"You know, I will say, and Bill saw this begin to happen during his presidency. It then accelerated during my presidency. I have been surprised that there haven't been guardrails inside the Republican Party." Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro So Obama is surprised that Republicans do not have guardrails in place to prevent people like Donald Trump from being nominated. Well that is an interesting notion. They argue for democracy, then make sure there are guardrails in place so that the right guy wins. What kind of guardrails do the democrats have? Would these guardrails prevent someone like, lets say, Bernie Sanders from being nominated. Based on the primaries from 2016 and 2020, we know that is true. It begs the question, if Democrats have guardrails to ensure the right person wins the primary, why wouldnt they apply the same principle to the general election. Maybe the democrats could work with the intelligence community and set up an 'insurance policy' to ensure that people outside of the Washington elite have no chance.
There's about 100,000 rank and file agents working for those trans-national intel agencies that own politics. Those agents are riding out their time for their pensions, they're not bitting the hand that feeds them. So it's up to Trump to clean out the executive branch.
I guess the guardrail that Obama talked about is just trying to maintain the centrists in power. Its obvious especially since the Hamas attack in October that the leftists have a lot more say in the Democrat Party but the leadership is still aging boomers like Pelosi who want to keep maintaining their power. I don't believe there will change within the party unless they lose badly. That's what happened from 1980-1992 where they transitioned from the FDR party to the new Clinton party. That's we are today still but I think Biden does represent a move to the left. I think he was an FDR democrat like Jimmy Carter. The GOP had to change after losing badly to Obama twice, but I'm not sure how much of the current GOP is Trump's cult of personality and how much is the MAGA zeitgeist. I have a feeling without Trump they would be more centrist. Trump has a high level of charisma like Clinton or JFK & that has its own appeal. I still think Trump is seen by the faithful as a permanent middle finger to the mainstream elites in this country. Trump's appeal is also the end result of middle america being killed by endless unfettered globalism run amok with no compensation to the losers of globalism. I remember during the pandemic one of the biggest backers of globalism (some journalist from the NYT) was on CNBC and even he admitted that globalism was an abject failure for the American middle class. But he also said there is nothing he or his cronies at the NYT could do to help them, they were simply casualties of globalism. So yeah Trumpism won't end until the economy serves those people as well as the coastal elites.