Why is anyone surprised that the RW chickens have come home to roost?

[stopbush]

We have heard for years in the media and on our TV machines that the Rs were heading to political oblivion because they were becoming exclusively a southern regional party that had no success attracting emerging voting blocs like minorities and Hispanics. Even the RNC openly acknowledged the problem after the last election.

All Trump has done has been to rip away the remaking façade of faux decency the Rs used as cover to expose what everybody has told us was already there.

Honestly, it's like the media believed that their "no one trusts Hillary" bullshit was going to balance out the myriad problems the Rs have these days, and that there was still a chance that just maybe the bigots had enough cover left with enough white males to pull out one more victory at the end.

Hasn't the logical narrative all along been "just as we predicted. It's just happening faster than we though it would?" Why think that a smear directed at a lone politician would serve as a counterweight to the mountain of problems the Rs face these days?

[unblock]

1. i've been waiting since reagan & gingrich for them to pay a price for fanning the flames of bigotry

so, faster than we thought it would?

hardly.

i'm surprised, first, that it took so long; and, second, i really don't see what it is about trump that triggered their house of cards coming down that somehow shrub or palin or the tea party or fox news or any of a long list of crazy bigots didn't do.

trump is not much different, but somehow he's the straw that broke the camel's back.

[stopbush]

2. The reason we has to wait has to do entirely with voter demographics.

We've now reached the tuning point where there is a significant non-white vote in the country. Until that happened we were subject to the voting status quo that normalized the bigotries.

[Renaissance Man]

3. Not surprised.

... and I even think that mainstream Republicans, who actually want their party to get back to one that doesn't openly peddle hate have been seeing this for quite some time. They were at least smart enough to cloud their hate and bigotry in coded language.

Now, there is no question. With their current nominee, the GOP is openly saying that they want a country in which bigots wave their hate flags loud and proud in the face of a growing demographic that is a lot more diverse than the Lee Atwater days.

Even Jindal (as disastrous of a right wing tool that he was) realized this after the 2012 election. The party of stupid wanted to stay there, and these are the consequences, no matter how many voter ID laws they wanted to enact.