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In reply to the discussion: The GOP will not revert to "normal" after Trump. [View all]Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)in that he put a friendly, smiling face to it all ... They needed that to win until Palin. That opened Pandora's box. But, end of the day, it was inevitable, decades of whistling at racism, mysogony, conservative profiteers distancing the "base" from reality more and more, eventually it was going to be a Frankensteins monsters.
Trump is literal moron, but his one master skill is knowing how to stoke the lesser instincts of the human spirit. The R party was RIPE for him to take the whip from them and the base, and he is sick and depraved enough to know how to leverage that over them.
Until the country clearly recognizes conservatism, and repudiates it, even if we manage to get rid him out of the White House, we are fucked, cause the country just can't stop indulging their fever dreams.