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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: November 07, 2017, 03:04:16 PM »

I think the answer to this is pretty obvious, or should be...

Still, curious to read others' thoughts here.
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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2017, 05:42:38 PM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2017, 05:54:28 PM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?
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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2017, 06:24:19 PM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?

maybe in the 1976 primaries.


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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2017, 07:05:18 PM »

I don't know.  I get so tired of the news media calling establishment Republicans "moderates" when the majority of the GOP establishment is conservative, just not alt-right.  Certainly the party has not been unified since then, and ironically G Dub's a big reason for that.
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« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2017, 08:26:54 PM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?

maybe in the 1976 primaries.




The Bushes basically were the establishment between 1980 and the Tea Party era. Politicians that paid fealty to the Bushes like Boehner were rewarded. The Tea Party era overturned that order.
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« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2017, 08:42:55 PM »

There has never been a unified Republican or Democratic "establishment".
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« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2017, 08:51:39 PM »

There has never been a unified Republican or Democratic "establishment".

I'm sure that would be news to these people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Pioneer
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« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2017, 01:52:45 AM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?

maybe in the 1976 primaries.




The Bushes basically were the establishment between 1980 and the Tea Party era. Politicians that paid fealty to the Bushes like Boehner were rewarded. The Tea Party era overturned that order.


Reagan had the Vast majority of the endorsements during the 1980 primaries and I believe the establishment wanted Reagan to select Ford as the VP not Bush
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« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2017, 01:54:24 AM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?

maybe in the 1976 primaries.




The Bushes basically were the establishment between 1980 and the Tea Party era. Politicians that paid fealty to the Bushes like Boehner were rewarded. The Tea Party era overturned that order.


Reagan had the Vast majority of the endorsements during the 1980 primaries and I believe the establishment wanted Reagan to select Ford as the VP not Bush

Reagan was seen as a sort of middle-man between the base and the establishment (with his celebrity), they wanted a strong old guard establishment pick to be his VP for a reason. That's the role Bush played.
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« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2017, 03:54:00 AM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?

maybe in the 1976 primaries.




The Bushes basically were the establishment between 1980 and the Tea Party era. Politicians that paid fealty to the Bushes like Boehner were rewarded. The Tea Party era overturned that order.


Reagan had the Vast majority of the endorsements during the 1980 primaries and I believe the establishment wanted Reagan to select Ford as the VP not Bush

Reagan was seen as a sort of middle-man between the base and the establishment (with his celebrity), they wanted a strong old guard establishment pick to be his VP for a reason. That's the role Bush played.

Didnt the Establishment want Ford as the VP though.

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« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2017, 04:11:47 AM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?
Reagan from 1964 to 1980, Pat Buchanan, and Gingrich.
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2017, 10:07:01 AM »

^ Don't get me wrong though, the establishment still saw Reagan as being a qualified 2 term governor of the largest state with a moderate track record, they just didn't fully trust him based on his past rhetoric. At least the GOP establishment back then had standards, it wasn't anything like the Tea Party. You still had to pay your dues and earn your titles.
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« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2017, 07:10:18 PM »

I would say there was briefly during the period in between McCain's loss and the rise of the Tea Party in early 2009. During that brief period there was a general agreement that the Republican Party needed to change directions but then base rebelled. I would say the starting point of the Tea Party was February 2009.
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« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2017, 10:16:48 AM »

Republicans by-and-large were behind Romney from the spring of 2012 until Election Night.

Most Republicans, myself included, believed he was the guy who could take down Obama and repeal the ACA. This notion fell to pieces on November 7 of course, and I think that was the day Trumpism unofficially began.
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« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2017, 11:07:31 PM »

The establishment was pretty united in opposing Trump during the primaries. I think they were united behind Bush, McCain, and Romney too. The GOP establishment really isn't as ideologically puritanical as people think. Just support Israel, tax cuts, invading/bombing other countries, and mass immigration while never challenging the status quo and they like you (They would have preferred a Clinton presidency to Trump, but couldn't endorse her without it being political suicide - the base would never vote for them again).

The GOP base is much more divided, but has completely different views and priorities from the establishment, which only really has 20% of republicans or so in full support of it. The base is split on foreign policy and trade, mostly either hardcore social conservative christians or simply apathetic on social issues, anywhere from "taxation is theft" to "we need more infrastructure spending," generally in favor of decreasing immigration, and absolutely unconditionally against amnesty.
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« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2017, 12:13:30 PM »

Republicans by-and-large were behind Romney from the spring of 2012 until Election Night.

Most Republicans, myself included, believed he was the guy who could take down Obama and repeal the ACA. This notion fell to pieces on November 7 of course, and I think that was the day Trumpism unofficially began.

The establishment was pretty united in opposing Trump during the primaries. I think they were united behind Bush, McCain, and Romney too. The GOP establishment really isn't as ideologically puritanical as people think. Just support Israel, tax cuts, invading/bombing other countries, and mass immigration while never challenging the status quo and they like you (They would have preferred a Clinton presidency to Trump, but couldn't endorse her without it being political suicide - the base would never vote for them again).

The GOP base is much more divided, but has completely different views and priorities from the establishment, which only really has 20% of republicans or so in full support of it. The base is split on foreign policy and trade, mostly either hardcore social conservative christians or simply apathetic on social issues, anywhere from "taxation is theft" to "we need more infrastructure spending," generally in favor of decreasing immigration, and absolutely unconditionally against amnesty.

There was a GOP Establishment until Trump was elected.  Trump's election changed everything. 

By the beginning of the 2016 political season, the GOP Establishment was united on the following:

***Reducing the overall size of the Federal Government (and government in general)

***Opposition to all tax increases, and advancement of all tax cut proposals

***Continuing military presence in the Middle East

***Continued liberal immigration policies, coupled with tough talk but no action behind it

***Continued expansion of "Free Trade"

***Verbal support of Evangelicals, coupled with minimal advancement of their policy objectives

Trump's hostile takeover of the GOP reflects a form of minority rule, but it came about because an entire faction of the party (the Perot-type Republicans) had been pushed aside for decades.  Most of them had returned to the GOP after 1996 (Perot, himself, endorsed GWB on the eve of the 2000 Election.) but their brand of politics was generally found unwelcome in the GOP.  This was aided, in part, by Republicans opposing aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy.  (Eric Cantor got caught supporting aid if they could cut aid for projects elsewhere; that didn't help the GOP with the middle class much.)  The GOP Establishment was united, but they were united in proposals that were viewed as blatantly for the further increase of cream for the richest. 

Trump hasn't created a "New Establishment" yet, but he HAS redefined the GOP to the point where it can be a big tent party again.  No longer are Presidential contests a contest to see who the "truest conservative" is.  Indeed, Trump doesn't describe himself as a "conservative" (and he's not), and doesn't rail at "liberals" either.  The GOP Establishment had, prior to 2016, come to an accomodation with its Movement Conservatives.  Trump's rise, and the rise of his partisans, has, unanticipatedly, shuffled the deck for the GOP.
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« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2017, 12:24:12 PM »

Did anyone even use the word "Establishment" with the GOP between the 1964 convention and the Tea Party?

maybe in the 1976 primaries.




The Bushes basically were the establishment between 1980 and the Tea Party era. Politicians that paid fealty to the Bushes like Boehner were rewarded. The Tea Party era overturned that order.


Reagan had the Vast majority of the endorsements during the 1980 primaries and I believe the establishment wanted Reagan to select Ford as the VP not Bush

Reagan was seen as a sort of middle-man between the base and the establishment (with his celebrity), they wanted a strong old guard establishment pick to be his VP for a reason. That's the role Bush played.

Didnt the Establishment want Ford as the VP though.

In the end, such an arrangement couldn't possibly work. 

The Eastern Establishment was more real at that time, and they insisted Bush be on the ticket.  As he was the second-place finisher in the primaries, that wasn't unexpected.
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« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2017, 08:03:42 PM »

Republicans by-and-large were behind Romney from the spring of 2012 until Election Night.

Most Republicans, myself included, believed he was the guy who could take down Obama and repeal the ACA. This notion fell to pieces on November 7 of course, and I think that was the day Trumpism unofficially began.

The establishment was pretty united in opposing Trump during the primaries. I think they were united behind Bush, McCain, and Romney too. The GOP establishment really isn't as ideologically puritanical as people think. Just support Israel, tax cuts, invading/bombing other countries, and mass immigration while never challenging the status quo and they like you (They would have preferred a Clinton presidency to Trump, but couldn't endorse her without it being political suicide - the base would never vote for them again).

The GOP base is much more divided, but has completely different views and priorities from the establishment, which only really has 20% of republicans or so in full support of it. The base is split on foreign policy and trade, mostly either hardcore social conservative christians or simply apathetic on social issues, anywhere from "taxation is theft" to "we need more infrastructure spending," generally in favor of decreasing immigration, and absolutely unconditionally against amnesty.

There was a GOP Establishment until Trump was elected.  Trump's election changed everything. 

By the beginning of the 2016 political season, the GOP Establishment was united on the following:

***Reducing the overall size of the Federal Government (and government in general)

***Opposition to all tax increases, and advancement of all tax cut proposals

***Continuing military presence in the Middle East

***Continued liberal immigration policies, coupled with tough talk but no action behind it

***Continued expansion of "Free Trade"

***Verbal support of Evangelicals, coupled with minimal advancement of their policy objectives

Trump's hostile takeover of the GOP reflects a form of minority rule, but it came about because an entire faction of the party (the Perot-type Republicans) had been pushed aside for decades.  Most of them had returned to the GOP after 1996 (Perot, himself, endorsed GWB on the eve of the 2000 Election.) but their brand of politics was generally found unwelcome in the GOP.  This was aided, in part, by Republicans opposing aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy.  (Eric Cantor got caught supporting aid if they could cut aid for projects elsewhere; that didn't help the GOP with the middle class much.)  The GOP Establishment was united, but they were united in proposals that were viewed as blatantly for the further increase of cream for the richest. 

Trump hasn't created a "New Establishment" yet, but he HAS redefined the GOP to the point where it can be a big tent party again.  No longer are Presidential contests a contest to see who the "truest conservative" is.  Indeed, Trump doesn't describe himself as a "conservative" (and he's not), and doesn't rail at "liberals" either.  The GOP Establishment had, prior to 2016, come to an accomodation with its Movement Conservatives.  Trump's rise, and the rise of his partisans, has, unanticipatedly, shuffled the deck for the GOP.

Agreed on all counts
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