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15. Agree. Conservatives have become dysfunctionally reactionary

and suffer from an extremely bad leadership that even more dysfunctionally reactionary. The Republican congressional caucuses are both farther right than their electorate and significantly farther right than ever before in history. Their extremist ideology has lead them to prey on instead of serve their own constituencies.

The result has been destructively ignorant and mindless rebellions against the party leadership: The Koch-created Tea Party scheme that lead its victims even farther right and now the intentionally destructive Trump rebellion.

Hidden behind all the discussion about racism and xenophobia is the trumpsters' very real populist passion to defeat the extremist Ryan, McConnell, ultraconservative billionaire-type schemes and return to the prosperity once gained by worker power and a certain degree of progressivism. Of course, they're going about it all wrong.