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I share Barack Obama’s concern for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Yes, the president of the United States — the nation’s leading Democrat, at least until January — is concerned that the GOP is fading away, it is morphing into something that cannot join in the act of governing.<\/p>\n

That’s what he told late-night comic Jimmy Fallon in an interview to be broadcast tonight.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/282812-obama-im-worried-about-the-republican-party<\/a><\/p>\n

Spoiler alert: The interview is a scream.<\/em><\/p>\n

Obama said his party is delighted at the prospect of facing Donald J. Trump in this year’s presidential election. Trump’s fellow Republicans, though, aren’t so thrilled.<\/p>\n

The president said the Republican presidential nominee should be someone who can do the job, understands the issues at hand, and “ultimately can still move the country forward.”<\/p>\n

Does that sound like Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

I’ve seen dominant political parties here in Texas. Both of them — Democrats and Republicans — have at times abused their dominance over the other side.<\/p>\n

I came to Texas in the spring of 1984 and settled in the Golden Triangle region, which at the time remained a strong “yellow dog Democrat” stronghold. Local Republicans felt disrespected and dismissed by Democrats who held tightly onto virtually every office in three counties — Jefferson, Orange and Hardin.<\/p>\n

The political landscape has shifted dramatically in Texas. Republicans now are the top dogs. They have clamped vise grips on every statewide office in Texas.<\/p>\n

I moved to the Panhandle in January 1995 — and into the heart of GOP Country.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party virtually doesn’t even exist here, no matter what the few of them around the Panhandle would say.<\/p>\n

Has it been good to have one party so dominant? No.<\/p>\n

The president’s point, though, is that the national<\/em> GOP has become something unrecognizable from the party that used to take pride in being able to govern.<\/p>\n

As the president told Fallon: “But what’s happened in that party culminating in this current nomination, I think is not actually good for the country as a whole.\u00a0It’s not something Democrats should wish for. And my hope is, is that maybe once you get through this cycle, there’s some corrective action and they get back to being a center-right party. And Democratic Party being a center-left party. And we start figuring how to work together.”<\/p>\n

Work together<\/em>. I believe that’s how government works best.<\/p>\n

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I share Barack Obama’s concern for the Republican Party. Yes, the president of the United States — the nation’s leading Democrat, at least until January — is concerned that the GOP is fading away, it is morphing into something that cannot join in the act of governing. That’s what he told late-night comic Jimmy Fallon … Continue reading Come back, Republican Party<\/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":[9,13,14,18],"tags":[540,1337,1424,1936,1941,4668,5322],"class_list":["post-15137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-golden-triangle","tag-gop","tag-texas-panhandle","tag-yellow-dog-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137","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=15137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15139,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137\/revisions\/15139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}