There’s a meme floating
around the internet since about 2015 in which Donald Trump says that if he were
to run for office, he’d do it as a Republican because they’re so stupid.
Well, he never really
said that. He may have thought it, but it never said it publicly.
However, he often seems
to act that way. He keeps changing parties.
Trump
registered as a Republican in 1987; a member of the Independence Party, the New
York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999; a Democrat in 2001; a Republican
in 2009; unaffiliated in 2011; and a Republican in 2012.
He must be doing it as a
business strategy. Whichever will serve him best at the time, that’s the party
he’ll switch to.
His ideas about why he
changes seems to change just as often.
In 2004, he confessed to Wolf
Blitzer: "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats
than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean
it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats....But certainly
we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But
we've had some pretty bad disasters under the Republicans."
However, in 2015 he had other
thoughts. “I am a conservative person. I am by nature a conservative person. I
never looked at putting a label on myself, I wasn’t in politics. But if
you look at my general attitudes in life I would certainly have the more
conservative label put on me."
Republicans
have often wondered about whether he was a real Republican too. “He
was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican. He's given more money to
Democrats than he has to Republicans," Jeb Bush said.
Face it, when you think
about the history of the Republican party, Trump is nothing like their leaders
of the past. In your mind can you lump him in with Lincoln, Teddy, Ike, Reagan
or even Bush I & II?
Of course not. If he
adheres to any of the tenets of the party, it’s only to further some interest
of his. Except for his hardcore base of zealots, everyone knows that everything
he does is purely for him.
I’m bring this all up
because just like the majority of his former cabinet members, hundreds of
people who have served in Republican administrations in the past and the
majority of military leaders who have had to follow his orders have stated publicly, you are not
giving up your affiliation with the GOP if you don’t vote for him.
"Let me be clear to my Republican
friends at home: If you vote for Kamala
Harris in 2024 you’re not a Democrat, you’re a patriot,” former
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) said.
Trump is the ultimate
RINO—Republican in name only. So be
patriotic and put country before party. Vote for Kamala Harris for president.
We here at The Thurber Brigade once again apologize for yet another side step away from the “War
Between Men and Women” (relationships) in order to blog about The Orange One.
Sure, we’ve blogged about how he’s insane, how he is bad and how he is really unpopular. But with the election drawing so near we believe we need to keep
pounding home how this person should never be in the White House again. We
promise to get back to the straight and narrow real soon. Maybe. Oh, look,
football season is about to begin!
