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OPINION | The Republican Party after Trump: a recipe for survival

2020-07-09T05:55:29.027Z


The glorification of "Trumpism" and the celebration of ignorance, demagoguery and rampant cruelty is not a way to build a platform for the Republican Party and rule majorities to ...


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Editor's Note: Republican Charlie Dent is a former Pennsylvania US congressman who served as chair of the House of Representatives Ethics Committee from 2015 to 2016 and chair of the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans and Related Agencies from 2015 to 2018. He is a political commentator for CNN. The opinions expressed in this comment are yours. See more opinions at CNNe.com/opinion.

(CNN) - As the nation faces a pandemic, high unemployment and social unrest after the George Floyd murder, Americans desperately seek adult presidential leadership to straighten out the state ship and reassure them of its future.

Instead, Americans receive endless ravings from an indifferent president during this time of crisis. President Donald Trump is obsessed with what he perceives as personal offenses, petty grievances, slights, betrayals, and issues that are not relevant to the problems that cry out for serious responses and action.

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Worse yet, Trump has undermined his own administration's attempts to guide us through the pandemic with absurd comments contrary to what science shows about the potential benefits of injecting disinfectant and the dangers of excessive covid-19 testing. In addition, he plunged the country into a completely counterproductive debate by politicizing the use of masks.

This president has the attention span of a mosquito. Trump combines that with alarming ignorance about American history and complete disinterest in public policy matters. He has focused on defending military bases named by Confederate traitors and fighting against the publication of revealing books by his former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, and his niece, Mary Trump.

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Bolton's book is both surprising and unsurprising, exposing Trump's misdeeds, disability, and incompetence in the performance of his presidential duties. Mary Trump, whose book has yet to be released, tells readers everything they need to know in the title: Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man (Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family created the most dangerous man in the world ” ).

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Trump demands loyalty, but he does not inspire anyone outside his immediate family.

According to a recent poll from Monmouth University, the president's approval rating has dropped to 41%, and he is behind Joe Biden by 12 points. With numbers like these, the Republican Party must prepare for what could easily be a devastating election night on November 2.

This would likely end the Senate, just as Trump cost the House of Representatives to the Republican Party in 2018. The endless disruptive chaos and daily follies of the White House reflected in these sad numbers have finally caught up with the president.

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The Republican Party must return to the policies of inclusion and addition, not exclusion and subtraction. The demographic death march in which Trump led the Republican Party will result in an electoral train crash unless the party changes course. Rather than denying demographic reality, try to embrace it by reaching out and extending the appeal to groups beyond an ever-shrinking base.

Talking to black people, religious minorities, and the LGBTQ community will require a policy platform that is socially tolerant and sensible, that participates constructively on the international stage, and that supports reasonably regulated free markets.

Trump and "Trumpism" make it virtually impossible to achieve these goals with the constant politics and rhetoric of xenophobia, nativism, isolationism, protectionism, and sometimes nihilism. The glorification of "Trumpism" and the celebration of ignorance, demagoguery and rampant cruelty is not a way to build a party platform and rule majorities at the national level.

Social tolerance means accepting a diversity of views on issues such as reproductive rights, support for LGBTQ issues, immigration reform, and universal background checks.

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As one of the last two Republicans in the House of Representatives for abortion rights in 2018 (there are currently none), I understand the political consequences of not strictly adhering to Republican orthodoxy on issues beyond reproductive rights and planned parenthood. .

I deviated from the Republican Party doctrine on embryonic stem cell research; the scandalous federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case in 2005; the repeal of "Do not ask, Do not say"; equal marriage, non-discrimination and protection against hate crimes for the LGBTQ community; the legalization of the population of "dreamers" or dreamers ; and expressed opposition to unsustainable positions on the Obamacare disbursement and repeal.

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For these and other matters of doctrinal apostasy, self-styled Republican / Conservative purity police chiefs, who prefer excommunication to conversion, routinely called me RINO (Republican in Name Only), and capitulator. This even when the positions I held had broad support from the American people.

These self-righteous mockers have revealed themselves to be false in the Trump era and have abandoned any pretense of fidelity to principle or good character. Ratings, clicks, cash, and access trump everything else.

On the international stage, the Republican Party must re-engage with traditional democratic allies, isolate hostile foreign actors, and halt the assault on rule-based order and multilateral institutions led by the United States, however imperfect, that have advanced. largely the national interest in the past 75 years.

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Never in my life could I have imagined an American President so easily and ignominiously manipulated by a Russian autocrat to advance Russian national interests. Trump insults faithful democratic allies, weakens the intelligence community, attacks NATO and condemns the European Union.

More surprising is Trump's lack of response to Russian reward payments made to Taliban insurgents who killed US troops in Afghanistan, about which Trump said he was not even informed because intelligence was inconclusive. If this fails to offend Republican sensibilities, nothing will.

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Away from trade and climate change agreements will not solve the problems. The destruction of multilateral organizations and alliances does not protect American interests, since the world is not ordered by itself without American leadership and participation.

America First (“ America First ”), a term loaded with historical baggage, increasingly feels like a lonely United States. At a time when there is a bipartisan and international consensus on Chinese trade and human rights abuses, Trump is simply unable to organize friends, partners, and allies to address this common threat.

By isolating the United States and failing to uphold democratic values, containing China becomes an even more daunting and delicate task. The Republican Party must help the United States regain the mantle of global leadership. The alternative will be a destabilizing political vacuum at the global level full of nations and actors that do not share our values ​​or interests. Whatever its flaws, Pax Americana outperforms all other alternatives.

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With a Democratic Party increasingly displaced to the left under pressure from extreme elements, there is an opportunity for the Republican Party to speak to the country's political center. However, that requires serious and constructive engagement on issues like climate change, immigration, gun safety and other issues that are not traditionally of interest to Republicans.

As the far-left wing of the Democratic Party continues down a terrifying path openly hostile to an industrial and agricultural country with policies like the "New Green Deal" or the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, the time to commit and offer alternatives real politics is here and now.

Unfortunately, "Trumpism" is simply incompetent and unable to respond with the kind of leadership that this moment demands. Republicans meet with Abraham Lincoln's party leader defending Confederate statuary and waging a war on facemasks during a pandemic. I am deeply saddened that an electoral disaster may be the impetus to force a desperately needed course correction.

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After Mitt Romney's failed presidential run in 2012, the Republican National Committee wisely performed a very useful autopsy that identified ways to broaden the base of the Republican Party and attract new voters. The Republican Party dismissed those findings.

In its place, a program and platform tailored to the whims of a desperately uninformed and incapable individual took its place. If there is a 2020 Democratic election route, there will be no need for another Republican autopsy. Everyone already knows what, and who, killed the patient.

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