The Republican Elites Have Finally Turned on the Rubes They've Swindled for Decades
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a43042/republican-elites-turn-on-trump-supporters/
The big yappity-yap this week has been about what Kevin D. Williamson, the stormy petrel of really bad ideas, has written in National Review, America's most venerable journal of white supremacy, about how poor white people are worthless parasites and how the places where they live could do with a good napalming or three. I am paraphrasing. But not by much....
The piece is seen as an indication of two things: 1) the ongoing nervous breakdown of the Republican Party over its current frontrunner and the people who support him, and 2) the final reveal of the long con on the white once-middle class that began when they were first flattered by the empty term, "Reagan Democrats." Now they're just meth-addled Oxy addicts who forget each other on the couch and produce kids that are just like them and who will grow up as couch-forgetting Oxy-addled meth-addicts who vote for President Ivanka Trump. And Kevin D. Williamson has had his forgetting fill of them. If only they'd sober up and vote for a religious fanatic like Ted Cruz, they'd go back to being the salt of the earth again....
Check out the signatories to that epistle. In addition to the ancient New Right Undead, like Morton Blackwell and Richard Viguerie, and in addition to the spouse of a damn Supreme Court justice, you will see the likes of Erick Erickson and even Jenny Beth Martin, the lavishly remunerated head of the Tea Party Patriots Citizenship Fund. Remember when the Tea Party was the hot new thing? Remember all those people in the tricorns demanding "their country" back? Now, the people who ginned them up are timorously giving their support to a nut theocrat from Texas whom no living human being apparently likes, and all because a vulgar talking yam has hijacked all the passionate bigotry that was the Tea Party's basic fuel source. And, if you happen to be someone whose personal finances went down the drain when sharpsters wrecked most of the economy and stole what was left, unless you're willing to line up behind Tailgunner Ted Cruz, you're just a worthless leech staggering from pharmacy to pharmacy with ragged fake prescriptions clutched in your shivering fists.
This was always coming. The contempt dripping from Williamson's writing, and from that pathetic appeal from alleged conservative "leaders" never was far from the minds of the Republican elites. They so easily distracted the "Reagan Democrats" with shiny-object social issues while shoving most of the nation's wealth upwards that they almost can be forgiven for thinking that the tactic would work forever. I mean, it worked for George W. Bush, for god's sake.
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