for not properly expensing his own benefits? Legendary Bob Mueller and 16 angry Democrats (one of them crying on stage at HRC's election night party) could not find anything?
at what point is it put up or shut up for his accusers? At what point does the lack of ANYTHING illegal on the man begin to cast more questions about the nature of his accusers rather than the man himself? You are quite far out on the limb here….
The public at large has reached the proper conclusion on these questions. They are correct.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/public_surveys/biden_s_gestapo_trump_raid_hurts_voter_trust_in_fbi
Until you're comfortable playing a game governed by those rules, do not get involved in politics.
But take heart! You show good dexterity with those rules, combined with rare gifts of indefatigability.
*(Trump's) fiercest critics really accuse him of breaking norms, but what we're seeing here, and what we've seen constantly over time, is that they do that exact thing,"
Only worse, as they are abusing state power and societal institutions to to it.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trumps-fiercest-critics-guilty-very-violation-norms-accuse-jared-kushner?intcmp=tw_fncYouI adopted the Langley tactics
"First joke we learned at Langley: "Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter-accusations."
Until you're comfortable playing a game governed by those rules, do not get involved in politics."
