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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow the GOP Came to Trump
https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/15/how-the-gop-came-to-trump/"SNIP.............
Matt Taibbi: The party spent 50 years preaching rich people bromides like trickle-down economics and picking yourself up by your bootstraps as solutions to the growing alienation and financial privation of the ordinary voter. In place of jobs, exported overseas by the millions by their financial backers, Republicans glibly offered the flag, Jesus and Willie Horton.
In recent years it all went stale. They started to run out of lines to sell the public. Things got so desperate that during the Tea Party phase, some GOP candidates began dabbling in the truth. They told voters that all Washington politicians, including their own leaders, had abandoned them and become whores for special interests. It was a slapstick routine: Throw us bums out!
Republican voters ate it up and spent the whole of last primary season howling for blood as Trump shredded one party-approved hack after another. By the time the other 16 candidates finished their mass-suicide-squad routine, a tail-chasing, sewer-mouthed septuagenarian New Yorker was accepting the nomination of the Family Values Party.
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How the GOP Came to Trump (Original Post)
applegrove
Oct 2016
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)1. What did you snip?
It looks like you just pasted the entirety of what is at the link.
applegrove
(118,600 posts)2. Yes but it was a snip itself. So I only think it is fair to imply there is more to read. Here is the
more. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-fury-and-failure-of-donald-trump-w444943
I find Taegan Goddard to be really salient in what his snips. So I go there every day and link at least a few articles.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)3. Thanks!
I was definitely interested in reading more - good analysis.