What we must remember is that the policy positions Trump took moved people to follow him. And most Republicans, including McConnell, agreed w/ Trump’s policies. And if the policies don’t get challenged & debunked, an autocratic candidate will always be able to pick up the mantle.
Until McConnell, Graham, etc. admit they’re the ones who created Trump, the Republican Party is Trump, not the other way around. And until the RNC stops pushing the Reagan-type public policies that are full of racism and classism, they will simply trade one Trump for another.
It may be a candidate that isn’t as vile and fraudulent as Trump, but they will still use a racist Republican mainstay—which was first dubbed by them—“positive polarization,” for the purpose of winning politically.
Jonathan Schell writes about this in his book “The Time of Illusion.” It was a Republican plan to intentionally split the nation in half with racism, classism, homophobia, etc. for the one purpose of holding onto power.
For 52 years, this deliberate illusion has been at work. One person, one president, did not create these divisions. He has only exploited them. In many ways, Trump’s extremism has exposed racism as a fundamental lie about who we are.
The darkness we are experiencing is exposing the darkness that already was. Before COVID, 700 people were dying every day from poverty and low wealth, 250,000 per year. We didn’t want to look at it, but now we are forced to.
Tamir Rice, who was just a baby, and Sandra Bland were both murdered before George Floyd and Breonna Taylor ever were. But now we are forced to see it all at one time. This moment is not about whether a political party is still possible, but is America possible?
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