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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 09:19 AM Aug 2016

Win or lose, Trumpism may be here to stay in the GOP

By Karen Tumulty and Robert Costa August 19 at 8:18 PM

The latest shake-up in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has jolted the Republican establishment out of denial to a new realization: Whatever happens to their nominee in November, Trumpism may well endure as a source of ferment in their party.

Until this week, it had been possible for party elders to convince themselves that Trump might prove to be a passing storm in their ranks rather than a portent of climate change. But to their dismay, the party standard-bearer has now signaled that he intends to go for broke in the final stretch of the campaign.

Trump’s decision to ditch his establishment-bred campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in favor of Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon, who shares Trump’s scorched-earth approach to politics and his worldview, is perhaps the most overt example of the businessman’s closing strategy.

Theirs is an amorphous alternative to traditional conservatism — often associated with the “alt right” movement — that is leery of liberal immigration, multiculturalism, military involvement overseas and free trade. Its critics also accuse the alt right of flirting with white supremacism, anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/win-or-lose-trumpism-may-be-here-to-stay-in-the-gop/2016/08/19/66eaa974-661f-11e6-8b27-bb8ba39497a2_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

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Win or lose, Trumpism may be here to stay in the GOP (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
the cat is out of the bag....conservatism is now forever tied to racism and bigotry beachbum bob Aug 2016 #1
Then they're choosing to be perpetual losers. OK by me. MoonRiver Aug 2016 #2
It's been here a while already Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2016 #3
realignment in progress then, two outstanding questions 0rganism Aug 2016 #4
I wouldn't be suprised if a new center-right party emerges from this election meow2u3 Aug 2016 #5
The alt right does not "flirt" with intolerence Bradical79 Aug 2016 #6
realignment will touch both parties Angel Martin Aug 2016 #7

0rganism

(23,856 posts)
4. realignment in progress then, two outstanding questions
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 02:31 PM
Aug 2016

1. how long will it take for the stench of racism and bigotry drive MIC loyalists (the national security bunch) and fiscal conservatives over to the Democrats?
2. how long can the GOP survive as a viable political entity (e.g. getting more votes than the Libertarians) before it dissolves into a bickering conglomeration of fringe white power parties?

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
5. I wouldn't be suprised if a new center-right party emerges from this election
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 02:40 PM
Aug 2016

The center-right, fiscally conservative GOP establishment seems to be distancing themselves from, if not disowning tRump, thus leaving him to his own devices. Only the teabaggers and the rest of the hard-core, bigoted wing of the repuke party is backing the Yammering Yam.

Watch for another conservative party to spring up, even an American Tory party if you will.

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