Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time
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I kind see the change started around the time the Tea Party got going.
The Tea Party movement as a reaction to the Obama administration has changed the GOP a lot. Big difference between McCain as the standard bearer and Trump as the standard bearer.
In contrast the Occupy Wall Street and BLM movements have not changed the Democratic Party all that much, or at least not as abruptly. Not that big a difference between Clinton as the standard bearer and Biden as the standard bearer.
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Democratic Party has indeed changed too. Bill Clinton went from standard bearer to self-canceled in a decade. I do agree that the establishment has managed to maintain a grip, however tenuous.
The main enabling force behind both is the same.
(But damn it, from here on out every comment will be about which party got worse faster, my thread stillborn)
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Same person he was then as he is today? Unfortunately yes, but it really points to how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then.
The Brad
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Same person he was then as he is today? Unfortunately yes, but it really points to how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then.
@lufins-dad said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then
They seem to be more than capable of overlooking quite a lot of things now, too.
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Same person he was then as he is today? Unfortunately yes, but it really points to how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then.
@lufins-dad said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
Same person he was then as he is today? Unfortunately yes, but it really points to how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then.
I don't know much about him back then, and I could not find the video the tweet talks about, so what was overlooked back then?
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@lufins-dad said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then
They seem to be more than capable of overlooking quite a lot of things now, too.
@doctor-phibes said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
@lufins-dad said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then
They seem to be more than capable of overlooking quite a lot of things now, too.
Lol
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@lufins-dad said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
Same person he was then as he is today? Unfortunately yes, but it really points to how much Conservatives were willing to overlook back then.
I don't know much about him back then, and I could not find the video the tweet talks about, so what was overlooked back then?
He was pretty liberal for a Republican governor, because he had to be because it was Massachusetts. He was the driving force behind the blue print for Obamacare, getting Romneycare or whatever it was, going in his state.
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He was pretty liberal for a Republican governor, because he had to be because it was Massachusetts. He was the driving force behind the blue print for Obamacare, getting Romneycare or whatever it was, going in his state.
@kincaid said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
He was the driving force behind the blue print for Obamacare, getting Romneycare or whatever it was, going in his state.
Then he had to turn around and say "Obamacare bad" when he competed in the 2012 Republican primary because by that time the GOP base's mantra was to repeal Obamacare.
In a more rational world, a governor who put together a healthcare framework that later became the healthcare framework for the entire nation would have proudly owned that achievement.
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@kincaid said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
He was the driving force behind the blue print for Obamacare, getting Romneycare or whatever it was, going in his state.
Then he had to turn around and say "Obamacare bad" when he competed in the 2012 Republican primary because by that time the GOP base's mantra was to repeal Obamacare.
In a more rational world, a governor who put together a healthcare framework that later became the healthcare framework for the entire nation would have proudly owned that achievement.
@axtremus said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
@kincaid said in Interesting metric for how the GOP has changed over time:
He was the driving force behind the blue print for Obamacare, getting Romneycare or whatever it was, going in his state.
Then he had to turn around and say "Obamacare bad" when he competed in the 2012 Republican primary because by that time the GOP base's mantra was to repeal Obamacare.
That he did.
