The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced on Sunday that it was forgoing a new party platform for 2020 in favor of simply rallying around President Donald Trump’s agenda.
In 2020, “Trump” is the party platform.
They could add “support Putin” to round out their platform.
We knew they couldn’t goven, now they can’t even campaign. What is the GOP doing for America again?
"A fool always finds some greater fool to admire him." – Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Then there was this
The Party platform appears to be Incompetence
O/T shot 6 times in the back
All Hail God-Emperor Trump!
And the rest of the story
Wherein what used to be a political party just whatevers any attempt to say what it might stand for these days. “We are,” they conclude, “whatever Donald Trump says we are.”
Welp, so much for the “party of ideas”…
Pigs are out campaigning for Trump.
Who needs a platform when you can have a half-inflated raft?
Thanks for the link. It is great. The article states "To make it worse, the GOP also just copied and pasted their 2016 platform without editing it. It means that an attack on the White House and the current administration was left in the copy.
“The current Administration has exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen against citizen,” the platform says.
Trump owns GOP now - lock, stock and barrel…and by extension Putin owns GOP too! Note that RNC has no 2020 platform…
Given that the Republicans are saying their 2016 platform is valid again this year, it sets up some ... awkward statements in 2020.https://t.co/KZk314PFJO pic.twitter.com/CT392KzeWU
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 24, 2020
More on this thread…epic self owns 
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1297689609703432193
ICYMI good article to get caught up on RNC Day1:
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/24/get-ready-for-trumpfest-america--theres-no-republican-party-anymore/
“All platforms are snapshots of the historical contexts in which they are born, and parties abide by their policy priorities, rather than their political rhetoric,” according to the resolution.
Going Out of office Party.
it “did not want a small contingent of delegates formulating a new platform without the breadth of perspectives within the ever-growing Republican movement.”
Translation: we’re scared as f#ck that the Qanon nutjobs were going to force us into adding anti-Deep State language that demonizes basement dwellers, pizza shops, deep things, and states.
Politico has an article on the transformation from a party with ideas into a personality cult:
“Owning the libs and pissing off the media,” shrugs Brendan Buck, a longtime senior congressional aide and imperturbable party veteran if ever there was one. “That’s what we believe in now. There’s really not much more to it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/24/republicanmeltdown-trump-convention-400039
