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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP is not giving lip service to right wing crazies
They ARE right wing crazies. There was a time that political thought was the Republican Party strung along racists, religious fanatics and other right wing groups so they could get elected and do things like tax cuts and regulation pull backs.
But it is becoming apparent that the Party isn't using these people for their own ends. The Party is those people.
rampartc
(5,404 posts)neocons, 4chan incels, the entire basket of deplorables.
trump is the embodiment of all their movements. if we do beat him, they will still be here.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Cosmocat
(14,563 posts)they have full on drunk their own kool aid ...
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,444 posts)There's like 10 threads a day on the same topic..
Just saying.
edhopper
(33,571 posts)but I wish the Media would stop treating them like "the adults in the room."
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)COT = Cult of Trump
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)seems to have taken hold and now the entire party is a walking mass of Alex Jones/Infowars-obsessed conspiracy theorists and Christian Dominionists, White Nationalists, etc.
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)and it's actually been that way for a long time. Started with Nixon and his "Southern Strategy"
edhopper
(33,571 posts)was hoodwinking the racist to vote GOP. Now those racists are running the GOP.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)thoughts. They believe all the shit they say.
DFW
(54,356 posts)They call themselves "conservative," when they don't resemble the definition of the word at all. They think it's enough for them to call themselves that on Fox Noise, and suddenly it becomes true.
Sorry, people: you can wade into the ocean, but that only makes you wet. It does not make you a fish.