Um, think I've spent the last 18 months writing about it but whatever
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And many still haven’t really reckoned with it.
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This is a great article. Well done
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Thank you.
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“... the smallest influence coming from the center-right” - that explains a lot, e.g. why Republicans stand accused to take health care away from millions, without any noticeable explanation or defense how this makes the world a better place according conservative views.
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great article, by the way.
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Trump won the nomination because he was the primary candidate with the most support. He did not change the party. He only cemented the changes that had already occurred.
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I mostly agree, but... It was a large field and he didn't crack 50% in a primary until he had it all but sown up. With fewer candidates and a more organized establishment, his core 30-something percent might not have been enough to get the nomination.
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I suppose I need to reduce my argument to something like: "he represented the ideas that had energy and momentum in the party." Other candidates got lukewarm responses from voters, even though it was considered to be a great field of candidates until he wiped the floor with them.
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I try not to read people's minds and tell them what motivates them (though I might do it without noticing), but you may have a point about the Tea Party energy switching to the Trump movement. I also agree that the current Republican coalition doesn't have much binding them.
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This is good
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In other news, the sky is blue, and it looks like much of the 2018 electoral map will be too.
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Since the '50s, the Republican party has committed its big-business orientation (of Coolidge), waving self-contradictorily the banner of individualism, to the Confederacy orientation of, say, the Scopes trial. This transition was to exploit white anxiety for votes. Vide:
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Tax cuts for the rich to 'create jobs', and Goldwater: "Hunt where the ducks are." Nixon: Southern strategy Reagan: Welfare mothers and young bucks Bush: Willie Horton Rove/Cheney: "compassionate" service cuts
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Trump isn't an eddy or—gracious!—reversal of a conservative current (Burke, Hayek); his combination of rhetoric ('Drain the swamp!) and action (enormous increase in wealth disparity) is the realization of 200 yrs of confusing privilege, and stasis of privilege, with virtue.
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The fight you ably report is between conservatives who might not realize how repulsive conservatism has been all along, and conservatives who suppose that they can recover some nobility from the repulsiveness of their current avatar. Choose between these positions??
#CmonMan
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When white Southern Evangelicals moved into the Republican Party in the late 50's through 70'S because of Civil Rights, they were embraced. But, they injected the Republican Party with racism, ignorance and intolerance. BURN THE
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