GOP becoming a cult of know-nothings

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The Republican Party is becoming a cult. Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump, a defeated former president who refuses to acknowledge defeat. Its ideology is MAGA, Trump's deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.

The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA. Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.

What's happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970. Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump's MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.

You see "the politics of unreason" in today's right-wing extremism. While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that's interests), what's new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic, at least among whites (that's values, and it's been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump's "know nothing" brand of Republicanism).


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-becoming-a-cult-of-know-nothings/ar-AARe50A
 
guno said:
The Republican Party is becoming a cult. Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump, a defeated former president who refuses to acknowledge defeat. Its ideology is MAGA, Trump's deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.

The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA. Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.

What's happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970. Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump's MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.

You see "the politics of unreason" in today's right-wing extremism. While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that's interests), what's new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic, at least among whites (that's values, and it's been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump's "know nothing" brand of Republicanism).


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-becoming-a-cult-of-know-nothings/ar-AARe50A
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facts? they don't need no stinkin' facts. what a bunch of low IQ, low info goobers and droolers. and they like it that way.
 
guno said:
The Republican Party is becoming a cult. Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump, a defeated former president who refuses to acknowledge defeat. Its ideology is MAGA, Trump's deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.

The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA. Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.

What's happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970. Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump's MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.

You see "the politics of unreason" in today's right-wing extremism. While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that's interests), what's new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic, at least among whites (that's values, and it's been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump's "know nothing" brand of Republicanism).


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-becoming-a-cult-of-know-nothings/ar-AARe50A
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GOP is a neo-fascist party.
 
Trumpyiism is a religion. You believe without facts and evidence. You simply ignore them and proceed into the darkness.
 
And now for another cut and paste session by someone that has no mind:
guno said:
The Republican Party is becoming a cult.
Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump,
a defeated former president
who refuses to acknowledge defeat.
Its ideology is MAGA,

Trump's deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.
The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA.
Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.
What's happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new.
o understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970. Right-wing extremism,
now embodied in Trump's MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.
You see "the politics of unreason" in today's right-wing extremism.
While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that's interests),
what's new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic,
at least among whites
(that's values, and it's been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump's "know nothing" brand of Republicanism).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-becoming-a-cult-of-know-nothings/ar-AARe50A
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Nothing more than a Holy Link and Quote. As is usual for MSN, it's filled with TDS, hate, and fiction.

Much of what it describes actually applies to Biden and Democrats. It also seems embarrassed about people thinking America is great. It's just the same old hate America song.
 
"They did not understand the importance of truth and so they failed to practice it" should be on America's tombstone.
 
guno said:
The Republican Party is becoming a cult. Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump, a defeated former president who refuses to acknowledge defeat. Its ideology is MAGA, Trump's deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.

The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA. Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.

What's happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970. Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump's MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.

You see "the politics of unreason" in today's right-wing extremism. While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that's interests), what's new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic, at least among whites (that's values, and it's been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump's "know nothing" brand of Republicanism).


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-becoming-a-cult-of-know-nothings/ar-AARe50A
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The American right wing has always been a disgrace to our country. Trump did not make the GOP disgusting, he merely used the fact that it was to his advantage. He grifted the GOP morons. Grifting is the one thing Trump does well.
 
The Republican Party has two tiers.

On the tiny top tier are the billionaire corporate oligarchs who run it.

Well below them are the devolved, troglodyte rank and file.

The oligarchs know exactly how to pull their strings.

They know how to make the most miserable, semi-literate working class dolt vote exactly the same as if he/she/it him/her/itself were a billionaire oligarch.

But we must never make the mistake of thinking that they're all one group when formulating a plan to deal with them.
 
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