Maybe the republicans are beginning to see that the alt right and Banon

[applegrove]

faction are not interested in money. They like religious wars and nuclear testosterone contests and to subjugate people. Sadism does not make for millions of happy consumers around the world. Nationalism will not be good for business. It is anti globalism and anti trade. I hope they have made this realization and start putting pressure on Ryan and McConnel, and other republican Congress critters to stop rubber stamping and coddling Trump. It looks like they are just trying to get rid of Banon. That is what is going on. That is not a hopefull sign. Trump is a host who gets taken over by one faction or another. That is all he is. But that is typical of republican presidents in the last 45 years.

[boston bean]

1. They have known it. It is their coalition.

[sharedvalues]

5. +1

[Scarsdale]

2. Obviously, the gop

do not concern themselves with electing an intelligent, honest person into the office of president. Their respect for the office is obviously non existant. Remember when kids WANTED to "grow up to be President"? Well, the gop crushed that ideal, made the presidency a joke. Seems strange that people worldwide can recognize tRump for the buffoon that he is and are shocked he is in the WH, yet the gop acts as though he is normal. Guess that Russian money means a LOT to them, eh? Too bad that not a single member of the gop cares enough about this country to take a stand against an obviously deranged, incompetant, man-child. Are they REALLY the ONLY ones fooled by tRump, or is there some other reason they roll over and play dead for him?

[Hollywood2751]

3. From what I have heard

Trump is disgruntled with Bannon because Trump thinks he might be the one leaking information to the press. Wouldn't THAT be hysterical, if true? Karma!

Globalism will never happen until people stop being so tribal in nature. We have so many special groups of people who need our love and support, yet I think isolating ourselves into groups only feeds the tribalism mentality - not globalism.

[rzemanfl]

6. Welcome to DU. n/t

[gopiscrap]

8. welcome to DU

[sharedvalues]

4. They already know it. The GOP needs those votes.

The GOP knows exactly who they are getting in bed with for votes. They've known since Nixon's Southern (racist) Strategy.


The problem for the GOP is that the policies of their billionaire donors are unpopular. So they need to use identity politics and lies and court hateful people for votes.

[Greybnk48]

7. There's no "alt-right" there is just "right" now, and it's the GOP.

The Republican Party owns this lock, stock and barrel. If you are a member of the Republican Party, you are a member of a racist, bigoted movement. If you don't like that quit the Party. But that's who they are now.

The GOP is the Party of racism and bigotry and has been since the 60's. We need to quit pussyfooting around about this, and the time is now! Call them out.