A Republican Intellectual Explains Why the Republican Party Is Going to Die

thermodynamic · Aug 1, 2016

http://www.amren.com/news/2016/07/a...ins-why-the-republican-party-is-going-to-die/

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“Either the disruption will come from the Republican Party representing cranky old white people and a new right-of-center party emerging in its place, or a third party will emerge, à la the Republicans emerging from the Whigs in the [1850s],” Roy says.

The work of conservative intellectuals today, he argues, is to devise a new conservatism–a political vision that adheres to limited government principles but genuinely appeals to a more diverse America.

“I think it’s incredibly important to take stock,” he says, “and build a new conservative movement that is genuinely about individual liberty.”

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I’ve read dozens of conservative intellectuals writing compellingly about non-racist conservative ideals. Writers like Andrew Sullivan, Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and too many others to count have put forward visions of a conservative party quite different from the one we have.

But not one of these writers, smart as they are, has been able to explain what actual political constituency could bring about this pure conservatism in practice. The fact is that limited government conservatism is not especially appealing to nonwhite Americans, whereas liberalism and social democracy are. The only ones for whom conservatism is a natural fit are Roy’s “cranky old white people”–and they’re dying off.
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What, not because it has ignored the working class people, for which individual freedom begins somewhere no republican bar one - or two - have openly even hinted at... but because it's a racial issue shaped like play-doh? Are all the Republicans white, with the black and brown and blue Republicans wearing gobs of white paint on their faces and hands?!!

Or because of the perception that all sorts of non-republicans look no different according to various compass charts?

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

DrewDaHilp1 · Aug 1, 2016

If you want to see why the Republican party is dying all you have to do is look at their platform. LINK
Neither party is about Liberty unless it's one of their pet projects. I'm closer to fiscal Conservatism than Republican or Democrat, I don't care what people do in their bedrooms.- "If it neither breaks my legs nor picks my pocket, then what difference is it to me."
I believe in God but I don't want to shove it down others throats.
I'm against the Patriot Act because it infringes on ALL of our Rights. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.". The Great Experiment is all but over.

jerwin · Aug 1, 2016

American Renaissance? Oh my.

They like Trump. Read the comments if you dare.

Hellhammer · Aug 2, 2016

Please continue discussion here as the topic is more or less identical

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads...epublican-party-is-white-nationalism.1985709/

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