• downpunxx@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    yep. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how “conservative” Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn’t a symptom, it’s result

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      9 months ago

      Why else was/is GOP leadership shitting themselves over immigration? The “other” is always an easy target to get the morons onboard, but even more so, they didn’t want to see demographic change. Their whole platform relied on it.

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        9 months ago

        It was the story they told to get the morons out to the polls for them. The morons were never supposed to take controlled and yet they did, first with the tea party and then with trump

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            9 months ago

            right, but the elite still controlled things. the dumb rubers were meant to fall for it and vote for the tax cutters. but then the dumb rubes primaried too many republicans and the inmates now run the asylum.