![]() ![]() Nor did Republicans in Congress seize the reins when Trump came into office. Trump made none of that happen, aside from a few miles of expensive fence. Recall that Trump’s 2016 campaign was full of punchy lines: balancing the budget, repealing the Affordable Care Act, replacing it with a forever-TBD universal health plan, reshoring manufacturing, ending the trade deficit, building a beautiful border wall, making America great again. Norm Ornstein: I’ve witnessed the decline of the Republican Party And understanding how Republicans moved past policy requires looking not just at the negative space they left behind, but the positive space they have chosen to fill. The answer lies with the party as well as the president this development is due to decades-long demographic, cultural, and political trends, not just the makeup of the Trump administration. T his summer, I asked politicians, think-tank staffers, electoral consultants, political scientists, and pollsters why the Republican Party has felt so small, so devoid of vanward ideas to help Americans. It is also a sign that American democracy is in peril. This is not just proof that a man as interested in his own image as he is uninterested in briefing books should not be president. With the planet burning, the virus killing, the economy collapsing, and millions of Americans preparing to vote, the country’s leading political cabal has moved into a queasy post-policy space: Its aperture has narrowed to just a few issues its desire to try to pass major, proactive legislation has withered. (Put differently: It no-platformed itself.) And Republican leadership has gone dark on a huge swath of issues: balancing the budget, reforming entitlement programs, tackling climate change, improving public education, reducing student-loan debt, and ameliorating racial inequalities-as well as getting the country through the pandemic and out of the recession. Breaking with precedent, the party decided against producing an original platform for the 2020 convention. The GOP in general is remarkably quiet on how it would govern and what it seeks to accomplish in the coming years. Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes: Trump is campaigning on a platform of abject failure “Partner with Other Nations to Clean Up our Planet’s Oceans,” “Build the World’s Greatest Infrastructure System”: These are not plans so much as slogans, albeit ones that aren’t particularly catchy. There’s just a list of bullet points that the campaign put out on the eve of the convention. It contains no detailed forward-facing policy section, no vision of how to recover from the pandemic recession, no projection of a post-coronavirus future. ![]() It offers a threadbare recounting of his supposed accomplishments from his first term and a selection of festive collectibles. Trump campaign’s website provides no clearer message. You don’t have to drop bombs on everybody. An idiot like Bolton, all he wanted to do is drop bombs on everybody. … Now I know everybody, and I have great people in the administration. All of a sudden, I’m president of the United States. I’ve always said that, but the word experience is a very important word. I always say talent is more important than experience. The commander in chief’s answer: “You know, the word experience is still good. In June, the Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump to name his top-priority agenda items for his second term at a town hall held in Green Bay, Wisconsin. W hat does the Republican Party want? Although Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has shifted into full, strange force with an empty 2020 convention, it is a hard question to answer. ![]()
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