Thread by @tomiahonen

First Thread: Before Trump

So my Ph D treaties on Twitter, about how Trump split up the GOP. We start with history of course. And we go to the political era before Trump. To the origins.

No. Not Sarah Palin.

No. Not Newt Gingrich. The origins:

George Wallace, the last racist

So reality check to my younger Tweeps, some who do not know this. Up to the 1960s, it was the DEMOCRATIC party that was the racist party and the Republicans stood for equal rights. Yes that is true.

The South had 'Dixie-crats' who were KKK Nazis, Democrats who were openly racist

The last Racist to openly run for President to win some (Southern) states - was former Democrat - turned Independent, George Wallace.

Democrats threw the racists out of their party and embraced the minorities, with a passion. Today it seems impossible to imagine DEMs as racists

George Wallace ran as an Independent (the American Independent Party, does that sound MAGA to you?)

When George Wallace's runs ended, the racists had no party to call their own. They infiltrated the Republican party who tolerated them. THAT WAS A MISTAKE

We need to understand the roots to Maganutters. George Wallace & Dixie-Crat / American Independent Party racists were mostly from the South. Land owners, whites. Gun-lovers. Fake Christians (churches were strongly segregated, so WHITE Christians in South easily racists)

The white racists had often direct lineage back to slave-owners. And broad support of KKK. Denying blacks and other minorities the right to vote. Lynch mobs etc.

This was George Wallace's voter base. Since Wallace, no politician DARED to appeal to the racists, until Trump

I do not mean all gun-lovers are racists
I do not mean all Southern Whites are racists
I do not mean all white Christians are racists
I do not mean all land-owners are racists.

BUT racists tend to be most of those things. They are sick slice of the population. GOP tolerated them

This racist wing would not vote for Obama, a black man. Note there ARE still rcists among Democrats too (only very few).

When RACISTS heard Trump question Obama's nationality (= Kenyan, the birtherism) they found their maga god

Most Republicans are not racist. The party's HISTORY was AGAINST slavery.

After Democrats threw racists out, the GOP accepted them in. This was a horrible mistake. The GOP tolerated the racists for decades, eroding their party

Most MAGANUTTERS are NOT racist

Let me repeat that

Most maganutters are NOT racist

But nearly all American racists are hard core Trump supporters. The deepest core, most loyal Trumpists among maganutters - are racists.

The GOP needs to deal with this now