Actually I think that if Trump gets elected then the liberals in this country would probably find that he isn't really that far from their own point of view and their own political values. Trump being elected would be worse for conservatives than liberals in my personal opinion.
No it wouldn't. It would teach the current GOP establishment leaders a very painful lesson that great American genius Lincoln taught about politics. "You can fool some of the people most of the time, most of the people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time.
The GOP has taken advantage of working class base supporters for near onto 30 years while continuously selling their best economic interest down stream. Trump being elected would mean the absolute end of southern right wing populism in the GOP and that would be about the best possible thing that could happen to the GOP and the nation as a whole.
For years the GOP has used nationalism, racism, religion and xenophobia to sell a bill of goods to working class people because, as events have proven, they have a patronizing and paternalistic attitude about working class people. They have successfully used divisive wedge issues to build a constituency and then have systematically betrayed these supporters, particularly on economic matters where they have proactively endorsed and implemented policies that if executed as designed as intended would materially harm the vast majority of working and middle class people in our nation. They have viewed their own constituents as ignorant, uniformed, simple minded and easily manipulated backward rubes who can easily be convinced to abandon their own best interest by alarming them with the divisive wedge issues that right wing media floods the air waves with.
Well now the chickens have come home to roost. The working and middle class supporters are finally becoming aware of to what extent they have been betrayed by the GOP and how precious few promises to their supporters they have kept over the last 30 years. Now the GOP is suffering the consequences by being rolled up and out maneuvered brilliantly by a cynical businessman who has turned the tables on them using the GOP's own ridiculous and patronizing populist messages.
The GOP figured it could go on for ever using southern populism to motivate the base of their party while utterly ignoring their interests. They believed that they could go on fooling their constituencies for ever and they forgot about Lincolns teachings on politics. You can't fool all the people all the time.
So if Trump wins the nomination and that event causes the GOP to reform and actually represent, defend, support and protect the interests of their constituents, instead of agitating them with a bunch of divisive wedge issues that amount to a small puddle of poo, than Trumps nomination will be a significant event for the GOP.
Cause if the GOP doesn't abandon their Southern Strategy and Supply Side economics it will be just a matter of time that they become a permanent minority in our governance.
