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Lidane2/28/2016 5:30:10 pm PST

re: #19 lawhawk

Every last one of the GOPers is an extremist whose backers include racists, misogynists, and hate mongers. Trump’s just the most successful one this cycle.

And the GOP defense for all this support from within the GOP and in the polls/primaries? “No True Conservative” or “No True GOP” - all rather hilarious coming from the party of personal responsibility that continues to avoid any of it.

That’s the reason they’re in such trouble. Of course, the trouble they’ve created is going to screw everyone else. And Democrats are busy figuring out a way to lose this thing out of spite?

Talked to a friend from high school yesterday. We’ve known each other forever but have always been on opposite sides politically. He’s easily one of the most conservative people I know. Right now he’s physically ill at the idea that Trump is the front runner for the nomination. He thinks Trump voters are angry and incoherent and immune to reason (they are), but he still draws the line at thinking that they’re a reflection of the GOP base.

In his mind, Trump is bringing in “independents” and Democrats and uninformed non-political types and destroying the GOP. I suspect that a lot of folks on the right feel that way. They don’t want to admit that 40+ years of conditioning by the racists, the bigots, and the religious fanatics to be distrusting of “the establishment” has created literal generations of angry morons ripe for the picking by a con artist like Trump.