The Dems hammered the GOP to the point of desperation when they elected a black man as president. In their desperation, they turned to a conman/Russian intelligence asset they didn’t understand.
Seriously though, this is a culmination of a sickness that has infected the GOP going back to Reagan and Nixon’s Southern Strategy before that. They decided to wrap tax cuts for the wealthy and broad deregulation around cultural issues that mattered to rural voters. Now, they’ve created a monster. Their willingness to appeal to the baser instincts of the populace has been their undoing and may ultimately be the undoing of American democracy.
It’s not just their willingness to appeal to extremism, it’s their core belief against compromise that they inherited from religious preachers during the implementation of the southern strategy. Religion seeks to dominate outside groups and they are willing to invoke the second amendment but ignore the first the same way they talk about judeo-christian values while ignoring scripture that is politically inconvenient for their own lives.
The Dems hammered the GOP to the point of desperation when they elected a black man as president. In their desperation, they turned to a conman/Russian intelligence asset they didn’t understand.
Seriously though, this is a culmination of a sickness that has infected the GOP going back to Reagan and Nixon’s Southern Strategy before that. They decided to wrap tax cuts for the wealthy and broad deregulation around cultural issues that mattered to rural voters. Now, they’ve created a monster. Their willingness to appeal to the baser instincts of the populace has been their undoing and may ultimately be the undoing of American democracy.
It’s not just their willingness to appeal to extremism, it’s their core belief against compromise that they inherited from religious preachers during the implementation of the southern strategy. Religion seeks to dominate outside groups and they are willing to invoke the second amendment but ignore the first the same way they talk about judeo-christian values while ignoring scripture that is politically inconvenient for their own lives.
They invoke the second amendment but only for themselves too