Comparing the platforms

Comparing the platforms

Back during the Democratic National Convention, we did a post on the Democratic platform, promising that we would do the same for the Republican platform.  I never quite got around to that at the time, and we just have a few days before the election, so I realize I had better get that done.  I know that people say party platforms don’t really matter, but I do think they show us something about the parties and their ideology, as well as what tenets the wide range of party members can agree to.

So here is the  Republican Platform, entitled We Believe in America.  It defies excerpting, but here are the major headings, which you can read via the links.

"His religious leanings and ethnic background are not irrelevant to a wide swath of the ..."

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""Unlikable" is in the eye of the beholder. Plenty of people did like her.As for ..."

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"One has to consider, too, the absolutely vitriolic hatred of Clinton by Congressional Republicans. They'd ..."

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"I could care less about his religious leanings. The socialist part on the other hand, ..."

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