The result of dumbing down our citizenry! Donald Trump!

Exactly! Well, more like hope for change!

"Moving back to Louisiana to live really did reveal to me the gap between the conservative punditocracy and those for whom they — for whom we — presume to speak. Ideas and reason matter far less to most people than they do to people like us (this is true of the left as well), not because most people are stupid, but because their mode of experiencing life is not nearly as abstract as ours."

It comes down to one thing and that's white racism.
How do you hide from that fact?

Lots of people on the right are fed up with the feckless RNC and political correctness.  The RNC, Fox and National Review hate Trump and the media only cover him because he's the man bites dog story.  This gives Trump tens of millions of dollars in free advertising.  He may not even make it to November but it's going to be fun to watch.  The RNC is over either way.

The DNC is probably not too far behind!

The next 4 to 8 years should prove very interesting.  

Facisism--or at least one definition of it--is now part of the American discourse and will remain so for at least as long as any of us are alive. The possibility of this turn is new to the Repulucan Party and will threaten the American people as long as the GOP is part of the Koch oligarchy.

What definition of facisism are you speaking about? I'm not challenging you, I'm just not sure what you mean.

Robert Paxton says that fascism is "a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."

So most people in this country survived and overall doing better.
I will say it's not everybody but things are better than 2009!
When he first came into office.

Posted By: mattradd

The next 4 to 8 years should prove very interesting.  

That is the very essence of modern day liberalism as evidenced by the bogus "war on women", Occupy, BLM and the PC culture in general.

A presidency and a political party are not the same!  

Who is it crying 'reverse discrimination?'  

And everyone cries Matt. Even you.

Who hasn't accepted money from Koch?

About any white racist group! Will that do?!?

KKK? 'We can't let those Ni##ers rape our women.' And, the list goes on. Then you have such groups views about the Jews.  

In fact they are called out time and time again by virtually all the right as assholes and bigots.

So, now you're making up the rules as you go along!

So, now you can play with yourself, in your sand box, while I go have fun some place else!  

The Right rejects them almost unanimously. That's the key.

You're no fun!

I don't know if they were on the right or left, or both, but those who fought in our Revolutionary War felt victimized by England!  

That the guy defining Facism to us can't even spell it? I'm impressed. Oh. And the Nazi couldn't spell it either. Too funny.

Obama doesn't have a coalition outside of his cult of personality. At least this cycle, there is no one even close to being able to pick up that support across the board.  

Posted By: bigguy30

 
   

Posted By: mattradd

A presidency and a political party are not the same!  

I think the entire right-wing cry that America gets no respect is part of why I think Paxton's definition applies. The talk about making American great "again..." When were we greater? During Jim Crow? Vietnam? Certainly not anytime in the lifetime of the boys campaigning these days. And of course they want to take America back, but they aren't very clear about how far back they want to take us. So that's how they see us as victims, and by golly they want China, Russia, Mexico, and the EU to start sucking up.

That's how Trump stands out, but the party still belongs to ALEC and Citizens for Prosperity. When the party was a part of...whoops! I almost fell into that old back-in-the-day trap myself!

Trent Lott and Reagan both linked up with some of these groups, and many Republicans openly praise the Oath Keepers and the Sovereign Citizen movements. And who knows what sort of black-hat squad the GOPpers are running through the Family?

Even that smacked of victimization! Victimization from the dull and lazy masses!  

...someone else can't spell it.  "Too funny" as you say.