Where the Real Power Lies In the GOP

[DonViejo]

January 4, 2018 at 10:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Jon Favreau: “I wasn’t as surprised about how the Republican Party has behaved toward Trump because, though I badly missed the ultimate prediction of who was going to win in the general election, I believed Trump was going to win the primary.”

“Having watched it from my perch at the White House during the Obama administration, I thought the Republican Party had rotted. The party has a base that is constantly in a frenzy because of the right-wing media. That’s the real center of gravity in that party. It’s not the Republicans in Congress; it’s not even really Donald Trump. So to me, that partisanship is wholly due to the fact that the Republican Party has been rotten to its core for some time now.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/04/real-power-lies-gop/

[underpants]

1. They've been dead since 2006

But MSM needs a fight - no one watches a blowout - and the RW media ("Foxworld&quot has conditioned them to believe anything. Also, to not believe the sun rises in the east if the right source doesn't tell you. Trump played off that and they couldn't stop it.

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3. Hes the logical consequence of an extreme propaganda network.

In many ways not much different than Sarah palin. Little to offer beyond being a foxnews viewer.

In many ways, this is traditional politics, very relatable to the voting constituency. Part of that is the “the world is against us” and the “liberals are the enemy” theme.

Donnie didn’t invent any of that, he’s just parroting it back more effectively than Sarah palin could.

[Cosmocat]

7. Been saying this for a LONG time now

people tend to gravitate toward focusing on him, but 45 is a symptom, not the cause ...

[Kirk Lover]

2. "The party has a base that is constantly in a frenzy because of the right-wing media."

That is all.

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4. Increasingly, thats not the base of the party. It *is* the party.

[pansypoo53219]

5. the untamed monster hate media created.

[mountain grammy]

6. Rotten to the core, been watching it rot since the 70's.

[FakeNoose]

8. Here's a little-mentioned fact

I'm not sure how many people know this, but guess where Rush Limbaugh got his start as the poster boy for right-wing nutjob radio? He worked at a small all-news AM radio station in Pittsburgh in the 1980's and nobody had ever heard of him. Guess who bought the radio station? Richard Mellon Scaife.

Those two made some kind of a deal where Limbaugh would spout his racist, sexist crap on the radio and Scaife would make him famous and eventually pay him big money. Somehow his show became syndicated (I'm sure Scaife had lots of rightwing buddies) and within 10 years Limbaugh was known all across America. By the time Scaife died (about 5 years ago) he had blown through millions of dollars on his rightwing newspapers, radio and TV stations. Limbaugh is worth something like $50 million himself now.

[mountain grammy]

10. Wow. Interesting.

Explains nearly everything. Rush wouldn’t have survived without the $$$ to keep him going.

[SeaDoo77]

9. Psychopath Deplorable Traitors

Drooling rat like vermin run the GOP.

Their "primary voters" that believe every lie, and blame everyone but themselves for their lot in life.

The whole pile of them smells like a cat box that hasn't been changed in a month.