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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere did the educated, upper class elite Republican conservative base go?
Remember them?
Did they all go underground in 2016?
They're just disappeared from the national conversation and public life.
ananda
(28,866 posts)...
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)sop
(10,192 posts)iemanja
(53,035 posts)They care only about low taxes. They are willing to let the MAGATs ruin America as long as they don't have to pay their fair share.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)brush
(53,787 posts)You'd think the bulk of the mainstream republican party of old would've affiliated themselves with groups like the LP, but no, they've just disappeared.
It's kind of shameful they've just let right wing, white supremacist, Putin loving, anti-democracy a-holes take over their party without even a whimper.
Emile
(22,789 posts)canetoad
(17,168 posts)A dog and bark yourself.
They have plenty of thuggish foot soldiers to carry out their agenda without getting their own hands dirty.
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Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)They just don't want to get in the mud with the rednecks.
Amishman
(5,557 posts)joking, but also kind of not joking
kimbutgar
(21,161 posts)Who were members of the country club. Now when you talk with them they dont want to talk politics. I worked years ago with guys like that and see them on FB sometimes. They dont want to talk politics.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Snobby and exclusive, back then.
What do they talk about now when they get together?
Hobbies, I guess. Certainly have nothing much in common with MAGA base.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)This is how Republicans explained away Nixon, then. How would it compare to questions asked of Republicans today, about Trump?
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GoldandSilver
(186 posts)They sit in their corners, applaud when prompted and lick the crumbs from tfgs floor with a smile. Nary a word of criticism or they might get beheaded.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)As long as it keeps them from getting taxed.
There are a few who may even choose not to participate in the GOP, but given the amount of media pushing GOP insanity, most of those elites must be just fine with it.
To hell with society and our offspring.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)
Parenthood as a charitable cause the way a lot of them did. Right up until he threw PP under the bus when he got a brimstone whiff of the culture wars. Then his son Dubya, who had seen the light of the Talibaptists in Texas, ran the bus back and forth over PP for good measure.
Mitt Romney may be the last of the good breed, and hes a Mormon, not a WASP.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Is there any data showing who they are voting for? Supporting with $$$?
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Which is why I say I think a lot of them made a deal with the Devil. Its grotesque.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Racist at core.
And everything that they said was sacred is not, to them.
Not flag, not separation of powers, not rule of law, not equal justice, not even the spilled blood of our GIs. That was all a lie.