2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWin 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 Trumps 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.
Trumps decision to ditch his establishment-bred campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in favor of Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon, who shares Trumps scorched-earth approach to politics and his worldview, is perhaps the most overt example of the businessmans 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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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)Before Trump it was known as the Tea Party
0rganism
(23,856 posts)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)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.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)They're out front leading the charge.
Angel Martin
(942 posts)for example, on trade, it appears that the elites of both parties are out of step with their voters
http://www.people-press.org/2016/08/18/clinton-trump-supporters-have-starkly-different-views-of-a-changing-nation/lede_4/