The Republican party has collapsed under its own contradictions, competing impulses and fear of the base
‘All of these phases – what remains of the small-government establishment, the cultural warriors and the hate-filled authoritarians – are engaged in hopeless, hapless combat with each other.’‘All of these phases – what remains of the small-government establishment, the cultural warriors and the hate-filled authoritarians – are engaged in hopeless, hapless combat with each other.
In the 1990s, Newt Gingrich and Fox News’s Roger Ailes ushered the Republican party into cultural conservatism –abortion, contraception, immigration, voting rights, gay marriage, LBGTQ+ rights, and, eventually, against transgender rights, teaching America’s history of racism and, during the pandemic, even against masks.
The party line became confused, its message garbled, its purpose unclear. It thereby created an opening for a third and far angrier phase, centering on resentment and authoritarianism. Enter Donald Trump, the con artist with a monstrous talent for exploiting resentment in service of his ego.Trump turned the Republican party into a white working-class cauldron of bitterness, xenophobia, racism, anti-intellectualism and anti-science paranoia, while turning himself into the leader of a near religious cult bent on destroying anything in his way – including American democracy.
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