Sorry, someone had to say it. But seriously, they don’t even stand for anything. Everything is just culture-war bullshit and blaming Democrats for imagined evils, they have no desire or ability to actually lead. They can’t even *fund the government or elect their own Speaker…
It’s so clear that the GOP is flailing. They’ve only won a single presidential popular vote since 1988. Old white people are dying and brown kids are reaching voting age. Young people at large are overwhelmingly fed up with the GOP. They are losing the demographics game big time, and I think they know it.
And I think the GOP base knows it deep down, too, and I think Obama was really emblematic of it. Suddenly, they had to wake up to a country that was rapidly shifting, a black man was president, gay people were getting rights and becoming broadly accepted in society, people were starting to talk about racism as an actual problem again, movies and advertising were getting more diversity, trans people were getting rights… And I think this deeply unsettled a significant chunk of the population who felt like their control over America was waning, hence the Tea Party, hence the MAGA movement.
This fascistic movement we’re seeing from the GOP isn’t logical at all. It’s losing them elections left and right, but if they don’t pursue this, they lose all their primaries, because this movement is about the Republican base lashing out over them losing demographically.
The GOP is in a rough spot right now. Their whole thing for the past 40 years was about fighting boogymen to court the evangelical and fundamentalist sects, while relying on votes from the moderates who like the economic or foreign policy.
Then Obama proved the impossible by being a largely successful presidentwhile scandalously having a darker skin tone. From there, the party’s culture shifted right and they started actually trying to change things that should’ve stayed as punching bags.
“Look, we’re fighting for the rights of unborn children here but the evil leftists have too much support. You better keep voting for us or it’s going to get worse”
A phrase like that will hook the far right into voting for you, and the moderates will basically ignore it and continue to vote for you because they want to keep immigration to a minimum or keep taxes where they are.
Now that the GOP started actually pushing for sweeping social change, the far right got a taste of blood and are screaming for more while the moderates are starting to look to the dems as they’re now far more likely to keep things normal.
Mostly they’re just neoliberals. They’re in it for the pay, pension, insider trading and open bribes. The only thing they’re interested in “leading” is other pigs to the trough.
But as a means to that end, they’ve spent decades pandering to every form of bigotry and idiocy they could wring a vote from and now it’s starting to consume them from the inside out.
They’re not worth any sympathy though. If their fascist faction started dragging black people from their homes and executing them, they’d only be upset that they couldn’t use them as slaves to maximise profits.
“We’ve tried nothing, and we’re out of ideas!”
Sorry, someone had to say it. But seriously, they don’t even stand for anything. Everything is just culture-war bullshit and blaming Democrats for imagined evils, they have no desire or ability to actually lead. They can’t even *fund the government or elect their own Speaker…
It’s so clear that the GOP is flailing. They’ve only won a single presidential popular vote since 1988. Old white people are dying and brown kids are reaching voting age. Young people at large are overwhelmingly fed up with the GOP. They are losing the demographics game big time, and I think they know it.
And I think the GOP base knows it deep down, too, and I think Obama was really emblematic of it. Suddenly, they had to wake up to a country that was rapidly shifting, a black man was president, gay people were getting rights and becoming broadly accepted in society, people were starting to talk about racism as an actual problem again, movies and advertising were getting more diversity, trans people were getting rights… And I think this deeply unsettled a significant chunk of the population who felt like their control over America was waning, hence the Tea Party, hence the MAGA movement.
This fascistic movement we’re seeing from the GOP isn’t logical at all. It’s losing them elections left and right, but if they don’t pursue this, they lose all their primaries, because this movement is about the Republican base lashing out over them losing demographically.
The GOP is in a rough spot right now. Their whole thing for the past 40 years was about fighting boogymen to court the evangelical and fundamentalist sects, while relying on votes from the moderates who like the economic or foreign policy.
Then Obama proved the impossible by being a largely successful presidentwhile scandalously having a darker skin tone. From there, the party’s culture shifted right and they started actually trying to change things that should’ve stayed as punching bags.
“Look, we’re fighting for the rights of unborn children here but the evil leftists have too much support. You better keep voting for us or it’s going to get worse”
A phrase like that will hook the far right into voting for you, and the moderates will basically ignore it and continue to vote for you because they want to keep immigration to a minimum or keep taxes where they are.
Now that the GOP started actually pushing for sweeping social change, the far right got a taste of blood and are screaming for more while the moderates are starting to look to the dems as they’re now far more likely to keep things normal.
Mostly they’re just neoliberals. They’re in it for the pay, pension, insider trading and open bribes. The only thing they’re interested in “leading” is other pigs to the trough.
But as a means to that end, they’ve spent decades pandering to every form of bigotry and idiocy they could wring a vote from and now it’s starting to consume them from the inside out.
They’re not worth any sympathy though. If their fascist faction started dragging black people from their homes and executing them, they’d only be upset that they couldn’t use them as slaves to maximise profits.