The Republican Party Is Over | Robert Reich

 

Robert Reich

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Once upon a time, the GOP stood for limited government. But now it stands only for Trump and his authoritarian neofascism. It demands total loyalty to him. The party’s demise is on full display at this week’s Republican National Convention.

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Todays GOP

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The End of the GOP

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Special Report

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WARNING: Trump ally's threat STUNS THE NATION

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A Super (Tuesday) Wake-Up Call Time to pour on the work DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY MAR 7 Credit: Getty Images The presidential campaign is well and truly underway. After Super Tuesday, Donald Trump now has most of the delegates he needs to win the nomination. And with Nikki Haley bowing out, he has no competition for the remaining ones. President Biden is similarly situated to secure his party’s nomination in the next few weeks. While this outcome was hardly in doubt, it is now, in effect, done.  The 2024 presidential race will be a rematch of 2020. Many people had hoped it wouldn’t be. But unless something politically extraordinary happens or heaven intervenes, it will be Biden versus Trump in a fight to the finish for the future of the country. For any and all Americans who want to preserve our democracy as we have known it, it’s time to pour on the work. I have added some analysis in this audio recording. Please take a listen. LISTEN NOW · 2:50 What’s at Stake Many in the media — including this writer — have been saying that a second Trump administration will mean the “end of democracy.” But what does that really mean, and has it been said so often that it’s losing its potency? Let’s spell it out, as a reminder to ourselves and others. Trump’s past behavior is telling: his seditious efforts to encourage a mob intent on taking over the U.S. Capitol, refusing the peaceful transfer of power, using the federal government to punish his enemies … the list is long. But it is what he promises to do if reelected that is most concerning and what makes a second Trump term even more dangerous than the first.   Trump’s actions have shown that he is an authoritarian. He wants to be the only one in charge by doing away with our system of governmental checks and balances on power, something the Founding Fathers were adamant about. A thing called Project 2025 is the brainchild of the far-right Heritage Foundation. The plan is predicated on the belief that the president of the United States has — or should have — absolute power over the executive branch. That includes all of the Cabinet offices and the nonpartisan civil servants whose job security has never in modern times been tied to the party in power. Project 2025 would recruit tens of thousands of self-described “conservatives” to replace those civil servants. The plan would go into effect on Inauguration Day if Trump is elected. Several constitutional crises were averted during his first term by people who put the country before the president’s demands — such as requiring complete loyalty to Trump, instead of to the Constitution. It’s likely that Trump has learned from his first term and will appoint even more personally and rabidly loyal people who will not stop him in similar situations. Trump’s jingoistic disdain for our allies may lead him to pull out of NATO, one the most effective alliances in world history and one that has saved countless lives.  Trump’s love of fellow authoritarians like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un should be a resounding alarm that he is a danger to our constitutional republic.  If he makes it back into the White House, he might never leave. That sounds hyperbolic, but it isn’t. He was the biggest perpetrator of the “big lie,” the false claim that he won in 2020. There is real concern he could suspend elections. He stacked the Supreme Court with anti-abortion jurists who reversed Roe v. Wade. While this was an unpopular decision with a majority of the country, Trump has bragged about it, taking credit for curtailing the rights of American women. And he won’t stop there. He wants a national 16-week abortion ban. He could very well have an opportunity to appoint another Supreme Court justice. In his first term, Trump reversed a multitude of Obama’s progressive initiatives. In a second term, he promises to go even further. He wants to deny funding for schools with vaccine mandates and roll back transgender protections. As a denier of science and facts, he would halt legislation to combat climate change. He would appoint judges who will do his bidding. We have already seen how effective that strategy has been. How Haley Helped Let’s look at what we can learn from Super Tuesday’s results and exit polls. Although Nikki Haley won just one state, Vermont, her average across the 15 contests was more than 25%. That’s a lot of people not voting for the presumed nominee. Trump’s difficulty persuading moderate, well-educated, suburban voters has not improved. He will also have a hard time with Republicans who know he lost in 2020. And three in 10 said they won’t vote for him if he is convicted of a crime. Also remember the MAGA base accounts for only about a third of all voters. He needs to convince a lot more people.  What Now Time to repeat and remind that the outcome is not predetermined. A lot can and will happen in the next eight months. Also remember that Americans have fought fascism and won. Americans have faced corrupt leaders and gotten rid of them. We survived, together, the worst days of the Great Depression. We rallied from the dark days of Hitler and a Japanese invasion. The American people — your neighbors, friends and family — together can defeat this threat to our democracy. But it takes work, lest we forget. To support Steady’s efforts to protect our democracy through the power of independent journalism, we would be pleased and honored if you would consider joining as a paid subscriber. It keeps Steady sustainable and accessible to all.

The truth about the economy that you’re not hearing Also: Please join me tomorrow for my very last class ever. I’ll be summarizing my “Wealth and Poverty” class, and also — in a way — summarizing my career as a teacher. Please join me, right here. ROBERT REICH JUL 6 We learned last Thursday that the U.S. economy grew at an annualized 2 percent rate in the first quarter of this year. That’s well above economists’ expectations of around 1.4 percent. But if you didn’t get this news, you’re not alone. Good economic news doesn’t make it through the negative sludge of Fox News or Newsmax. It almost doesn’t get through the mainstream media, either. There’s more good news on the economy. In the four years of Donald Trump’s administration, total spending on manufacturing facilities grew by 5 percent. During the first two years of Biden’s administration, manufacturing investment more than doubled. And about 800,000 manufacturing jobs were created. These remarkable results are the outcome of Biden policies — the Inflation Reduction Act and its green technology provisions, the infrastructure bill, and the CHIPS Act. What about inflation? Biden’s stimulative spending did boost inflation. But the news that’s not getting through to most Americans is that inflation is dropping. It has declined significantly from its mid-2022 highs above 9 percent. Consumer prices are now rising by about 4.9 percent annually — still a problem, but not nearly the problem it was. Inflation in the United States is now well under the levels in European nations that made no comparable efforts to stimulate their own economies. I continue to believe that much of the remaining inflation is due to the outsized profit margins that many major businesses have seized for themselves. Even the IMF recently found this. I wish Biden would make an issue of those profit margins. They’re enriching those at the top while imposing a big penalty on everyone else. And wages? For a while, real (adjusted for inflation) wages really were falling, and many economists were worried about rapidly rising unit labor costs. But now that inflation is subsiding, unit labor costs are moving in the opposite direction, and real wages are picking up again. So why do so many Americans continue to think the economy is awful? According to the Gallup economic confidence index, Americans haven’t felt this bad about the economy since the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. In an NBC News survey conducted a few weeks ago, at least 74 percent of Americans said the country is on the wrong track. The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index is also pessimistic. Given all this, it’s not surprising that Joe Biden’s approval numbers have been stuck at around 43 percent. That’s bad news for an incumbent president running for reelection. History shows that presidents tend to lose reelection bids when about 70 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. They tend to win when fewer than half of Americans think that. So the obvious question is, why are Americans are feeling so bad about an economy that’s relatively good? One reason, I think, is a general sense of dread — centering on Trump, DeSantis, and Republican lawmakers in Congress — that seems to affect everything else. (I don’t know about you, but I sometimes have difficulty getting to sleep, worried about the rise of authoritarian fascism in America.) A recent study found that headlines have grown starkly more negative, conveying anger and fear. Then, too, there’s a kind of national pandemic-related PTSD from which many of us are still suffering. But I think the deeper reason Americans don’t feel very good about the economy is that is that the vast population of working non-college grads — some two-thirds of Americans — are still bogged down in dead-end jobs lacking any economic security, while struggling with many costs (such as housing, child care, and education) that continue to soar. In other words, the economy is getting better overall — but overall has become a less and less useful gauge as the rich get richer, the poor grow poorer, and the working middle is under worsening siege. What do you think? (See you tomorrow for my last class, ever.)