{"id":12452,"date":"2023-12-17T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12452"},"modified":"2023-12-17T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:07:59","slug":"nikki-haleys-rise-and-the-republican-flight-from-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12452","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley\u2019s \u201crise\u201d and the Republican flight from reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“We live in a world where nearly 80 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of Donald Trump<\/a>. These voters are, in many cases, authentic Trumpists: About 70 percent of Republicans<\/a> believe that the 2020 election<\/a> was stolen. New research by political scientists Larry Bartels and Nicholas Carnes found that House Republicans who opposed Trump\u2019s effort to overturn the 2020 election were considerably more likely<\/a> to lose in a primary or be forced into retirement than Trump-supporting peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is not some kind of aberration, a flash in the pan akin to candidates like Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann in previous cycles. He and \u2014 crucially \u2014 his worldview are so popular among Republican primary voters that they can\u2019t be beaten by throwing money at someone like Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means the 2024 election<\/a> is not a competition between an ordinary Democrat and an ordinary Republican. It is a choice between an ordinary Democrat and a Republican running on an increasingly open platform of tearing down American democracy<\/a>. Instead of acknowledging this reality, AFPA has simply chosen to live in a fantasy land where the GOP is still the party of limited government libertarianism \u2014 and where Democrats are, implausibly, Trumpism\u2019s mirror image threat to American democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to understand the reasons for this flight of fancy. From the point of view of someone who deeply believes in traditional small government conservatism, this election truly is an agonizing choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the exception of free trade, Trump\u2019s last term largely served the super-wealthy\u2019s interests in economic matters \u2014 passing a massive regressive tax cut and slashing environmental regulations. But he also poses an existential threat to American democracy, promising a term of instability that could shatter the political calm necessary for the economy to function<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden, on the other hand, has worked to bring stability to American democracy. Yet he also has moved to the left on economic matters, in ways that threaten the billionaire vision of an American night-watchman state<\/a>. In a contest between Trump and Biden, the superrich can\u2019t get what they want the most: political stability paired with a continuing assault on the welfare state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The support for Haley is a way of avoiding what they see as a terrible choice. It\u2019s a desperation play designed to stave off what they see as certain calamity, an 80-yard Hail Mary thrown to a receiver in sextuple coverage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23979441\/nikki-haley-afp-koch-republican-billionaire-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We live in a world where nearly 80 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of Donald Trump. These voters are, in many cases, authentic Trumpists: About 70 percent of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was stolen. New research by political scientists Larry Bartels and Nicholas Carnes found that House Republicans who opposed Trump\u2019s effort to overturn the 2020 election were considerably more likely to lose in a primary or be forced into retirement than Trump-supporting peers.
\nTrump is not some kind of aberration, a flash in the pan akin to candidates like Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann in previous cycles. He and \u2014 crucially \u2014 his worldview are so popular among Republican primary voters that they can\u2019t be beaten by throwing money at someone like Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n

That means the 2024 election is not a competition between an ordinary Democrat and an ordinary Republican. It is a choice between an ordinary Democrat and a Republican running on an increasingly open platform of tearing down American democracy. Instead of acknowledging this reality, AFPA has simply chosen to live in a fantasy land where the GOP is still the party of limited government libertarianism \u2014 and where Democrats are, implausibly, Trumpism\u2019s mirror image threat to American democracy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to understand the reasons for this flight of fancy. From the point of view of someone who deeply believes in traditional small government conservatism, this election truly is an agonizing choice.<\/p>\n

With the exception of free trade, Trump\u2019s last term largely served the super-wealthy\u2019s interests in economic matters \u2014 passing a massive regressive tax cut and slashing environmental regulations. But he also poses an existential threat to American democracy, promising a term of instability that could shatter the political calm necessary for the economy to function.<\/p>\n

Biden, on the other hand, has worked to bring stability to American democracy. Yet he also has moved to the left on economic matters, in ways that threaten the billionaire vision of an American night-watchman state. In a contest between Trump and Biden, the superrich can\u2019t get what they want the most: political stability paired with a continuing assault on the welfare state.<\/p>\n

The support for Haley is a way of avoiding what they see as a terrible choice. It\u2019s a desperation play designed to stave off what they see as certain calamity, an 80-yard Hail Mary thrown to a receiver in sextuple coverage.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23979441\/nikki-haley-afp-koch-republican-billionaire-trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[372,198,1837,509,130,968,506],"class_list":["post-12452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-nikki-haley","tag-politics","tag-republican","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12453,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions\/12453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}