Q: Will Trump leave office in the next 6 months?
A: I don’t know, but I predict this: By Nov 2020, the GOP will be splintered and drastically weakened.
Today, Trump told Macron that the EU was partly formed to “take advantage of the US.”
Word salad allows Trump to say what he means, and allows his apologists to say that he didn’t say what everyone heard him say.
His hard-core supporters get the message:
EU bad.
The corollary, of course is:
Russia good.
This thread brings us to the era of Nixon, when right wing authoritarians (RWAs) began drifting to the GOP.
Previously, RWAs were distributed among both parties.
RWAs, which we can also call reactionaries, are fundamentally different from genuine conservatives.
For more about RWAs, see: terikanefield-blog.com/authoritarian-…
Conservatives are averse to change.
RWAs are averse to complexity.
While conservatives prefer the status quo, RWAs pine for a bygone era (often mythologized) when they believe world was more orderly and less chaotic.
The "again" in MAGA signifies reactionist politics.
RWAs are willing to smash and destroy.
Lovers of the status quo are uncomfortable with smashing and destroying.
The problem traditional conservatives face is this:
There aren't enough conservatives in the population to achieve electoral majority.
The conservatives evidently thought they'd keep the RWAs on the fringes, getting their votes without embracing their views.
RWAs did what RWAs do: They consolidated power until, in 2016, they took over the GOP.
As part of their propaganda, RWAs call themselves “conservatives.”
They aren't.
They co-opted the word "conservative" so they seem less dangerous.
Whatever stands in Trump's way will be destroyed.
Smashing the status quo makes conservatives uncomfortable.
For decades, Russia has beckoned to American’s far right wing, presenting themselves as the savior of the white race.
Russians infiltrated and funded the NRA.
For more see:
Putin's Russia—unable to join EU because membership requires rule of law—set out to smash the EU.
See, for example⤵️
Mostly they hide their Russia-love in word salad for fear that telling the truth openly will cause members of the GOP leaders to jump ship.
Now courts are ruling against Trump.
cnbc.com/2019/12/03/tru…
When Trump tramples court orders, RWAs cheer.
Conservatives don't like it.
RWAs are fine with trampling courts and rule of law.
Conservatives are not.
The “defense” openly disregards the truth and Rule of Law.
It's a blatant piece of propaganda.
If you have a strong stomach, it's here:
republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Yes, Romney accepted Trump's endorsement.
Yes, he's been spineless and silent.
But surely this goes beyond what even Romney can stomach.
This morning, Romney said this:
By making the subtext text—by coming right out and saying, "We are smashing the Constitution in the name of white supremacy" —those who lean conservative (as opposed to RWA) are forced to decide:
How much can they stomach?
One by one, conservative leaders and prominent conservative members of the community will say, “Enough. I don’t support this.”
Like this⤵️
Trump and his supporters will turn on them with a vengeance.
When a minority party starts to splinter, it’s all over for that party.
We’ve had times in American history, by the way, when major political parties have gone the way of the Dodo and for a decade or two, we had one major party.
It happened after the Whigs dissolved.
If the GOP implodes, don’t worry.
We may have one strong party for a while, but then another will arise.
It took FDR two terms to take us from the age of robber barons to a new deal.
For new followers, I've talked about how repair can happen quickly. FDR taught us how ⤵️
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(I cannot believe I made a toilet joke. Well, it's buried at the bottom of a long thread🤣)
They were pro-slavery, supported Jim Crow, opposed women's rights, thought it was fine to plunder and kill native people.
They'll always be with us.
When we get through this crisis, we need a better way to deal with them.