What the last eight years have shown us is that the number of actual conservatives in the Republican Party was actually quite small. Today's GOP is largely a replica of its 1930s self: isolationist, nativist, and with a soft spot for authoritarians.
What the last eight years have shown us is that the number of actual conservatives in the Republican Party was actually quite small. Today's GOP is largely a replica of its 1930s self: isolationist, nativist, and with a soft spot for authoritarians.
Bingo. 1930: pre-New Deal business environment (regulatory agency & reg-free, no unions, no social security, no medicare, no consumer/environmental protection), Jim Crow on steroids (no civil rights legislation-free, vicious voter suppression), isolationist-to-the-bone, even in the face of WWII. Project 2025: Our principles, our republic, our courts, our world leadership, to be trashed (again) by wholly unprincipled, narcissist Trump - I don’t think so.
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We shouldn't overlook the role being played in all of that by white evangelicals, particularly the prosperity gospel types. They've been snookered by smooth-talking conmen waving bibles for a couple of generations now. They willingly send their much-needed dollars to grifters in $1000 suits, stadium-sized mansions and the latest private planes even though it means their kids eat PB&J for dinner. These people are longing not just for a daddy figure to assure them they're better than everyone else, but who will rain down hell on the people they hate. When Trump came along loudly proclaiming his hatred for the same people, they went all in.
They don't just have a soft spot for authoritarians, they've been waiting for one.
What the last eight years have shown us is that the number of actual conservatives in the Republican Party was actually quite small. Today's GOP is largely a replica of its 1930s self: isolationist, nativist, and with a soft spot for authoritarians.
Bingo. 1930: pre-New Deal business environment (regulatory agency & reg-free, no unions, no social security, no medicare, no consumer/environmental protection), Jim Crow on steroids (no civil rights legislation-free, vicious voter suppression), isolationist-to-the-bone, even in the face of WWII. Project 2025: Our principles, our republic, our courts, our world leadership, to be trashed (again) by wholly unprincipled, narcissist Trump - I don’t think so.
Vote and, today, support grass-roots orgs devoted to getting out the vote.
We shouldn't overlook the role being played in all of that by white evangelicals, particularly the prosperity gospel types. They've been snookered by smooth-talking conmen waving bibles for a couple of generations now. They willingly send their much-needed dollars to grifters in $1000 suits, stadium-sized mansions and the latest private planes even though it means their kids eat PB&J for dinner. These people are longing not just for a daddy figure to assure them they're better than everyone else, but who will rain down hell on the people they hate. When Trump came along loudly proclaiming his hatred for the same people, they went all in.
They don't just have a soft spot for authoritarians, they've been waiting for one.
Why do I want to add those who spend money and time attending professional wrestling events to this list of GOP supporter attributes?
That Venn diagram is likely to be a circle.
You're going to make JVL angry.