Until last year, I was as Republican as you could get. My family had belonged to the GOP since the 1850s, and both my grandfathers labored in local Republican politics. I started volunteering for the party nearly a half century ago, handing out Nixon pamphlets in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at the age of 13. I went on to work for Republican politicians in the New York State Legislature and both houses of Congress. And for a couple of years, I served in the research department of the Republican National Committee.<\/p>\n
But early in the morning of Nov. 9, shortly after Trump claimed victory in the presidential election, I took out my laptop and changed my registration to independent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, I changed my registration to “Independent” years before when the Republicans started acting like Democrats while they ran the Congress. When they began telling us about “compassionate Conservatism” and spent like drunken sailors while feathering their own political nests instead of slashing wasteful spending. While I’m not particularly enamored with the Trump Administration, at least his policies have a basis in Conservatism, even though that isn’t his political stance. He ran on a platform of smaller, less intrusive government and that’s what put him in office. <\/p>\n
I’m not surprised that a California professor liked a more liberal Republican Party, but you’d think he’d be smart enough to not make himself a target with a disingenuous piece of trash like the one he allowed USAToday to publish.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t disparage those who voted for Trump. Economic change has left millions of working Americans behind. They think that an increasingly affluent professional class pushes them around. Voting for Trump was a way to push back. I get it. My father was a milkman in a college town. It was full of people with advanced degrees who looked down on people like us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So now he’s one of the snooty pointy-headed residents of his hometown looking down on the rest of his, as if him dumping a bunch of words on paper is going to shame us into voting for the next Democrat statist to run for the office.<\/p>\n
Kneeling to Trump, some [Republicans] are reversing long-held positions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While opposing Trump, some faux-Republicans are ignoring the policies that Republicans traditionally represented. They don’t like his hair, they don’t like his super-model wife, they don’t like the way he talks, all the while ignoring what he’s saying…ignoring what Americans are saying. That’s why they will lose again in two years and four years down the road of this journey – the American Experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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