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Not an outright lie by TJS, just a misrepresentation
Posted on: August 24, 2020 at 10:05:19 CT
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Keeping the 2016 platform with some resolutions attached.
From WaPo
CHARLOTTE — Republicans will officially forgo the creation of a party platform Monday, approving a series of resolutions that condemn “cancel culture,” endorse “America First principles” and otherwise link their agenda to Trump.
“The 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention,” reads a resolution that was approved by Republican delegates in Charlotte and will be voted through by the full committee Monday in the city’s convention center. “All platforms are snapshots of the historical contexts in which they are born, and parties abide by their policy priorities, rather than their political rhetoric.”
This will be the first year since the founding of the Republican Party more than 160 years ago that it does not enter the general election with an official platform. In recent years, a platform committee has been formed by party leaders and delegates, hammering out a quadrennial document of principles that can stretch to dozens of pages.
In May, the Trump campaign floated the idea of scrapping the platform committee, and delegates gathered in this city, where the convention has been scaled down to a few hours, obliged. Delegates began arriving days ago for a smaller summer meeting that dealt with most party business, adopting seven resolutions that are expected to be approved as the party nominates Trump for a second term.
Among the other resolutions are a call to “reduce or phase out American-dependence on any foreign source of medicine” and a “complete overhaul of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946,” which would dismantle the current regulatory state and allow the president “to drain the swamp.” The party will condemn “cancel culture” and declare “solidarity against anti-Italian and anti-Catholic prejudice” by defending celebrations of Christopher Columbus.
“The expansion of Western Civilization, and the establishment of the United States of America, has led to an ever-improving, free and equal society benefiting all Americans,” the resolution reads.
Another resolution condemns the Southern Poverty Law Center, accusing the civil rights group of anti-conservative bias. “The federal government should not view this organization as a legitimate foundation equipped to provide actionable information to DHS or any other government agency,” it reads.
Democrats, who had scaled down their convention before Republicans, held their own platform meetings via Zoom in the days before the party’s meeting last week.
From WaPo
CHARLOTTE — Republicans will officially forgo the creation of a party platform Monday, approving a series of resolutions that condemn “cancel culture,” endorse “America First principles” and otherwise link their agenda to Trump.
“The 2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention,” reads a resolution that was approved by Republican delegates in Charlotte and will be voted through by the full committee Monday in the city’s convention center. “All platforms are snapshots of the historical contexts in which they are born, and parties abide by their policy priorities, rather than their political rhetoric.”
This will be the first year since the founding of the Republican Party more than 160 years ago that it does not enter the general election with an official platform. In recent years, a platform committee has been formed by party leaders and delegates, hammering out a quadrennial document of principles that can stretch to dozens of pages.
In May, the Trump campaign floated the idea of scrapping the platform committee, and delegates gathered in this city, where the convention has been scaled down to a few hours, obliged. Delegates began arriving days ago for a smaller summer meeting that dealt with most party business, adopting seven resolutions that are expected to be approved as the party nominates Trump for a second term.
Among the other resolutions are a call to “reduce or phase out American-dependence on any foreign source of medicine” and a “complete overhaul of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946,” which would dismantle the current regulatory state and allow the president “to drain the swamp.” The party will condemn “cancel culture” and declare “solidarity against anti-Italian and anti-Catholic prejudice” by defending celebrations of Christopher Columbus.
“The expansion of Western Civilization, and the establishment of the United States of America, has led to an ever-improving, free and equal society benefiting all Americans,” the resolution reads.
Another resolution condemns the Southern Poverty Law Center, accusing the civil rights group of anti-conservative bias. “The federal government should not view this organization as a legitimate foundation equipped to provide actionable information to DHS or any other government agency,” it reads.
Democrats, who had scaled down their convention before Republicans, held their own platform meetings via Zoom in the days before the party’s meeting last week.
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Not an outright lie by TJS, just a misrepresentation - dangertim MU - 8/24 10:05:19