About the Right - or at least the R party - being accidentally right.
One of the traditional duties of the delegates to the quadrennial national party conventions, both Democratic and Republican, is to adopt a platform stating their policy preferences and principles.
These documents - akin to British party manifestos - are typically the subject of intense haggling and debate among the delegates, but are largely ignored by the candidates themselves, unless opponents decide to highlight a portion they think general-election voters will find extreme or unpopular.
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Instead, the delegates gathering for the limited in-person convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, passed a one-page resolution stating that they weren't going to have a new platform, but instead the party "has and will continue to enthusiastically support the president's America-first agenda".
The delegates said they made this decision because they did not want their reduced number in Charlotte making policy decisions for the entire party.
And so, the logic goes: "If there are not enough of us to take a decision for the entire party, then surely a single idiot will be better than us, so we'll support him enthusiastically". A sincere admission of incapability.
It continues:
a June decision by the party's executive committee to adopt the 2016 platform as-is in 2020.
While that might seem a reasonable decision given the circumstances, doing so without any changes meant the document included shots meant for the then in-power Democrats, like "all international executive agreements and political arrangements entered into by the current Administration must be deemed null and void as mere expressions of the current president's preferences".
They got it right in form at least. It still means "we are supporting Trump, in spite of policies being just a matter of current president's preferences"
The party of Trump
RNC 2020: The Republican Party now the Party of Trump
About the Right - or at least the R party - being accidentally right.
And so, the logic goes: "If there are not enough of us to take a decision for the entire party, then surely a single idiot will be better than us, so we'll support him enthusiastically".
A sincere admission of incapability.
It continues:
They got it right in form at least. It still means "we are supporting Trump, in spite of policies being just a matter of current president's preferences"
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