No. of Recommendations: 5
Trump Promises More Activist Government
“As he campaigns to retake the White House, Donald Trump has increasingly tossed aside the principles of limited government and local control that have defined the Republican Party for decades,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The former president is laying plans to wield his executive authority to influence school curricula, prevent doctors from providing medical interventions for young transgender people and pressure police departments to adopt more severe anticrime policies. All are areas where state or local officials have traditionally taken the lead.”
“It is a governing platform barely recognizable to prior generations of Republican politicians, who campaigned against one-size-fits-all federal dictates and argued that state legislators, mayors and town halls were best positioned to oversee their communities. While many of his proposals would be difficult to achieve, the second-term agenda outlined by Trump could require waves of new federal intervention, even as he calls for firing government workers, neutering the “deep state” and cutting regulations.”
Wall Street Journal
The GOP is no longer the party of small government.
No. of Recommendations: 2
The QOP (I can't bring myself to call it "Grand" anymore) is not even close to the party I joined when I turned 18. Which is why I abandoned it after the 2000 primaries (McCain would have been better than George II).
Trump isn't even paying lip service to many of their former-core principles. Yet they don't seem to notice.
But if Trump continues to scare people with his dictatorial rhetoric, they'll show up in droves to make sure he doesn't win.
