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Category Archives: Republicans
What Might A Republican Platform Look Like If It Aligned With Reality?
If John J. Mearsheimer’s premises are correct that human behavior is governed by innate tribal sentiments and childhood value infusions, that abstract reason is a weak secondary tool, and that the international arena is an unyielding great power competition, the … Continue reading
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The Anthropology of the Republican Party
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Clarifying Republican vs Democratic Moral Hierarchies
David Pinsof argues that political ideologies function as coalition-building tools where moral principles serve as convenient cover for the raw pursuit of status and group interest. Both parties claim to follow sacred values, yet they selectively apply these values to … Continue reading
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The Journey From The Tea Party To MAGA
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would say the Tea Party to MAGA shift was not an ideological evolution but a coalition re-sorting driven by a change in who counted as allies and enemies. Tea Party phase. The Tea Party formed around … Continue reading
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Common Republican Misconceptions About Donald Trump
A friend says: One of the bigger misconceptions among the Republican critics of Trump is the assertion that had the Republicans nominated anyone other than Trump that candidate would be cruising to victory over Hillary Clinton. Aside from the scandals … Continue reading
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WP: Donald Trump is the ultimate Republican repudiation of Jack Kemp’s legacy
I don’t think Jack Kemp left much of a legacy to repudiate. His tax cuts were largely undone when the Democrats under Clinton took power. What exactly is his legacy? He lost his race for the Republican presidential nomination in … Continue reading
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Republicans Need New Intellectuals
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Part of the problem is that the nationalist, isolationist & race realist ideas are too close to common sense to signal elite intellectualism. If the regular folk are saying X, the intelligentsia must distinguish themselves … Continue reading
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Republican Establishment is increasingly prepared to lose with Cruz than hand the party to Trump
From Politico: “People think we lose with Cruz, but we don’t lose everything,” said the operative, who opposes Trump and asked to speak anonymously. “He’s still a real Republican. We don’t lose the House and Senate with Cruz. We don’t … Continue reading
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Democrats Are The Black Party, Republicans Are The White Party
Steve Sailer wrote in 2009: Two weeks ago, I noted that the Republican Party has been digging itself an ever deeper electoral hole by tolerating (when not exacerbating) the lax immigration policies of the last four-plus decades. These caused demographic … Continue reading
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Republicans Embrace The Sailer Strategy
Steve Sailer writes: As I pointed out right after the 2012 election, Romney-Ryan did very poorly with blue-collar whites in the numerous states around the Great Lakes that the GOP lost fairly narrowly in the Electoral College. I noted on … Continue reading
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