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And there is bipartisan opposition to a value-added tax, with Democrats fearing its regressive consequences and Republicans dreading its revenue-generating effectiveness.
These political moderates, and many other Republicans in the 1960s, still reflected the party of Abraham Lincoln in readily defined ways.
One cannot imagine those Republicans from the 1960s campaigning alongside the two leading GOP candidates today.
On legislation, however, extremism will not work, owing to the need to attract some relatively centrist Republicans in order for it to pass.
For his fellow Republicans, however, it is “but he broke with the legacy of Ronald Reagan by repudiating his ‘no new taxes’ pledge.”
Republicans since Bush have followed his lead in one respect: a pattern of pro-cyclical fiscal policy.
The most significant has been offered by one of the chief intellectuals of the opposition Republicans, William Kristol.
In Nixon’s time, there were solid adversarial Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, and there were also some Republicans, especially in the Senate, who put concerns about the Constitution ahead of concerns for their party.
Although there has been talk, even from some Republicans, about appointing a select committee or a special prosecutor to look into the allegations about the Russians and the Trump campaign, the resistance has been extraordinary compared to 1973.
It is possible, of course, that Trump’s firing of Comey will push some Republicans to decide that enough is enough and follow Baker’s example.
International developments might also awaken some Republicans to the magnitude of the Russian offensive on Western democracies, an offensive which, in the wake of the French elections, feels like an undeclared war.
There are welcome signs that some Republicans in the US Congress will resist Trump’s proposed deep cuts in US aid.
France’s other major mainstream party – the center-right Republicans, rooted in Charles de Gaulle’s political legacy – does not seem to be doing much better.
On the contrary, Trump and congressional Republicans are moving fast to dismantle the Affordable Care Act – President Barack Obama’s signature health-care policy – claiming that its as-yet-undefined replacement will maintain the popular elements and drop the unpopular ones.
Although congressional Republicans have so far refused to allow for a judge-supervised bankruptcy process, bipartisan agreement remains possible.
The party’s approach is perhaps understandable: after all, shifting demographics have put the Republicans at an electoral disadvantage.
In particular, Great Britain’s departure from the EU and Scotland’s departure from the UK would add to tensions in Northern Ireland between pro-UK Unionists and Republicans seeking to join Ireland.
Other prominent Republicans, including in the House of Representatives, have been living in their own world for some time.
And Trump and congressional Republicans have been presiding over a relatively strong economy, which they inherited from former President Barack Obama, but are happy to claim as their own.
For weeks, Republicans in the House of Representatives threatened to keep the government shuttered – thereby preventing it from extending its borrowing authority beyond the October 17 deadline – in order to challenge laws that were enacted by Congress as a whole and upheld by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is rather sensitive about foreigners meddling in domestic Israeli politics, has been openly and consistently courting congressional Republicans by attacking Obama.
But they vote overwhelmingly for Republicans, so Obama would not seem to have much to lose there.
Now, Trump and congressional Republicans are pursuing tax reform – starting with corporate taxes and then moving on to personal income taxes – as if this will be any easier.
A plan offered by Republicans in the US House of Representatives to reduce the corporate-tax rate from 35% to 15%, and to make up for the lost revenues with a border adjustment tax, is dead on arrival.
First, fiscally conservative congressional Republicans will object to a reckless increase in the public debt.
Republicans themselves have always strongly opposed a VAT, and there is even an anti-VAT Republican caucus in Congress.
For example, if Republicans eliminated the mortgage-interest deduction for homeowners, the US housing market would crash.
A political neophyte is sitting in the White House, to the profound discomfort of establishment Republicans and Democrats.
Thus, for Tretyakov, “bad Bush and his Republicans are better for us than the very bad Democrats.”
Between issuing scurrilous charges of non-existent voter fraud, openly encouraging his fellow Republicans to engage in voter suppression, and inviting foreign powers to launch cyber attacks against his opponents, Trump has undermined the credibility of US elections.
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