It’s less of a tragedy for a surgeon to amputate a couple of gangrenous appendages than to allow the patient to perish. In the case of the Republican Party, the gangrene is pervasive, generated from the head. Fortunately a political party is not a person and much of what is pruned can grow back healthier, if not fully ready to actually help govern. Yes we need a pair of complementary parties. (Can’t have more than two, unless the Electoral College goes away, but that is for a different discussion.) Killing off the Republican Party doesn’t mean banishing all or even most current republicans, but definitely shunning the leadership permanently. Those capable of being rehabilitated should be. The remaining cultists who can shed their trumpian stupor might be able to redirect their passions and efforts toward a truly patriotic, combined-competitive/cooperative and civically generative enterprise. It cannot be a revived ‘Republican Party’. After an epic defeat in November, the Republican Party needs to follow the fate of the National Socialist and Ba’ath parties and be buried in the sands of history.
There would still be checks and balances if the Republican Party were to be dissolved. Some of the current members of the party would form a new political party (or parties), similar to the way that the Republican Party was formed in the mid-1850s from the remnants of the Whig Party (the major opposition to the Democratic Party) and ex-Free Soil Party members. The Democratic Party was formerly known as the Democratic-Republican Party of Jefferson and Madison. Madison left the conservative Federalist Party (the first political party of the United States) to create this new party. The modern Democratic Party was founded in the 1820s, after the Democratic-Republican Party splintered over the choice of a successor to President James Monroe.
I personally would like to see an end to the current party duopoly, and the institution of some form of rank choice voting. Multiple political parties are not a bad thing in my opinion.
For what it's worth (not much, admittedly ), "Fuehrer" in German, bastardized to "Fuhrer" in English, does not mean "Father" in German; it means "Leader". That said, Trump may think he's the "Father of His People", but he's just the self-anointed leader of something called "MAGA", which is merely an acronym for "Make America Great Again". Looked at in that light, and filtering out the obnoxiousness of Trump himself, it's hard to see anything wrong with the words themselves.
It’s less of a tragedy for a surgeon to amputate a couple of gangrenous appendages than to allow the patient to perish. In the case of the Republican Party, the gangrene is pervasive, generated from the head. Fortunately a political party is not a person and much of what is pruned can grow back healthier, if not fully ready to actually help govern. Yes we need a pair of complementary parties. (Can’t have more than two, unless the Electoral College goes away, but that is for a different discussion.) Killing off the Republican Party doesn’t mean banishing all or even most current republicans, but definitely shunning the leadership permanently. Those capable of being rehabilitated should be. The remaining cultists who can shed their trumpian stupor might be able to redirect their passions and efforts toward a truly patriotic, combined-competitive/cooperative and civically generative enterprise. It cannot be a revived ‘Republican Party’. After an epic defeat in November, the Republican Party needs to follow the fate of the National Socialist and Ba’ath parties and be buried in the sands of history.
There would still be checks and balances if the Republican Party were to be dissolved. Some of the current members of the party would form a new political party (or parties), similar to the way that the Republican Party was formed in the mid-1850s from the remnants of the Whig Party (the major opposition to the Democratic Party) and ex-Free Soil Party members. The Democratic Party was formerly known as the Democratic-Republican Party of Jefferson and Madison. Madison left the conservative Federalist Party (the first political party of the United States) to create this new party. The modern Democratic Party was founded in the 1820s, after the Democratic-Republican Party splintered over the choice of a successor to President James Monroe.
I personally would like to see an end to the current party duopoly, and the institution of some form of rank choice voting. Multiple political parties are not a bad thing in my opinion.
For what it's worth (not much, admittedly ), "Fuehrer" in German, bastardized to "Fuhrer" in English, does not mean "Father" in German; it means "Leader". That said, Trump may think he's the "Father of His People", but he's just the self-anointed leader of something called "MAGA", which is merely an acronym for "Make America Great Again". Looked at in that light, and filtering out the obnoxiousness of Trump himself, it's hard to see anything wrong with the words themselves.