Democrats - Twenty Years Ago

[mommydi]

Do you ever feel like the Republican Party today is more like the Democrat Party of 2 decades ago? Also, look at this new administration which are made up of previous Democrats - Trump, Gabbard, RFKJr, and more. It's ok to change parties - don't get me wrong - and I'd change to a Democrat in a split second if that party aligned more with my personal beliefs than the GOP - but they sure don't.
It gets me that libs are crying about how awful the GOP is now, when the GOP of today is a lot like the Dems of 1990s.

Look what Hillary said back then-
https://x.com/DisrespectedThe/status/1883379065320828951

[Jaime]

That conservative woman in the video looks a lot a like a younger Hillary Clinton!

[Wycliffes_Shillelagh]

Well yeah.  The DNC moved WAAAAY to the left, and simultaneously stopped serving its key demographic - the working class.

The working class now votes Republican.  The Democrats are the party of higher (mis?)education

[Dave...]

 

If memory serves me right, when Trump ran the first time, it was McCain and all the young republican hopefuls who were basically leading the charge. The big question was who was going to take the reigns now that George W. had finished his two terms. Rubio was the front runner, but in my opinion, his stance on the border was his Achilles heel. Would he hold ground on that, or change his mind? In my mind, he was otherwise the best new young republican to take the reigns.

Anyways, most if not all of the polls, and general conservative public opinion was that we needed to move back towards a more conservative base. The idea was that had we drifted too much to the left already. Based on the polls and public opinion, that was the winning formula. And later Trump would prove it.

Then McCain publicly stated that we needed to move more to the left to win the next election. Remember that? Most people were outraged. It was typical politics. The McCain RINO had emerged from the brush ready to destroy our base camp. Adding insult to injury, all the young hopefuls repeated the same garbage. A lot of young careers were ruined on that day.

So, along comes Trump. He probably wouldn't have otherwise won the election, but McCain and all the young'uns served up a perfect lob pitch to be smacked out of the park by Trump. He simply came into the running telling the truth and speaking to people as if they were people, not mindless useful idiots.

In Short, Trump won as a rebuke to the Republican party, that being McCain and the young'uns, for publicly stating that we needed to move to the left to win the election. That really infuriated people.

So even then we knew of the attempt to move us to the left.

   

[Jaime]

To me Trump is the perfect "3rd party candidate" WITHIN the ranks of the 2nd party, taking advantage of the points made here to successfully renovate the second party while exposing the Establishment Uniparty as the charade it IS, as a sinister illusion of choice.

[mommydi]

To me Trump is the perfect "3rd party candidate" WITHIN the ranks of the 2nd party, taking advantage of the points made here to successfully renovate the second party while exposing the Establishment Uniparty as the charade it IS, as a sinister illusion of choice.

100% Jaime!