Let's evaluate the whole Republican party platform!

In the age of Donald Trump, it can be easy to forget that the Republican Party actually exists as an organization. But they do! The Republican National Committee oddly failed to release a party platform back in 2020, but they just released one for 2024. So I thought I’d go through it point by point and evaluate it. There are dozens of points in the platform, so I can’t spend a lot of time on each one — well, I could, and it would probably be fun for me, but you’d stop reading long before the end. So let’s just hit the highlights; if that makes my assessments overly glib, I apologize in advance. Also note that the platform is laid out in a bit of a confusing manner — there’s a list of 20 “promises”, followed by 10 “chapters” that roughly correspond to these promises, but in a different order. So I’m going to go through the “chapters” instead of the “promises”. My general verdict here is that this is a huge improvement on past Republican platforms. For one thing, the majority of it is fo

In the age of Donald Trump, it can be easy to forget that the Republican Party actually exists as an organization. But they do! The Republican National Committee oddly failed to release a party platform back in 2020, but they just released one for 2024. So I thought I’d go through it point by point and evaluate it. There are dozens of points in the platform, so I can’t spend a lot of time on each one — well, I could, and it would probably be fun for me, but you’d stop reading long before the end. So let’s just hit the highlights; if that makes my assessments overly glib, I apologize in advance