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Considering Trump has embraced socialism for the rich and an attack of free markets, while remaining firmly anti science and anti progress, can anyone be surprised?
While talking about the rise of economic populism on both the left and right in the United States, Will lamented the decline of traditional conservative belief in the free market.
He also warned that the Republican Party and its embrace of President Donald Trump was doing massive damage and all but guaranteeing that young Americans would flock toward Democrats for years to come.
“Young people have made up their mind about the Republican Party, that it’s kind of the dumb party,” he said. “These are the same young people who say they have warm feelings about socialism, but all they mean by that is that socialism means everyone being socialable and being nice to one another. They haven’t thought it through.”
Will then claimed that many young people, despite espousing favorable opinions of socialism, are nonetheless wary of the government — but he doubted the GOP could do anything to capitalize on these feelings.
“The same people who are suspicious — who like socialism — are suspicious of government so, I think that they’re uninformed at this point,” he said. “But the Republican Party is doing its very best to drive them away permanently.”
All votes count the same and the number of takers will continue to outgrow the number of makers. So it will be impossible to win elections once we are outnumbered.
Both parties (ie the majority of the country) have a good number of "dumb" people. Some of them even get elected to public office. Its destroying the financial and social stability of the country.
I definitely think the country is drifting left as the population ages but that doesn't guarantee victory for the Democrats unless they can get the young people to vote. So far they haven't really been successful at that so I can't say for sure the GOP is doomed as a result.
It's shocking to me, but Trump remains popular with a large percentage of the population. He's right that conservatives have largely abandoned free markets in favor in protectionism, and in some cases outright socialism.
loyalty and devotion to a nation especially : a sense of national consciousness (see consciousness sense 1c) exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups
They are the dumb party. But there seemingly are more and more dumb people out there, so they're probably okay.
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