Dude, Reagan suffocated the soul of the GOP. And Nixon before him. Back in the Eisenhower days when the Democrats were the racist party, they had some solid things to stand for, but those people are in the ground at this point, and have been for a long, long time.
A lot of the Democrats are shit, too. But the thought leaders of the Democratic Party are, by and large, the relatively decent ones. We’ve reformed (somewhat) since Clinton. The Republicans have been digging down to new levels of hell with every new generation for roughly 50 years now, and Nixon was already psychotically bad.
This. People who think that the Republican party has been honorable in recent memory haven’t been paying attention. There have been honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain, but the party as a whole has been little more than a cabal of grifters appealing to the worst parts of us with the sole purpose of enriching themselves and punishing the “other” in sociopathic glee. Trump didn’t start this. He just pulled off the mask and made it OK to speak and act openly.
honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain
L. O. L.
I don’t know if your definition of ‘honorable’ has a low ad bar, or if you’re just calling him ‘honorable’ in comparison to a flock of shit birds, but that statement is fucking laughable.
Dude, Reagan suffocated the soul of the GOP. And Nixon before him. Back in the Eisenhower days when the Democrats were the racist party, they had some solid things to stand for, but those people are in the ground at this point, and have been for a long, long time.
A lot of the Democrats are shit, too. But the thought leaders of the Democratic Party are, by and large, the relatively decent ones. We’ve reformed (somewhat) since Clinton. The Republicans have been digging down to new levels of hell with every new generation for roughly 50 years now, and Nixon was already psychotically bad.
This. People who think that the Republican party has been honorable in recent memory haven’t been paying attention. There have been honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain, but the party as a whole has been little more than a cabal of grifters appealing to the worst parts of us with the sole purpose of enriching themselves and punishing the “other” in sociopathic glee. Trump didn’t start this. He just pulled off the mask and made it OK to speak and act openly.
Didn’t McCain call his wife a harlot for playfully messing with his hair?
Edit: it was a trollop and the c word. I don’t know how I only remembered the mild insult
https://web.archive.org/web/20170120190529/http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/mccain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html#expand
You should check out the Behind the Bastards episode on him. He was not a swell dude, he just played one on TV.
L. O. L.
I don’t know if your definition of ‘honorable’ has a low ad bar, or if you’re just calling him ‘honorable’ in comparison to a flock of shit birds, but that statement is fucking laughable.
Dude. If you have dinner with Nazis, you’re probably a Nazi.
McCain had dinner with Nazis