Why the republican party doesnt appeal to people...

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"When they were white and carrying machine guns, TR☭MP cheered them on.

When they were black and demanding justice, he threatened them with dogs and violence.

If you are still wondering whether TR☭MP is racist, you should start wondering if you are too."


As Democrats rolled out their policing reform legislation on Monday, a reporter asked about Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a Trump ally who claims there is no “structural racism” in law enforcement and who called for an “overwhelming show of force” by the U.S. military to quash racial unrest.

Attorney General William P. Barr organizes a violent police crackdown on peaceful civil rights demonstrators so President Trump can stage a photo op. Trump clamors to mobilize the U.S. military against U.S. citizens. Top Trump administration officials deny there is systemic racism in law enforcement.


And in Texas, the Republican chairman of 12 counties and the Texas agriculture commissioner share grotesque postings on social media, including:

  • Declaring George Floyd’s killing a “staged event” to counter the “rising approval rating of President Trump.”
  • Placing a quote about justice from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. over the image of a banana.
  • Alleging that the Jewish billionaire George Soros is paying protesters in an attempt to “start the race war.”
  • Calling the slain Floyd a “brutal criminal” and saying he faked his asphyxiation while a police officer pressed a knee to Floyd’s neck.
  • Showing a bloody scene from a 1992 riot and saying “this is why you don’t brake for ‘protesters.’ ”
Trump’s Republican Party displays its systemic racism
 

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I hate to be picky about it but the Republican party, or at least Trump, did appeal to people in 2016...?

. . . The stupid and uneducated. The specifically thanked them on election night. Trump is proof public education is really bad in the U.S.
 
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I hate to be picky about it but the Republican party, or at least Trump, did appeal to people in 2016...?
Mr Trump lost the Popular vote by about 3 million, but due to an archaic electoral college, he was elected president.

Clinton
65,853,514
Trump
62,984,828
 

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Mr Trump lost the Popular vote by about 3 million, but due to an archaic electoral college, he was elected president.

Clinton
65,853,514
Trump
62,984,828

With respect, you would say that as your preferred candidate didn't win. If it had been the other way around, would you still be calling for electoral (college) reform?

Very few democratic systems are what could be described as "fair" - most contain historical quirks and biases - I could go on at length about the UK parliamentary system/first past the post &c &c at length but it doesn't change the fact that that is the system.
 
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With respect, you would say that as your preferred candidate didn't win. If it had been the other way around, would you still be calling for electoral (college) reform?

Very few democratic systems are what could be described as "fair" - most contain historical quirks and biases - I could go on at length about the UK parliamentary system/first past the post &c &c at length but it doesn't change the fact that that is the system.
My state is part of this effort to do away with the Electoral College.
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact - Wikipedia
 

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It's like in the UK where I think it was the 2005 election when Tony Blair got back in with a 66 seat majority on 36% of the electorate and a 61% voter turnout!

They all bang on about reform but when it comes down to it politicians know that the way the British system is stacked produces (usually) strong governments and that next time it could be them who benefit.
 
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Mr Trump lost the Popular vote by about 3 million, but due to an archaic electoral college, he was elected president.

Clinton
65,853,514
Trump
62,984,828


... to SOME. To others, a con-man Grifter-in-Chief O. Office OCCUPANT and wannabe dictator, who's profited from the office, stoked and given rise hate based ideology and sentiment, and FAILED this nation, on so MANY levels.

Two Trump Judges Broke Ethics Rules to Stop Up to 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November

Jana Riess: White evangelicals didn’t hold their noses to vote for Trump. His toxic masculinity is what they’ve been defending for decades.


Trump Mocked For Claiming He's Done More For Black Americans Than Lincoln | HuffPost
One Twitter user agreed that [he] has united Black voters like no other... but added that “it’s against him.”


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North Dakota governor blasts party’s anti-LGBTQ resolution

The resolution — one of dozens of party policy statements in a passed by this spring by mail-in ballot — states that many “LGBT practices are unhealthy and dangerous, sometimes endangering or shortening life and sometimes infecting society at large.”
You have to almost gag at the resolution as their party leader leads the country on a death march.
 
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Today’s GOP in a nutshell: Jaw-dropping incompetence and grotesque disrespect for others

Two defining features of the Republican Party were on display Thursday. Together, they are proof that the flaws of today’s GOP are not limited to President Trump and reason enough to send the party in its current manifestation into the political wilderness.

The first, and most important, feature is the party’s jaw-dropping incompetence. We not only have Trump’s failure to address the coronavirus pandemic (as well as dozens of other examples ranging from a wall you can saw through to a government shutdown), but also the incapacity of the Republican-controlled Senate to do its job.

The Post reports: “Senate Republicans killed President Trump’s payroll tax cut proposal on Thursday but failed to reach agreement with the White House on a broader coronavirus relief bill.” That, in turn, sent lawmakers into “a frantic scramble with competing paths forward . . . and the entire effort appeared to teeter chaotically on the brink of failure.” They have had more than two months to consider a plan following the House’s swift passage of the Heroes Act. They have heard from Trump-appointed Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, who urged the Senate to put together a substantial relief package. It still doesn’t have its act together. (Can you imagine if they invalidated the Affordable Care Act and were charged with finding a replacement?)

The second defining feature of today’s Republicans is their grotesque disrespect for their fellow Americans, with a deep strain of misogyny. We have become so accustomed to Trump’s ugliness that we sometimes ignore outbursts from other Republicans. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was not about to let that happen on Thursday.

 

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With respect, you would say that as your preferred candidate didn't win. If it had been the other way around, would you still be calling for electoral (college) reform?

Very few democratic systems are what could be described as "fair" - most contain historical quirks and biases - I could go on at length about the UK parliamentary system/first past the post &c &c at length but it doesn't change the fact that that is the system.

"Historical quirks and biases" is the giveaway. If they're "historical," that means they're of a particular moment in time--and not necessarily right for this one. And if they're no more than "quirks and biases," that means there's no justification for holding on to them.
 
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