(December 15, 2022 at 9:59 am)TaraJo Wrote:(December 15, 2022 at 9:47 am)Ranjr Wrote: look at how quickly they became "socialists" handing out free money during the pandemic. Trump was like, I'll personally sign each check.
I think that was more about Trump and less about the republican party. Trump is an extreme narcissist and he'll do whatever he thinks will get him praised and if he thinks handing out pandemic stimulus checks will get people to praise him, he'll do it and damn the political consequences. If the president had been someone like Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham or Jeb Bush, I don't think that would have happened.
That being said, Trumps biggest impact on politics and America is how he transformed the republican party. They became less the party of Regan and more the party of Trump. That's what gave us lunatics like MTG and Boebart and Gaetz and Desantis. It's turned their media into crackpot conspiracies (even worse than it was before). It's got their base foaming at the mouth, constantly striking out in fear at some unseeable, vaguely defined, boogeyman enemy that's coming to get them.
An anti-flag burning amendment would fix all that.*
*sarcasm
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson