authoritarian, white nationalism. If you’ve got a man who will deliver that you don’t need ideology

[phantom power]

As I've mentioned before, the fact that the plutocracy lost control of their pet monster to Trump does not fill me with calm. Trump looks altogether too comfortable in the role as authoritarian leader for a bunch of disaffected xenophobic wingnuts.

The Republican establishment is under a tremendous amount of stress right now. Donald Trump has the party functionaries running around like his personal factotums and the elected officials are all figuring out the angles to ensure they come out on the Donald’s good side. It’s possible it may not survive in the form we’ve come to know it.

But the conservative movement is equally under pressure. They thought their years of carefully growing and indoctrinating the right wing of the Republican Party had resulted in a common belief in a certain conservative ideology, strategic vision and commitment to a specific agenda. It turns out that a good number of the people they thought had signed on to their program just wanted someone to stick it to ethnic and racial minorities and make sure America is the biggest bad ass on the planet — authoritarian, white nationalism. If you’ve got a man who will deliver that you don’t need ideology. And he doesn’t need democracy.

The mystery is why all these smart conservatives didn’t see this coming. They unleashed this beast a long time ago with the hate radio and the media propaganda and the ruthless politics. It was only a matter of time before it turned on them.

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/27/donald_trump_is_wrecking_the_conservative_movement_how_the_billionaire_is_exposing_its_most_toxic_secret/

[BillZBubb]

1. I'm not worried about Trump at all. I hope the repugs nominate him.

His white, male, nationalist, authoritarian base is not even close to a majority of the country. He'll do worse than romney in a general election.

Trump is great for Democrats.