The right’s shocking admission: Stunned by Trump’s dominance, some GOP pundits concede that Dems hav

[applegrove]

The right’s shocking admission: Stunned by Trump’s dominance, some GOP pundits concede that Dems have been right about Republicans all along

by Sean Illing at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/17/the_rights_shocking_admission_stunned_by_trumps_dominance_some_gop_pundits_concede_that_dems_have_been_right_about_republicans_all_along/

"SNIP...............


It was always inevitable, I suppose. The Republican Party has debased itself for decades – courting racists, placating religious lunatics, and using the culture wars as a political wedge. Candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin are natural outgrowths of this conservative ecosystem; they’re exactly what you’d expect it to produce.

This is the climate Republicans have cultivated, and what we’re seeing now is the logical conclusion of those efforts.

The GOP establishment continues to eat itself from within, as officials scramble to make sense of it all. You might call it an identity crisis of sorts. Longtime Republicans are now questioning the party’s broader strategy. Here’s Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist for the Wall Street Journal:


“Liberals may have been fond of claiming that Republicans were all closet bigots and that tax cuts were a form of racial prejudice, but the accusation rang hollow because the evidence for it was so tendentious. Not anymore. The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism…It would be terrible to think that the left was right about the right all these years.”




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[deminks]

1. I love love that phrase "the sewer of American conservatism"

It stinks to high heaven.

[KittyWampus]

9. OPEN sewer. It's what happens when it's time to have the cesspump cleaned out.

[surrealAmerican]

12. more like a cesspit, maybe

A sewer generally leads somewhere.

[Wounded Bear]

15. This sewer does lead somewhere...

to fascism, eventually, if we don't get off the schneid and drag this country back to the left a bit. Well, quite a bit actually. When someone like Hillary gets listed as a liberal, we've gone much too far to the right for my comfort.

[SCVDem]

18. Have you read the comments on Military

.com? Holy crap! I can't believe the anti Obama bend to 95% of the posts.

I am also a Marine vet and find this disturbing! We are still Marines and our country is under attack.

We are all 0311. (6614)

[saidsimplesimon]

47. 0311 6614 Viet Nam, rifleman or machine gun, oui?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

38. Spot on.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. I think Wll Street conservatives will write off the GOP as a busted brand

and buy the Democratic party.

Oh wait...

[LiberalArkie]

3. I thought they already had.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. "Throw me a frickin' bone here..."

This too... has already happened.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. That was either WWII or Wall. I prefer to think the later.

[jalan48]

5. The new Republican Party is openly Fascist.

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Watch for the rise of mini-Trumps running for office all over the country in the next election. The Democratic Party will continue it's slide to the right, seemingly unaware it's filling the vacuum left by old Republican Party.

[pangaia]

10. I propose we call it either the ex-Democratic Party,

ot the Faux Democratic party --- FDP, for short.

[certainot]

19. the biggest mistake in political history is liberals ignore-ance of the

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of 1200 coordinated fascist radio stations that have been kicking our ass for 25 years, since shortly after reagan killed the fairness doctrine.

when liberal orgs finally do something about rw radio, like demanding these 90 universities stop supporting it, the monopoly will fall apart and the country will go to its natural state about 20 points to the left.

until then it's just going to keep getting worse and the pundits and scholars who read and watch tv will keep missing it, and the left will keep listening to music and whining and blaming their 'spineless' reps while those 1200 radio stations take free potshots at the sanders and wellstones and warrens, making sure there will be very few of them.

but it seems a few republicans and maybe some dems are starting to actually get it right, blaming talk radio for trump

[Surya Gayatri]

25. ^^^This!^^^

"The biggest mistake in political history is liberals ignoring of the 1200 coordinated fascist radio stations that have been kicking our ass for 25 years, since shortly after reagan killed the fairness doctrine."

Propaganda works on low-education masses.

[Doitnow]

51. Just look at all the Republican states that wipe out

funds for education, plus the politicians lie to their constituents ----small wonder they vote the way they do!

[malaise]

27. Yep

Propaganda for profit

[PADemD]

29. Link to 90 universities does not work.

[certainot]

30. republionradio.org - i fixed it there but here's the

corrected version to republiconradio.org

the print's getting smaller and smaller

[PADemD]

31. Thanks

[Dustlawyer]

34. Add in that the military leadership has new recruits indoctrinated into Republican politics.

I have a friend and former classmate who came out of the military brainwashed into far RW ideology. He wasn't like that when he went in, but his FB is full of him and his former Airborne Rangers spouting the most idiotic RW crap out there!

[certainot]

36. that may be normal for going through the military but

those guys also get talk radio from limbaugh and others on AFR

[Kingofalldems]

6. It started with Nixon--Pigboy got it out in the open.

[pansypoo53219]

8. that is what i told my moderate GOP epal. he suggested democratts save HIS PARTY.

oh HELL NO. your hate radio & YOUR hate fux gnewz CREATED this monster & i keep pointing out the racism against obama he can't see, mentioned dog whistles he did not hear. YOU guys EMBRACED the teabaggers! YOU. we ALWAYS have to clean up THEIR messes. same for when the parties were opposites.

[Firebrand Gary]

11. K&R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. America has had a love affair with hard right politics since the days of Yankee Traders....

The last time we went this far was the early 20th century. It all fell apart after the Roaring 20s. It's just a matter of time before it collapses again and we wake up that making the rich richer doesn't improve the lives of all.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. F U Trump

[certainot]

32. hulk... good..... seen it close to 100 times

[sarge43]

35. "Puny god." n/t

[saidsimplesimon]

46. We don't need a superhero to defeat this

embarrassment in american political history. We need more informed Americans taking their citizenship seriously. That includes finding the "time" to become an informed voter, not a member of the herd of rump reality show sheeple.

[ejbr]

16. Those bastards

will be DAMNED if they consider that money in politics is an issue this year. To admit that would be heresy! Yes, Trump has brought out the bigots, but both he and Bernie have brought out people sick of pay to play politics.

[AllyCat]

17. Of course we were right.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. You reap what you sow motherfuckers n/t

[TeamPooka]

21. It should be: "...that the left was 'correct' about the right all these years.”

You never use the same word twice in the same sentence and especially if using it with two meanings.

[AlbertCat]

43. You never use the same word twice in the same sentence and especially if using it with two meanings.

Well, we're lucky there is no "to, two, too", "their, they're, there" or "your, you're, yore" issues.

[kath]

52. uh, those are NOT the same words - they are homophones.

Look it up.
The previous poster was correct in his/her statement. Far too many so-called "journalists" lack basic writing skills these days.

[Xipe Totec]

22. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love

- Gabriel García Márquez

[airplaneman]

23. sometimes you conclude you were wrong

and sometimes you conclude you were right all along.
-Airplane

[L. Coyote]

24. Not new in American politics, nation that invented continent-wide genocide still racist, surprise...

Why are we pointing at one party when would could say the nation is still a racist nation. That might be a better approach to ending the problem that wiped out millions and millions.

[Thinkingabout]

26. Trump has removed the normal talking points used by RWers.

They are so busy trying to fight Trump and not talking issues for sure.

[AxionExcel]

28. D'oh

[Stellar]

33. Republic0ns are shocked now by their party? Donald Trump is the monster 'THEY' created.

Just when they prepared their constituents for the kill, along came Trumps and he took over.



They even started writing their own history books to help their constituents along.

[HenryWallace]

37. Let not forget why they have courted racists!

Their policies are wrong: regressive, broadly harmful and ultimately unpopular.

PS:

"In their bottomless cynicism, Republicans have tried to break the government so that they could then reproach the Democrats for ruining it..........a strategy of political arson."

--- As well stated as I have ever heard!

[Duppers]

39. K & Recommended

Sending this out.

Thank you, applegrove!

[TransitJohn]

40. Are they finally getting it?

[BernieforPres2016]

41. This is a good start

Now if we could just get Hillary Clinton supporters to acknowledge that she and her husband have converted the Democratic Party into a party of the upper 0.1% and big business.

If we could get supporters of the establishment of both political parties to acknowledge what they've become, we would have a chance for real progress in this country.

[AlbertCat]

42. because the evidence for it was so tendentious

That's a laugh!!!!

It's been obvious since the 1950's!

[Arugula Latte]

44. I don't see evidence for them being punished by voters, though.

The republicans have both chambers of Congress, and look how much power they have at the state level. Americans are fucking stupid and reward racism, misogyny, incompetence, and willful mis-government. They love that shit, especially the rightwing white guys, 'cuz it makes them feel like strong he-men who don't take no crap from wimmins, brown people & those pansy libtards.

[RedCappedBandit]

45. I've said it before that they're just exposing themselves.

We all know it. Of course even here peopl he been quick to come to their defense.

[redruddyred]

48. there's a thread at the daily kos explaining how to engage trump fans on social media

sadly it's more geared to a bernie sanders dem nomination
with hillary as the nominee, i have a hard time making any of these arguments in good faith.

[rocktivity]

49. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

But Trump isn't dominating -- the problem is that the others are so ineffectual. Like McCrazed and R-Money before him, he's the piss poor pick of a piss poor litter.


rocktivity

[Doitnow]

50. Duh!