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From the article:
Speaking rapid-fire with no spot for others to jump into the conversation, Mr. Trump makes everyone a co-conspirator to his preferred set of facts, or delusions. I have felt it this president building with his words a web of alternative reality and busily wrapping it around all of us in the room.
I must have agreed that he had the largest inauguration crowd in history because I didnt challenge that. Everyone must agree that he has been treated very unfairly. The web building never stops.
To read more:
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/01/james-comey-explains-how-trump-has-eaten-the-soul-of-the-republican-party.html
It is nice of Comey to state the obvious, but Comey's own key role in attacking HRC immediately prior to election day cannot be forgotten.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)In my opinion.
And as a private citizen, Comey can do nothing to atone for what he did to throw the election.
This letter of his is far too little, far too late.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)JHB
(37,128 posts)He ain't changing what's underneath, he's just makes them feel free to let their junk show out in the open.
Trump is the true face of the GOP.
Caliman73
(11,690 posts)This is a decades long project. The GOP has been stirring up racial tensions since Nixon's administration. They know that they represent the interests of only the wealthiest people with their economic policies. They had to cobble together a coalition based on White Supremacy. Most people while affected by the institutional racial attitudes, are not overtly racist or White Supremacists. They reject the ideas of over racism even if they are not aware of the lasting effects of the history of the country on people of color.
The problem is that there is still a pretty sizable segment of the population that is in fact overtly racist or at least comfortable with racism. The vast majority of those people are aligned with the GOP because the GOP has signaled for the last 40+ years that they are the party that supports those views.
Trump, as you said, has thrown off the mask and is no longer dog whistling but openly signaling the support for racial bias and White Supremacy. He also advocates clearly that making money by any means, is the policy of the administration. Only Republicans who are still trying to hide the obvious facts of what the Republican Party is about, are saying the Trump is eating the soul of the party. Everyone else knows that the Republican Party sold its soul to the devil in the 1960's.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)There were some decent republicans but they aren't serving today. The GOP may call themselves the party of Lincoln but merely by name only. Hell they aren't even the party of Eisenhower.
JHB
(37,128 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,359 posts)unblock
(51,973 posts)nixon planted the seed, and every republican leader from reagan and gingrich on through donald fraud, along with hate radio and foxnews and extremists like ann coulter have been spreading, uh, fertilizer... like crazy, so it should come as no surprise that it's grown into something uncontrollable.
donald fraud is merely more obvious and unsubtle than the others. but they've all been bigots, they've all been disrespectful of democrats and the rule of law, and they've all felt fully justified in winning at any cost, all while holding democrats' feet to the fire over the slightest perceived or even completely made-up transgression.
if donald fraud is feasting on the soul of the republican party, it's only because the republican party eagerly served it up on a golden platter.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Donald Trump is Ronald Reagan, unmasked.
Reagan could pretend to be normal. Trump cannot.
niyad
(112,424 posts)of the reasons we are now suffering under that orange menace.