Despite criticism on her handling of border policy, Vice President Kamala Harris scored an endorsement from Mayor John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona. In an op-ed published by the Arizona Republic on Monday, Giles made the case for Harris as president over his own party's nominee, former President Donald Trump. As he invoked
That’s being picky about ‘republican’ and ‘conservative’ as these names get further distanced from their meanings. In some sense. The NAME of a certain party is the main qualifier if you are this or that, not a policy or a thought behind it. While republicanism is against monarchy (and first-day-dictators), conservatism too is hard to imagine in the way of proactively undoing established policies to celebrate something that old that it’s new for most living citizen, so it’s not conserving but introducing a new reactionary twist. It’s just a passing thought I don’t think I captured completely.
Aren’t most of them RINOs?
How so?
That’s being picky about ‘republican’ and ‘conservative’ as these names get further distanced from their meanings. In some sense. The NAME of a certain party is the main qualifier if you are this or that, not a policy or a thought behind it. While republicanism is against monarchy (and first-day-dictators), conservatism too is hard to imagine in the way of proactively undoing established policies to celebrate something that old that it’s new for most living citizen, so it’s not conserving but introducing a new reactionary twist. It’s just a passing thought I don’t think I captured completely.
I get what you’re saying but I think you’re running into a little issue of “lower case republican” vs. “upper case Republican.”
That’s true. Methinks, it may or may not be a little stone in the shoe of their current campaign if taken further in some more productive angle
Interesting I’d have to think about that.