- cross-posted to:
- electoralism@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- electoralism@hexbear.net
The former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney “hopes to be able to rebuild” the Republican party after Donald Trump leaves the political stage. Mitt Romney, the retiring Utah senator and former presidential nominee, reportedly hopes so too.
Among other prominent Republicans who refuse to bow the knee, the former Maryland governor Larry Hogan is running for a US Senate seat in a party led by Trump but insists he can be part of a post-Trump GOP.
Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chair turned MSNBC host, advocated more dramatic action: “We have to blow this crazy-ass party up and have it regain its senses, or something else will be born out of it. There are only two options here. Hogan will be a key player in whatever happens. Liz Cheney, [former congressmen] Adam Kinzinger and Joe Walsh – all of us who have been pushed aside and fortunately were not infected with Maga, we will have something to say about what happens on 6 November.”
The brand is kind of poisoned, they should abandon it, let the wackos have it, and come up with something new.
Honestly, they could take over the Libertarian party quite easily. It’s not like its current leadership is particularly effective.
Libertarian is socially liberal though, that’s the last thing Republicans want.
Dunno if you’ve seen much of the LP, but they are definitely not socially liberal.
And, even if they were, you could just promise bogus tax cuts and cheap legal weed and slide in being socially conservative, they wouldn’t notice.
But yes, you are right, Libertarian capitalists want the social freedom to make profits, which comes from restricting freedoms for those who are less wealthy. They will always fundamentally want less freedom for those they will oppress in order to force them to so kindly donate the vast majority of their labour in return for a small payment.
The ideology theoretically is. Socially liberal and fiscally conservative.