Collectively, the two parties make up a political dialectic that has turned toxic for America
The result is a mismatch.
Not all Republican pols wuss-out--just most of them.
Some, particularly among the Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives, resist the onslaught of the far-left Democratic Party. But among Republicans in the House, they're the exception, not the rule.
Likewise, not all Democrats have gone stark-raving mad in their hatred of President Trump. Though it's hard to find any who don't tacitly support their colleagues with silence.
Democrats play offense. They attack. Supremacy is their goal.
Republicans play defense. They demur. Survival satisfies them.
Collectively, the two parties make up a political dialectic that has turned toxic for America. That toxicity finds the nation's Chief Executive fighting against the Democratic Party and its allies, with little help from his own party.
Trump is pitted against the Democrat pols in the House and Senate, the entire media and half of the FOX News "on-air talent," plus a group of GOP Trump-hating pols.
Anti-Trump elephants
Anti-Trump elephants include, to name a few:
Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (now a FOX board member who is now trying to convince the other half of FOX to also distance itself from Trump);
U.S. Senator Willard Romney (who failed to win the Presidency by being a nice guy);
Former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (who, appropriately, heralds from Snowflake, Arizona);
Fred Barnes (who works for Bill Kristol and, therefore, is required to offer tepid support, at most, for Trump);
Senator Susan Collins (Maine, who kept the nation in suspense about whether she'd support Judge Kavanaugh);
Karl Rove (still shocked that Trump won); and,
Bill Kristol (even more shocked than Rove, and Hillary).
Focusing on Romney:On October 4, 2019, he tweeted this: "By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling."
Mittens wasn't "appalled" during his campaign against Obama's second term in 2012 when Democrats accused him of torturing puppies, cutting off a gay boy's hair, being anti-female, and wanting to put blacks in chains. He responded silently, with his half-smile--pacifist that he is.
Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor, who posts at Instapundit, three years ago defined the appeal of Trump to supporters that emerged from the Tea Party:
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"It [the Tea Party] was hopeful and enthusiastic, open to anyone--and the Left treated it like the KKK merged with radical anarchists. The Republicans took their support and generally did nothing.So, people tried something different. Romney was the ultimate nice-guy candidate. Unimpeachable ethics, a proven record of success, and moderate credentials. The Left chewed him up and spat him out.Thus, after you send in friendly folks with SUVs and pickups, then a philanthropist in a limo, might as well send in a tank. Trump refuses to just take it like a proper Republican; he's not a model of civility and noble citizenship; he's a brawler. This is why TEA Party conservatives are flocking to his banner."
And still are--flocking to his banner.
It's not by accident that a portrait of President Andrew Jackson hangs in the Oval Office today.
The two Presidents have much in common. In an article in The Daily Signal by Jarrett Stepman, entitled 'Here's How Andrew Jackson Stood Up to Unaccountable 'Elites',' the author summarizes the three planks of Jackson's political philosophy:
"The first plank of Jackson's political philosophy was that entrenched interests in places of power can become dangerous to the liberties of the American people.
The second major plank of Jacksonianism was an intense opposition to crony capitalism, the symbiotic relationship between big government and big business, in which the government interferes with the free market to pick winners and losers.
The third essential plank of the Jacksonian agenda was an aggressive military and foreign posture in the world--something that differentiated Jackson from earlier members of his Jeffersonian Democrat party."
Jackson scandalized the political world of his time. But he was not without support from his own party.
While Trump's support from his own party remains where it began. Lukewarm.
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Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam assigned to the [strong]Phoenix Program[/strong]. He lives in Texas.
"By 1939, the French had been preparing for and were content to fight a total, defensive, attritional war. They could see no other way to defeat a German offensive; this was, after all, how they had emerged victorious from the terrible conflict twenty years earlier....[T]here was neither the strength of leadership nor the political stability to indulge in the sort of long-term thinking that was required for a bespoke, flexible military machine that perfectly fitted the country's strategic requirements" (pp. 382-383, "Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lighting War: France 1940," Lloyd Clark, Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2016.)
Collectively, GOP politicians are pacifists. They strive to be deft in the art of compromise.
Their opposition, the Democrat Party, presents a unified, aggressive front. They aim to win.
The two Presidents have much in common. In an article in The Daily Signal by Jarrett Stepman, entitled 'Here's How Andrew Jackson Stood Up to Unaccountable 'Elites',' the author summarizes the three planks of Jackson's political philosophy:
