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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 08:30 AM Aug 2016

We’re Witnessing History: The Extreme Right Just Seized Control of the GOP

It is not an overstatement to say that Bannon is the most prominent mainstreamer of white nationalism in the country today. And now he is running Trump’s campaign.

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We sit at a historical pivot point – at the end of the presidency of our nation’s first Black president and on the precipice of the likely presidency of our nation’s first woman president. White nationalism is about maintaining white supremacy; it is also, and equally, about maintaining male supremacy. The patriarchy and white power have always coexisted, reinforcing each other in a recursive loop to uphold the dominance of white males in America.


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The Republican Party has spent decades mastering the exploitation of fear and bigotry, while pretending they weren’t. They winked at white nationalists, even as they publicly disavowed them – and now those restless chickens are coming home to roost.

Trump is not an anomaly; he was an inevitability.

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We’re Witnessing History: The Extreme Right Just Seized Control of the GOP (Original Post) kpete Aug 2016 OP
As we say in these parts malaise Aug 2016 #1
That's the more polite and, indeed, more elegant way to put it. calimary Aug 2016 #16
I'm going to steal that malaise Aug 2016 #19
Please do! calimary Aug 2016 #25
I was going to say awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #35
The Velvet Putsch -- Russo-Republican Style RapSoDee Aug 2016 #2
Reichstag Fire and all. forest444 Aug 2016 #11
When viewed through the lens of white nationalism Ligyron Aug 2016 #3
Great OP. So true and very scary. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any indication that the GOP skylucy Aug 2016 #4
Donald Trump is a damned birther workinclasszero Aug 2016 #5
That's why any effort to reach out to people of color is a very bad, and sad, joke. calimary Aug 2016 #23
You expressed what I feel 1000% workinclasszero Aug 2016 #26
I just realized we have another nickname for The Donald! calimary Aug 2016 #32
Describes him to a tee! workinclasszero Aug 2016 #34
Currently listening to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" paparush Aug 2016 #6
God, I hadn't thought of that. Repugs are always working on an "October surprise" . . . brush Aug 2016 #9
as history teaches us, dirty tricks are not beyond them vlyons Aug 2016 #20
Look out for any sudden increases in insurance on Trump buildings SwankyXomb Aug 2016 #27
I wouldn't put it past him. brush Aug 2016 #28
Just recently read "In the Garden of Beasts" trixie Aug 2016 #22
The GOP fucked themselves. Xolodno Aug 2016 #7
K&R "Trump is not an anomally; he was an inevitability." Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2016 #8
That is one damn disturbing GIF you have there hueymahl Aug 2016 #12
Unfortunately, that is GREAT! (And very telling) 66 dmhlt Aug 2016 #15
Shit... calimary Aug 2016 #24
Seized, they were invited in, given oily rags, matches, a pound of meth, and told to have fun NightWatcher Aug 2016 #10
well, more like the gop embraced the wacko right-wingnut spanone Aug 2016 #13
He's right. "the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism" Grins Aug 2016 #14
the "good Republicans" stood by and did nothing vlyons Aug 2016 #17
For Sure colsohlibgal Aug 2016 #18
"Trump is not an anomaly; he was an inevitability" Soxfan58 Aug 2016 #21
I am not sure that is a totally accurate description. ChairmanAgnostic Aug 2016 #29
Nah! It's just the secondary stage of syphilis, before they all start losing their minds, entirely. TheBlackAdder Aug 2016 #30
Damn skippy! nt MrScorpio Aug 2016 #31
Is this a step towards a victory for the extreme right nationally or towards their oblivion? pampango Aug 2016 #33
The GOP couldn't field a candidate this year. Sixteen tried and got nothing. librechik Aug 2016 #36
Without question Trump is a creation of their own making Egnever Aug 2016 #37

calimary

(80,700 posts)
16. That's the more polite and, indeed, more elegant way to put it.
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:13 AM
Aug 2016

Around our house it's a big more coarse. "You crawled into bed with him. Now he gets to fuck you."

To borrow from their own 2012 convention campaign slogan: YOU BUILT IT! YOU built this, GOP. Now live in it. Now you own it.

And it owns you.

calimary

(80,700 posts)
25. Please do!
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 12:11 PM
Aug 2016

Seems to me that's exactly what is happening now. THEY crawled into bed with this monster. What on earth did they expect, then?

I lived with a mother who was so deeply in denial about various issues in her life that I could have written a paper about it. Even as someone with no PhD. The denial I see throughout the GOP is absolutely staggering! Jaw-dropping! It would be utterly fascinating to watch if one was a citizen of some other country, and I'm sure, for such individuals, it is. However, being a citizen of THIS country which this beast presumes to be worthy of leading, it's increasingly disturbing, distressing, and by now rather horrifying.

As far as I'm concerned, he can fuck the GOP all he wants. I just hope the results of this upcoming election make it stop THERE.

Ligyron

(7,592 posts)
3. When viewed through the lens of white nationalism
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:44 AM
Aug 2016

his ridiculous campaign actually starts to make sense.

He knows he can't win the election so he'll just go flat-out white power now trying to mainstream this disgusting ideology. His hire of Bannon pretty much confirms it.

Get ready for some real lunacy now. Might actually be amusing as people like Paul Ryan and other apologists struggle to explain their support for Trump in the coming GOP apocalypse.

skylucy

(3,734 posts)
4. Great OP. So true and very scary. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any indication that the GOP
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:05 AM
Aug 2016

understands that their past actions have lead to the rise of Trump. If Trump was ahead in the polls, the GOP would be embracing his fear mongering and bigotry.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. Donald Trump is a damned birther
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:31 AM
Aug 2016

Trump is a teabag lying sack of shit, refuses to release his financial info because he is owned and operated by Russian mobsters and dictator Vladimir Putin!

I would say that is pretty unprecedented, eh?

This is the end results of decades of unrestricted Hate radio lies and racist Fox news white privilege hysteria.

The republican party hates real America with a passion. They even spit on the grave of an American war hero that gave his life for this country!

What more does a person need to know about the republican party?

calimary

(80,700 posts)
23. That's why any effort to reach out to people of color is a very bad, and sad, joke.
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:53 AM
Aug 2016

Last edited Thu Aug 18, 2016, 03:38 PM - Edit history (1)

They're never gonna forget how Trump led the birther movement against President Obama, and not casually, either. He jumped right in with both feet and his mouth wide open and flapping a mile a minute, and elbowed everybody else out of the way. Wore it around like one of those sequined satin Miss USA cordons that slides over one shoulder and down across the chest to the opposite hip.

I won't, either. I won't EVER forget the hatchet-man job Trump tried to do on President Obama. I'll never forget the fast-talking diarrhea of the mouth he spewed about all the investigators HE personally had sent to crawl all over Hawaii to "find out what is going on", that phrase he just LOVES to say, and how "they can't believe what they're finding." Or more like "theycan'tbelievewhatthey'refinding." Which, as we all know was just another filthy lie. Which, as we all know now, was completely not true - he never sent ANYBODY over to investigate ANY of this.

That fast spew of strung-together words was the same kind of shit that he rapid-fired out of his lying mouth about Mrs. Khan and why her religion somehow kept her from speaking out in public and insinuating sinister reasons why she didn't say anything onstage with her husband at the convention. He seems to specialize in those fast diarrhea-squirts of words and phrases that he spews, that ALL run together, in a barrage of three or four or five sentences in one.

He's a liar. HE. IS. A. LIAR. Sorry, William Safire, TRUMP is the one who's the "congenital liar" (NOT Hillary as the late NYTimes shit-stirrer tried to slander her -- https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-congenital-liar-other-003100002.html?ref=gs ).

I'm thoroughly convinced by now that Trump is also a racist. We've all known he's quite the sexist. He's a shyster and a cheat. AND a very BAD businessman whose most steady silent partner was usually a sneaky-ass bankruptcy "out" or running to his rich daddy to pump another infusion of a few million dollars into his IV drip when his shifty business "accidents" landed him in a proverbial emergency room.

I remembered that just days ago while watching him deliver a speech in that all-white community in Wisconsin - and inexplicably chose THAT lily white suburb in which to issue a verbal reach-out to African Americans. For Pete's sake, Donald, do you REALLY think you're gonna make inroads with Black voters? After everything you did to try to negate and delegitimize the Presidency of our first Black President? Do you SERIOUSLY think that block of voters is going to forget that? Dayum, Donald, you're not just a liar, you're an idiot, too.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
26. You expressed what I feel 1000%
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:30 PM
Aug 2016

about that POS birther racist Trump!

It burns my ass that the MSM suddenly forgets all about Trumps extreme racism and birther advocacy now that the slimeball is running for President!

paparush

(7,964 posts)
6. Currently listening to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:34 AM
Aug 2016

via Audible.

Just waiting for the Trump Reichstag fire.

brush

(53,475 posts)
9. God, I hadn't thought of that. Repugs are always working on an "October surprise" . . .
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:44 AM
Aug 2016

in presidential cycles. A last-ditch effort could be a ginned-up, false flag terrorist attack to swing the election.

Reagan and Nixon both pulled off traitorous actions to win.

SwankyXomb

(2,030 posts)
27. Look out for any sudden increases in insurance on Trump buildings
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 01:43 PM
Aug 2016

Especially ones that are losing money. He's exactly the guy who would blow up his own stuff for both political and monetary profit.

trixie

(867 posts)
22. Just recently read "In the Garden of Beasts"
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:32 AM
Aug 2016

by Larson.

I am glad I didn't give it away for it is a map to what is going on now.

Xolodno

(6,341 posts)
7. The GOP fucked themselves.
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:40 AM
Aug 2016

They would pander to the extreme right just enough to get their votes.

But once they gerrymandered things to keep a majority in the House of Representatives, they ended up with a larger extreme right base. Now they can't just "pander to them just enough". So even establishment legislation where Democrats would be willing to meet halfway on is now to liberal.

Victims of their own "success". This is what happens when you spend eight years being against something and not developing ideas.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
10. Seized, they were invited in, given oily rags, matches, a pound of meth, and told to have fun
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:46 AM
Aug 2016

They then proceeded to party and burn the place down.

Grins

(7,134 posts)
14. He's right. "the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism"
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:50 AM
Aug 2016
"We’ve had this view that the voters were with us on conservatism - philosophical, economic conservatism. In reality, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism. It’s a common observation on the left, but it’s an observation that a lot of us on the right genuinely believed wasn’t true - which is that conservatism has become, and has been for some time, much more about white identity politics than it has been about conservative political philosophy." - Forbes magazine and Reich-wing corporate pharma shill, Avik Roy, saying he is no longer a Republican.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
17. the "good Republicans" stood by and did nothing
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:16 AM
Aug 2016

Our fathers and grandfathers fought the Nazis, because "good Germans" stood by and did nothing. I'm curious to see if the "good Republicans" flee in horror to create a new party, flock to the Dems and try to take us over, quit politics altogether, or continue to be "good republicans" and do nothing. What do you think? As I've said many times, IMHO, the current Republican party is a criminal enterprise.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
18. For Sure
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 11:16 AM
Aug 2016

The parallels between Trump's hard right base and the early followers of Hitler are chilling.

We must crush this movement.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
29. I am not sure that is a totally accurate description.
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 02:25 PM
Aug 2016

although, I agree with the end result. Seizing control implies that the targeted organization existed and would continue to exist in its same form and function but for the hostile take-over. I don't think that applies to the GOP today. Trump did not seize control, so much as exploit the growing ruptures, cracks, and pre-existing disarray.

Ever since the rise of the TeaAssholes, the GOP began to misfire as a relevant, functioning, rational party of leadership or opposition, as the case may be at any particular time. Once a minority group within the GOP began holding the entire country hostage, I don't believe that the GOP could be considered a working national party.

Simply saying "NO!" Is not a rational policy position, unless you are a spoiled 3 year old brat. (Cue mental image of Trump)

The party targeted moderates, socially liberal, and economically savvy GOPers, and replaced them with Dement-ed types. Even now, I can easily name 10 senators without trying hard, who do not have the nation's best interest at heart. They obstruct, they threaten, they lie. But they never compromise.

The state of the GOP as of 2014, 2015, was like a train approaching a incredibly deep gorge, where global climate change had washed out the bridge, without an engineer, without functioning brakes, increasing speed as it barreled downhill. That is what Trump was savvy enough to recognize and diagnose. He saw a great opportunity to take apart any opposition, so he went forward.

He picked them off, one by one, starting with the strongest opponent, and after demolishing one, he'd move on to the next one. He didn't have to go after those who the general public believed belonged in a Sanitorium, in fact, by ignoring them, he effectively castrated them.

One by one, the GOP media darlings were trashed, folded, mutilated, spindled, torn, bent, ripped apart, sliced, diced, and made into mincemeat. And because Trump has no standards except for his love of self, they were repeatedly taken off-guard and surprised that they could not combat his attacks, much less find an effective defense. Bush, Rubio, Christie, Cruz, - all the ones that the GOP bRain tRusts held in high regard and had hoped would/could/should beat Hillary. Each one thoroughly and completely shattered, to such a great extent that they may not survive in their current offices when reelection comes around. In Bush's case, it is fair to say his career as a politician is deader than a sun dried haddock hanging on some Scottish ocean front.

The party was trying and succeeding to lose the Yute, people of color, women, and the better educated long before the Era of Trumpenstien. He simply took great advantage of their internal problems, and wiped their asses with battery acid soaked baby wipes. Herr Hair is no dummy, even when he plays one on TV. The fact that he has mental issues is beside the point. One can be both street smart and mentally ill.

I think it would be more accurate that he took a dying party, and put it out of its misery. While putting the rest of us (including the victims of trump - the GOP, independents, even foreigners across this flat earth) into a state of misery from which it will be hard to escape.

I do wholeheartedly agree that something like a Donald Trump was inevitable, given the recent history of the party. But it was always meant to be. For three decades, the GOP was trying to marry social conservatives, economic conservatives, TeaAssholes, and NeoConMen with ultra conservative christianists - There isn't a shotgun big or powerful enough to make it a permanent, thriving, and stable relationship. They had too many serious policy differences. It was bound to implode, explode, shatter, rust to pieces, and/or spontaneously combust. I am actually surprised it took as long as it did. I think the Kochs and other conservative billionaires gave them a lease on life that only delayed the inevitable supernova-like collapse.

TheBlackAdder

(28,076 posts)
30. Nah! It's just the secondary stage of syphilis, before they all start losing their minds, entirely.
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 02:27 PM
Aug 2016

.


This is where all the open sores start to manifest on all body cavities and unsightly skin rashes appear.

There will probably be a very short or non-existent latency stage, before jumping right into the late stages.


Granted, they already have numbness, blindness and dementia, so it will be difficult to see the late stage appear.


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pampango

(24,692 posts)
33. Is this a step towards a victory for the extreme right nationally or towards their oblivion?
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 04:35 PM
Aug 2016

Seizing control of the conservative party makes sense as a step towards control of government. OTOH, if it leads that party to extinction the far-right will share the same fate.

librechik

(30,663 posts)
36. The GOP couldn't field a candidate this year. Sixteen tried and got nothing.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:28 AM
Aug 2016

So they let the Trump Show on stage, and didn't have the strength to fight back. Unfortunately he's not a Republican and everyone knows it. Now this Nationalist trend breaks out in the middle of Trump's camp.
But the Republican leadership, having begged the Nazis to join them, are in no position to say no. Fortunately, no one will vote for them this time.

They have purified themselves out of existence.

God Knows what will happen once Hillary is out go office.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
37. Without question Trump is a creation of their own making
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:32 AM
Aug 2016

the rest of the field on stage from him were not much different. To pretend Trump is an anomaly you would have to close your eyes and plug your ears.

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