What is the modern GOP?

[guillaumeb]

When we speak of burying the GOP, or Trump being an aberration, what are we saying?

My view is that, since 1968, the GOP has been the all but official Party of racism and racists.

And that it is the Party of the 1% who own the country.

And that it is the Party of misogyny.

Trump is merely Reagan and Nixon and Bush Sr without the mask.

Trump is, and has been, the epitome of the post 1968 GOP.

[hibbing]

1. Agree

Tiny hands is the natural evolution, and the party is a safe place for racists of all kinds.

Peace

[Initech]

2. Modern GOP is "owning / triggering the liberals".

And whatever it is - through racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, lying, bullshit conspiracy theories... if they can make a comment that offends any one of those groups, they'll do it. They don't care about running the country anymore, they just care about offending the other side.

[guillaumeb]

3. Well said. Nothing to add to that. eom

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. modern GOP is the plaything and tool of billionaires

If you can't buy the world, buy a party to remake it to suit the rich.

[guillaumeb]

5. And they have been doing this since the 1960s.

A reaction to the liberal 60s.

[Caliman73]

6. The GOP, in Trump, has arrived at its logical destination.

As you said, they have signed on for Racism, sexism, jingoism, extreme asset and income inequality, Christian dominionism, and an attitude of self above all others. Trump is the embodiment of all of those things and the GOP continues to follow and support him.

[guillaumeb]

7. And the inevitable destination.

Reagan made a virtue of greed.

And, they call themselves values voters.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. A clusterfuck of a death cult. Who, as you say, devolved into what they are about 5

decades ago. But probably started with McCarthy.

[guillaumeb]

10. Ah yes, I confess that I forgot about him.

And Roy Cohn.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. And to think we're still dealing with that

rancid sociopath Cohn's putrid legacy..... literally.....

[guillaumeb]

15. On that note:

How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America

In 1973, a brash young would-be developer from Queens met one of New York’s premier power brokers: Roy Cohn, whose name is still synonymous with the rise of McCarthyism and its dark political arts. With the ruthless attorney as a guide, Trump propelled himself into the city’s power circles and learned many of the tactics that would inexplicably lead him to the White House years later.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Exactly..... nt

[LBM20]

9. A pile of corrupt disgusting monkey spunk. Anymore questions?

[guillaumeb]

11. Poor monkeys.

No, no questions.

[Garrett78]

12. This post of mine applies:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11508453

[guillaumeb]

14. Allow me to paste it here:

This is why I've been critical of anti-Trump Republicans.

They're in denial. They continue to worship at the altar of Saint Ronnie without acknowledging the linkage between the rise of Trump and the white backlash to the Civil Rights Movement and Nixon's Southern Strategy in the 1960s, the Powell Memo and creation of the Moral Majority in the 1970s, Reagan's dog whistling (like kicking off his campaign with a speech on "states' rights" less than 10 miles from where 3 civil rights workers were murdered) in the 1980s, and so on.

Trump is a symptom and part of a continuum. As intelligent and articulate as the likes of Steve Schmidt are, these anti-Trump Republicans are in denial...the alternative is coming to terms with what they helped make possible. Denial helps assuage guilt, so they opt for denial.

I worry very much about what the dominant narrative will be after Trump is gone. Republicans will try very hard to establish a narrative that is downright dangerous and will only allow for Trump 2.0. Democrats better be ready and better understand the importance of establishing narrative in the public consciousness. Being on the defensive (as we've been against the "liberal media" narrative for the last 30+ years) is a losing position.

Very well said.

[DFW]

17. The Nixon presidency indeed had its equivalent

It followed the transformation of the "Weimar Republic" Republican Party into the "Third Reich" Republican Party. Not only have they not changed that inclination, nor have they indicated any desire to.

[guillaumeb]

18. And Niixon set the bar for GOP treason.

Something that the US corporate media never raises.

[DFW]

19. Nixon didn't have much of a moral compass at all

I don't use the word "corporate" when referring to anything much smaller than General Motors. My dad was a DC print correspondent/reporter for the newspaper of a one-horse town out in the middle of nowhere. His paper, a small family operation, was nominally a "corporation," too. Most businesses are.

[Corgigal]

20. Non Americans

who will take that Russian money all day long, if it hurts average citizens. No biggie.