re: #44 EPR-radar

The Goldwater wing of the GOP eventually took over. It seems likely to me that the Trump wing of the GOP will also eventually take over.

This is a safe bet because there no significant opposition to Trump within the ranks of GOP leadership, and there is little chance of Trump losing by enough of a margin to discredit Trumpism.

I think you may be right. This cycle demonstrated that much of the Repubican base really doesn’t give a shit about tax breaks for the top 1% or whatever else Paul Ryan et al have been peddling. They don’t read The National Review or the op ed page of The Wall Street Journal. They are convinced that if a person with brown skin has something, then it must have been taken from a white person. They are afraid that they will be outnumbered and their place of former privilege will be forgotten. Truthfully, many of them have never had much privilege and they have been badly screwed over by neo-liberal policies.

The Reagan Coalition is dead, and the Racist/Populist Coalition is ascendant.