Support for unions. Raising minimum wage. Abortion rights. Additional corporate taxes. Labor. Domestic populism. Decrying the “corporate elite". The harms of right to work. Focus on the multi-ethnic working-class. Cessation of military interventionism.Some have called it "a full on frontal assault on conservatism"See how trump and Vance have radically revolutionized the Republican party.https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/17/rnc-republican-party-transformation-maga-00168933A new kind of Republican Party is forming at the RNCThe GOP is dramatically transforming. Just listen carefully to the RNC.A new kind of Republican Party is revealing itself at its national convention.All the markers of a MAGA jamboree are on display, from hulking Donald Trump iconography inside the convention hall to rhinestone Trump cowboy hats and red Trump-Vance placards.But look closer and the party is changing — increasingly embracing economic populism at home and isolationism abroad, shifting its decadeslong position on abortion and not only leery of, but hostile to, certain business interests.Trump’s newly announced running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, has said that the GOP is in a “late Republican period,” and the party needs to “get pretty wild, and pretty far out there.”And that’s exactly what’s unfolding in Milwaukee. It wasn’t just Trump’s selection of Vance, the opponent of Ukraine aid who once said “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” It was also the party’s adoption of a slimmed down abortion platform and the criticisms of corporations it heard on the RNC floor.It’s the result of a confluence of economic, demographic and cultural changes — including a newly ascendant labor movement, which the GOP finds itself increasingly attracted to, at least nominally. Together, those forces have only accelerated the GOP’s flirtation with a renovation of the party.
“I think what we’re witnessing now is a full on frontal assault on conservatism,” said Marc Short, who served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence from 2019 to 2021, who is so estranged from this new version of the party that he was advised to skip the convention. “And you can look at the platform walking away from issues like life and traditional marriage, embracing tariffs across the board, but I feel like yesterday and last night went a step further when you have speakers that are basically saying NATO was at fault for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and referring to job creators as ‘corporate pigs’ and denouncing national right to work.”He said, “That’s an enormous departure from where our party has been and I don’t think it’s a prescription for success.”Perhaps most shocking to some more traditionalist Republicans was the fiery speech from International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien — the first Teamster to speak at an RNC in its 121-year history. In his remarks, he trespassed on traditional economic conservatism, decrying the “corporate elite,” outlining the harm of Right to Work laws, which make it harder to organize and have been passed mostly in GOP-run states, and called the Chamber of Commerce “unions for big business.”David Urban, the former 2016 Trump campaign adviser, told POLITICO he looked at his CNN co-host David Axelrod, the former Barack Obama adviser, and asked him while off air: “Am I at the right convention?”
O’Brien’s remarks left some watching — in the hall and from afar — nearly physically uncomfortable, even as they slowly began to embrace a new brand of Republican base voter.“I was starting to squirm a little bit on some of that stuff, but I also know how you blend that, and that’s what makes up my support,” said Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, who is running for governor and is one of the wealthiest members of Congress. “And that doesn’t mean you take the most outrageous stuff that he might have said, but you don’t dismiss some of the rest of it, and you find a new coalition.”Or, as Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio put it: “I think President Trump has made our party what it always should have been, which is a populist party rooted in conservative principles.”For years, the GOP has been undergoing a sea change as a working class party — all revolving around the organizing principle of America First. At times during his presidency, Trump reverted to more traditionalist GOP ideology on issues including tax cuts, which he cut in 2017. But it was his selection of Vance that could ultimately cement the party’s trajectory toward a different point on the horizon.“Vance was the most distinctive choice he could make, in part to send a signal: I think coverage has rightly captured what we are certainly hearing which is that the business community and Wall Street and so forth, are, are deeply dismayed and concerned — as they should be,” said Oren Cass, a former economic adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, and a close associate of Vance’s who spoke with him last week.In the coming years, Cass, the founder of the conservative think tank American Compass, a group aimed at developing a new center-right consensus on policy, predicted “a multi-ethnic, working-class conservatism as the foundation of an actual Republican Party that could achieve a durable governing majority.”
In Milwaukee, there have been vestiges of the old party in view, too. Nikki Haley, who championed a Reaganesque policy agenda during her presidential campaign received a smattering of boos as she strode on stage to speak on Tuesday night, even as Trump himself applauded.“We must not only be a unified party, we must also expand our party,” Haley said. “We are so much better when we are bigger. We are stronger when we welcome people into our party, when we have different backgrounds and experiences.”Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who ran to Trump’s right in the primary, also received boos. The reaction to both Haley and DeSantis showed that, even though both candidates critiqued Trump from different vantage points on policy, it’s Trump’s personality — not his policies — that most endears him to the base. And Trump and his allies are coaxing the Republican Party away from the old party orthodoxy even more than during his first term — at least, quite literally, on paper.The new GOP platform is the best example of this. The platform is now missing any mention of marriage being between one man and one woman, a longtime staple of party principles. Instead, it talks about promoting “a culture that values the sanctity of marriage” and “the foundational role of families,” in what has been largely hailed as a victory for pro-LGBTQ+ Republicans but a blow to the party’s socially conservative wing.“This is a British Tory platform,” said former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. “This is not a conservative platform. Trump is aiming right down the middle.”And then there is the matter of abortion. A contingent of anti-abortion delegates, citing the need to come together in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, dropped their fight against changes to the party platform that they argued backtracks on decades of GOP progress on the issue.
>>1316714Cool. If only they didn't support an insurrectionist dictator and criminal immunity for the man with the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet.
And most anti-abortion organizations have lined up behind the platform — largely because it mentions the 14th Amendment, which conservatives have long argued protects life beginning at conception. Still, the document reflects Trump’s leave-abortion-to-the-states approach in the post-Roe era, a position that leaves abortion broadly accessible in many states.Delegates to the convention are largely embracing the former president’s view. Kip Christianson, a delegate from Minnesota who sat on the platform committee, described himself as “pro-life” but acknowledges that’s not the position of his state, where abortion is legal until a fetus is viable.“This platform is a platform that is responsive and supportive of where America is actually at and where states like Minnesota are actually at. That’s all this is,” Christianson said.He was milling outside of the convention center Tuesday, where the evening programming was just kicking off.“We’re a big tent party,” he said.
>>1316718I guess the whole project 2025 fearporn was a flop, huh?
>>1316721please go on thinking that
>>1316714>Support for unionsTrump's first term was extremely anti worker and anti worker rights, meanwhile state Republican parties have constantly cracked down on unions and workers rights to the point that during a massive heat wave, Republicans are now repealing mandatory water breaks for employees working outdoors.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/second-trump-presidency-unions_n_6696a3b4e4b0a5fd8071a58dhttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/https://www.commondreams.org/news/florida-water-breaks>Raising Minimum WageRepublicans have been killing raising the minimum wage as soon as last yearhttps://lailluminator.com/2023/05/04/republicans-kill-10-minimum-wage-proposal-for-louisiana/>Abortion RightsWhile still pushing a national abortion law with the Comstock Act, which is supported by Trump's VP.https://www.vox.com/abortion/351678/the-comstock-act-the-long-dead-law-trump-could-use-to-ban-abortion-explained>Additional corporate taxesThey have to start taxing corporations to begin with, unless they're trying to claim tariffs are those taxes, which directly affect the poor and working class instead. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts-increased-tariffs.htmlLike Trump, the Republican platform is full of lies, if you want to see their real plans, you just need to look into Project 2025.https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-05_Peoples-Guide-Pro-2025.pdf
>>1316734>Trump's first term was extremely anti worker and anti worker rights,Meanwhile this term the leader of the teamsters union spoke at the RNC in support of trump.Read the article.
>>1316721Republican Party Platform=/=Heritage Foundation Plans
>>1316747Are you sure?
>>1316748So far, yes, that is what reality seems to indicate. They just officially made large numbers official policy during the RNC in direct opposition to your fearporn fantasies
>>1316748There's overlap in the people that make them, but yes. The Republican Party is a Political Party. The Heritage Foundation is the Thank Tank that The Republicans Party generally use when selecting cabinet members, advisors and talking points.
>>1316714>Support for unionsInviting a union rep to speak doesn't show support for unions any more than inviting Trump to speak showed support for Trump at the fucking Libertarian convention.You can't point to a single Republican position that would be pro-union and many are actively anti-union, eg right to work, rescheduling federal workers, cutting safety regulations, tort reforms to eliminate options for workers to sue employers and promotion of arbitration, destruction of the regulatory power of the NLRB, blocking the non-compete ban, tax cuts for the rich, constantly shitting on teachers unions and implementing more laws to make it harder for teachers to do their jobs, etc.
>>1316761>So farInteresting qualifier
>>1316744>Teamster president says there are far too many greedy corporations exploiting their workers and that America’s laws make it far too difficult for workers to unionize and get contracts that lift their pay and benefits.>Doesn't endorse Trump either.It's clear he's trying to curry favor with Trump assuming he's going to become president again and doesn't want the Teamsters wiped out by Trump's incoming Brownshirts, but once Trump gets a billion dollar bribe from corporations, expect as many labor laws as possible to be tossed.
>>1316769Republicans really believe Trump/Vance and the legislature aren’t going to cave to every political lobbyist that makes a significant campaign donation. Guess it tracks: Trump said he looks out for rural white Americans but literally didn’t do a single thing to help them; rural white Americans got all of their victories watching everyone else be pissed at trump.
project2025.org
>>1316767Tariffs on imports and domestic manufacturing is support to unions.
Things really aren't going well she the Democrats this year. Now it's the party of centrist populists vs the party of far left inflation radicals
>>1316768Are you an oracle? I'm not. I can only tell you what's happened so far in reality, not in your fantasies
>>1316943>Tariffs on importsHelp American businesses. Trickle down is a fucking meme.>But they lower unemploymentMotherfucker, the unemployment is rate is at 4.1% and beyond that the Republicans want to deport 11 million people.>and domestic manufacturing is support to unionsDomestic manufacturing WHAT you dumb motherfucker? Surely you aren't talking about manufacturing contracts, are you? The only federal expenditure for that the GOP is for is in the context of military spending. And fuck that bullshit, all it does is make everyone poorer except the execs, owners, and the corrupt Congressmen and military personnel involved in deciding who gets what contracts in exchange either for bribes now or jobs (bribes) later.And I guess vaccines when they fuck up a pandemic response.In summary, Republicans hate unions and anyone that doesn't know this is a braindead sea sponge.
This pushes democrats even further into the realm of radicalism and roots the GOP in centrist populism
>>1316949>In summary, Republicans hate unions and anyone that doesn't know this is a braindead sea spongeI'm surprised you were able to type that all out as a braindead sea sponge
>>1316949>he unemployment is rate is at 4.1%You'd have to be a retard or a boomer to believe this
>>1316943how? both give more power to domestic corporations not to unions.
>>1316986https://www.ncsl.org/labor-and-employment/national-employment-monthly-updatehttps://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdfare americans so uneducated they can't look it up themselves its 4.1% bozo
>>1316994>believing official gov't numbers in an election yearYou are the bozo here, bozo
>>1316998that i am for trusting you anon. (◕︿◕)
>>1317003>the gov't can't lie, thats illegal!How old are you anon?
It's almost as if they will say anything to get elected. Shocking. Vance will make a fine president from '29 - '37
>>1317010What are your thoughts on the leader of the teamsters union showing up and voicing his support?
>>1317006>thinks every entity is a liar, even the ones with no political affiliationAnon idk how to break it to you but you donezo
