Dictatorship and the 2024 Republican Party Platform

[Axtremus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/politics/trump-gop-platform-convention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E0.W6On.FZ3oY7vM0psX

Short version: Trump's team wrote the whole thing and got the delegates to rubber stamp it. No input from delegates, no debate, no amendment. Delegates' electronic devices were confiscated upon arrival, no outside communication. Devices were only returned after the delegates had "approved" the platform.

[jon-nyc]

Nice.

[Jolly]

Now, tell us about how the Dems fix their primaries.

Bernie Sanders awaits your answer...

[jon-nyc]

Yeah, whattabout that?

[Jolly]

It's called politicians exerting political power.

Pardon my shocked face.

[jon-nyc]

The new platform softened language on abortion, excised old language referring obliquely to gay conversion therapy and culled a section about reducing a national debt that Mr. Trump had increased by nearly $8 trillion during his term in office.

Mr. Trump also stressed that he did not want to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Instead, the document contains a vague statement open to interpretation: “Republicans will promote a Culture that values the Sanctity of Marriage.” One person involved in the process recalled Mr. Trump saying privately: “Sanctity of marriage. Don’t define it.”

[Jolly]

Again, big tent politics.

Trump wants a populist, majority party with a conservative lean. That's only been apparent for several years now. He's exerting his political power to achieve that.

[Copper]

First, he has to get elected.

[Jolly]

I think he's trying to do that...

[Horace]

Great leaders gonna lead greatly.