The GOP's hollow presidential primary is allergic to ideas

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“Ideas have consequences” was once a favored incantation among conservatives. Drawn from the title of a 1948 book, the phrase was a way for the right to proclaim its intellectual effervescence while casting liberals as the peddlers of a dying creed.

The GOP is now testing a radically new proposition: Are there consequences for having no ideas?

Okay, I guess that depends in part on how you define “ideas.”

Donald Trump has proposed shooting shoplifters, as NBC News noted in a report on GOP “bloodlust.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pledged to kill drug smugglers who cross the Mexican border. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, in more organized fashion, proposed sending Special Forces into Mexico to go after drug cartels. Oh, and DeSantis said last August that he wanted to “slit the throats” of federal bureaucrats on Day 1 of his administration. But don’t be alarmed, civil servants. He explained later that he was “being colorful.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/19/republican-party-trump-haley-desantis-ideas/

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1. Ideas....that is the last fucking thing they want to talk about.

Lets talk about how we can cleave Americans!