Republicans more disciplined and loyal to party than Dems: Analyst

US Republicans are far more disciplined and loyal to their party than Democrats, according to an American political analyst and activist.

Democrats have a problem in governing. It's not that they have such a big tent, it's just that they have no ropes to hold down the flaps, Myles Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress, told Press TV on Tuesday.

On Monday, Electoral College members across the United States cast their ballots to affirm Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. 

Trump needed 270 electoral votes to win the White House, but he received a total of 304. Two “rogue electors” broke from the Republican billionaire. One voted for Ohio Governor John Kasich while the other voted for former Texas Representative Ron Paul.

While Republican electors -- except two -- stayed loyal to their candidate, four “faithless electors” from the Democratic side refused to vote for Hillary Clinton. Three electors voted for former secretary of state Colin Powell, and another voted for Sioux leader Faith Spotted Eagle.

“Should anyone be surprised that more Democrats voted against Clinton than Republicans voted against Trump in Monday’s Electoral College run-off for the presidency?” Hoenig asked.  

“The Democratic Party has long proved that theirs is a party without party discipline, unlike the Republicans. The latter know how to ‘fall in line,’” he stated.  

“Here we have Trump who even most party establishment opposed yet for the sake of their party, their troops delivered the goods for him. They have long shown to be a controlled party, following Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment: Thou shalt speak ill of any fellow Republican,” the analyst noted.

“The Democrats, like the Republicans say they are, are a big tent. They have many different constituencies that cater to the party, such as labor, teachers, environmentalists, etc. What they don’t have for their tent are the ropes to hold down the sides. Even their poles that keep it up are riddled with termites,” he explained.

“What was surprising in Monday’s vote was that more Democratic electors did not vote for Clinton. Even though these electors are party loyalists, quite a few were Sanders’s supporters who saw him as the best hope, not just for the presidency, but for the Democratic Party, “ he said.  

“They saw Clinton as a representative of status quo, of corruption and decay, of neo-liberalism and warmongering, of faking progressive advocacy. WikiLeaks proved that the primary election season was entirely rigged by the Clinton machine that included the DNC, being the Democratic Party establishment, and their minions in the media who only care about access to the White House, not serving the interests of the Fourth Estate,” he observed.

Hoenig said President Barack Obama was “incapable of uniting the Democrats. “He couldn’t as he was doing his best to accommodate the most extreme of the Republicans.”

“A Trump administration is most likely best able to unite them but with a leadership that is incapable of looking and reflecting inward. Always looking outside for blame, we’ll see if they can get their act together in 2018 to show some real opposition to Trump,” he observed.

“My guess is that the only real opposition will be coming from Republicans who fear a disastrous election in 2018, if they can’t manage the next two years of one embarrassing episode after another,” he concluded.

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