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Someone once asked the late, legendary humorist Will Rogers about his political affiliation.<\/p>\n

“I don’t belong to an organized political party,” Rogers reportedly answered. “I’m a Democrat.”<\/p>\n

Ba-da-boom!<\/em><\/p>\n

My hunch is that the same answer today could be given as it regards the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

The GOP is in a state of chaos. <\/a>It doesn’t know how to handle the emergence of a reality TV star\/real estate mogul as a serious candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump delivered a serious wedgie to the Republican Party “establishment” Tuesday night with his win in the New Hampshire primary. As the story linked to this blog illustrates, the GOP brass is looking for answers to coping with this guy.<\/p>\n

He’s insulted his way to the top of the heap. He has demonstrated — by my way of thinking — zero philosophical grounding. If you’re looking for anything resembling a sophisticated answer to the myriad issues facing the candidates for president, do not expect it to come from Trump. Instead, you can expect a sound bite. A laugh line. A stream-of-consciousness rant about this and\/or that.<\/p>\n

But hey, whatever works.<\/p>\n

It’s working for Trump and the Republican Party is grasping for ways to derail this guy.<\/p>\n

Forty-plus years ago, the Democrats were the party in chaos. It’s liberal wing was fighting with the establishment — I suppose much like it is today — but the establishment didn’t have an answer for the insurgencies led by the likes of Sens. Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern. The issue then was the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

The issue today is much more complex than\u00a0the cost of young American lives on a foreign battlefield.<\/p>\n

There appears to be a lot of anger among voters, which\u00a0honestly baffles me. Then again, it takes a lot to make me mad.<\/p>\n

These things do run in cycles. I don’t know if the Republican Party high command will find the answers it seeks while trying to cope with Trump. Nor do I know if whatever it is that’s driving Trump will win the day and change the party forever.<\/p>\n

All I know for certain is that the once-chaotic Democratic Party — which, yes, has its own conflict underway — is looking peaceful in comparison to what’s roiling the Republicans.<\/p>\n

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Someone once asked the late, legendary humorist Will Rogers about his political affiliation. “I don’t belong to an organized political party,” Rogers reportedly answered. “I’m a Democrat.” Ba-da-boom! My hunch is that the same answer today could be given as it regards the Republican Party. The GOP is in a state of chaos. It doesn’t … Continue reading Times change, and so do political party dynamics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[3,13,14],"tags":[1337,1424,1640,1893,3907,3930,5949],"class_list":["post-12849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-eugene-mccarthy","tag-george-mcgovern","tag-republican-party","tag-rfk","tag-will-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}