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Showing Original Post only (View all)The GOP will not revert to "normal" after Trump. [View all]
What the Trump led GOP is represents what is normal for the GOP, and has been so since 1968.
Racism is the foundation of the post-1968 GOP.
Representing the wealthy to the detriment of all others has been the post-1920 GOP.
Misogyny is the GOP.
Lying about what their policies are intended to do is the GOP.
Electoral cheating and voter suppression is the GOP, and has been since 1968.
There is no normal GOP that will come out again after Trump leaves.
And thinking otherwise is, in my view, delusional.
And this is not to say that all conservative voters are racist, misogynistic, greedy liars, but being one is certainly no obstacle to electoral success in the GOP.
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And is bought into by many women. i personally know women that think a woman leader is ridiculous.
Midnight Writer
Jun 2019
#44
The GOP wandered off the track of normal in 1979. They never found their way back...
pecosbob
Jun 2019
#4
It's a winning book. Call it what you will. He's attacking Trump hard and that is what the folks
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#52
He will pick up a lot of votes from Democrats, at least according to the latest polls at this point
still_one
Jun 2019
#55
Trump's populist "movement" isn't, it is just a rebranded version of the same far right
Thomas Hurt
Jun 2019
#28
Plus if they forget what they're about, there's a media machine, the Koch$ and a rabid base
BeyondGeography
Jun 2019
#56
I know that Biden is catching a lot of guff for his remarks and seeming delusional
Proud Liberal Dem
Jun 2019
#61
And increasingly emboldened, just like the growing GOP bench on the Supreme Court.
JudyM
Jun 2019
#74
The Tea Bagger infestation took all this up a notch, then came Trump. nt
Progressive Jones
Jun 2019
#70
The GOP has been on a downward spiral since Newt Gringich was Speake fron '95-'99
Fla Dem
Jun 2019
#81