GOP becoming a cult of know-nothings

[Nordberg]

You are describing Democrats again. Fascism is a form of socialism.

You are wrong again. Fascism is what Trumpism follows. How can you have so much muddled in your brain?

[Frank Apisa]

The Republican Party is becoming a cult. Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump, a defeated former president who refuses to acknowledge defeat. Its ideology is MAGA, Trump's deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.

The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA. Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.

What's happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970. Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump's MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.

You see "the politics of unreason" in today's right-wing extremism. While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that's interests), what's new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic, at least among whites (that's values, and it's been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump's "know nothing" brand of Republicanism).


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ngs/ar-AARe50A

The American right wing has always been a disgrace to our country. Trump did not make the GOP disgusting, he merely used the fact that it was to his advantage. He grifted the GOP morons. Grifting is the one thing Trump does well.

[NiftyNiblick]

The Republican Party has two tiers.

On the tiny top tier are the billionaire corporate oligarchs who run it.

Well below them are the devolved, troglodyte rank and file.

The oligarchs know exactly how to pull their strings.

They know how to make the most miserable, semi-literate working class dolt vote exactly the same as if he/she/it him/her/itself were a billionaire oligarch.

But we must never make the mistake of thinking that they're all one group when formulating a plan to deal with them.

[Into the Night]

You are wrong again. Fascism is what Trumpism follows. How can you have so much muddled in your brain?

Trump is not a socialist. TDS.

[Into the Night]

The American right wing has always been a disgrace to our country. Trump did not make the GOP disgusting, he merely used the fact that it was to his advantage. He grifted the GOP morons. Grifting is the one thing Trump does well.

Void argument fallacy.

[Into the Night]

The Republican Party has two tiers.

On the tiny top tier are the billionaire corporate oligarchs who run it.

Well below them are the devolved, troglodyte rank and file.

The oligarchs know exactly how to pull their strings.

They know how to make the most miserable, semi-literate working class dolt vote exactly the same as if he/she/it him/her/itself were a billionaire oligarch.

But we must never make the mistake of thinking that they're all one group when formulating a plan to deal with them.

The Oligarchy is run by Democrats.

[Concart]

The GOP is becoming the party that understands that we have been betrayed by our leaders and "experts".

What specific GOP policies are designed to enact laws to prevent this. Please link to the specific plank of the GOP platform that addresses your concerns. I’ll wait.

[Truth Detector]

The Republican Party is becoming a cult. Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump, a defeated former president who refuses to acknowledge defeat. Its ideology is MAGA, Trump's deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.

The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA. Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.

What's happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970. Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump's MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.

You see "the politics of unreason" in today's right-wing extremism. While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that's interests), what's new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic, at least among whites (that's values, and it's been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump's "know nothing" brand of Republicanism).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ngs/ar-AARe50A

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Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person.

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[Truth Detector]

facts? they don't need no stinkin' facts. what a bunch of low IQ, low info goobers and droolers. and they like it that way.

Low IQ, lying leftist cunt thinks he knows what a fact is.

Tell me something asshole, what is "smart" about Democratic policies and $6 trillion spending programs? You really are the definition of stupid and repugnant.

[Truth Detector]

They have reached maximum lie factor

I R O N Y!!!!

[Truth Detector]

GOP is a neo-fascist party.

[Truth Detector]

Trumpyiism is a religion. You believe without facts and evidence. You simply ignore them and proceed into the darkness.

Irony from douchebags who believed the Russia Collusion narrative and promote lies every damned day on this forum. You have the severest case of TDS I have seen.

[Truth Detector]

says the bitch who says covid had not killed anybody!!! you need to shoot yourself, bitch.

That is a fact you sociopath. Covid is not directly responsible for a single death. Please provide any evidence it is.

[Truth Detector]

You are wrong again. Fascism is what Trumpism follows. How can you have so much muddled in your brain?

Dumb sociopathic leftist doesn't know the definition of Fascism.

[Truth Detector]

The American right wing has always been a disgrace to our country.
Trump did not make the GOP disgusting, he merely used the fact that it was to his advantage. He grifted the GOP morons.
Grifting is the one thing Trump does well.

^This is the definition of

Projection
Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person.