Democrats, Can We Agree?
lord_pabulum said:
drummerboy said:
didn't know where to post this, so here it is.
A prominent Republican intellectual finally lets out the Republican secret - that the base is racist.
What a shock.
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12256510/republican-party-trump-avik-roy
You need to better than posting a Vox link. Remember Vox implored "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot."
It's not just a "vox link". It's the words and thoughts of a prominent Republican, which you would know if you had bothered to read it rather than dismiss it out of hand.
Just saying "Vox link" is like saying, "Oh, Huffington Post". It's a meaningless dismissal. These are websites that carry pieces by different authors. A meaningful comment would require checking who the author is.
I hadn't heard of Mr. Roy, either, so looked him up.
"Avik Roy is a former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is also the opinion editor at Forbes, and has advised Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on policy. In 2015, Roy was a senior advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry; in 2012, he served as a health care policy advisor to Mitt Romney."
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/expert/avik-roy
Probably not someone who I would agree with politically, but interesting as a witness to the attitudes he describes in that article.
It's hard to be wrong as often as Kristol is. In politics there should be a Kristol corollary to the Costanza Rule.
Are you just free associating here, or were you trying to say something? Cause at first it seemed like you had a problem with people encouraging violence - and I agreed with you, and pointed out that Vox did too. Hence their firing of the editor. But now you're just kind of randomly naming organizations, so I must have been wrong about your initial point.