The G.O.P. Is a Mess. Its Not All Trumps Fault.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. Good basic summary - thanks.

Some here with better historical knowledge than I can expand, but from what I've read on GOP history, most of those corrupt veins you mentioned were there in-hiding decades before Eisenhower. Most are properties of the wealthy white business-class male (industrialists, resource kings, retailers and land barons) - overtly with tax resentment and covertly in racism.

We've watched those evil veins expose themselves and slowly come into maturity starting with the days of Nixon and his Southern strategy, and now many are openly embraced by the public - wrapped in fear, flag, and what I call Freeligion.

We can talk all day about how and when it happened, but now must get to work on how to reverse this plague on our society.