By ADELE MALPASS, Special to the Sun
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June 1, 2020
President Trump’s plan to distill the Republican platform to its
essential principles may be opposed by some conservatives. By no means
all of them, though. Count me as one former Republican county chairman
and a member of a past platform committee who sees this plan as long
overdue — potentially a new kind of contract with America.
The work on the platform for 2020 is reportedly being led by Jared
Kushner. The idea is to shrink the party platform down to an index card,
meaning to its pith — and, I’m predicting, in language that is so plain
that no lipreading will be necessary. The points will be there in black
and white so that everyone can quickly understand them and compare them
to the Democrats’ nostrums.
What a difference that would be from the doorstops of recent history. The
GOP platform has long been considered an unimportant document, a policy
wish list rather than a political statement. This may be why so many
people were shocked when President Trump started redeeming one campaign
promise after another — from taxes to Jerusalem...............The more I became involved in Republican campaigns, the more clear it
became that the platform statement — in 2016 it ran a dense 58 pages —
was not a usable political tool. Few read the document beginning to end.
Anyone who tries it can understand why. Plus, it doesn’t seem to
matter, because the high level nominees are often better wordsmiths than
the platform scribes.............
Four years ago, Candidate Trump asked voters to try something new. He
faced a field of 16 opponents and disrupted the status quo. A short,
clear platform can be just as successful if it clarifies the issues,
makes them memorable and useful, and gets them into the pockets of
everyone covering — and voting in — the contest ahead............To Read More....
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