I share your outrage and contempt for the Followers of Trump. We really need a name for their movement, because we'll be living with them for a long time. For now, I think "white nationalist" is an adequately descriptive term, though it doesn't capture the whole misogyny dimension. "White phallocentric nationalists"?
If white nationalists capture the GOP permanently after this election, that will represent not an ideological realignment, so much as a social or class realignment: Reactionary white people/authoritarians setting themselves apart from a "mainstream" from which they've become completely alienated.
That would unwind the great ideological sorting after WWII, when the parties shifted from social alignments to increasingly pure ideological alignments. If the Democratic Party adapts, it can become a really big tent as the mainstream party, where even conservatives are welcome...as long as they're not rabid crypto-fascists.
One of the long term effects is going to be the alienation of professional modern women from the GOP, at the very time that Democrats elect such a woman to the White House. The Democrats could become something of a women's party, which might be a necessary counterbalance to the GOP's institutional misogyny.
"If the Democrats would only..." is a phrase historically fraught with irony; they're not really an organized political party. But maybe the right has tripped on its own...stop, I'm not a common genital-grabbing trump...maybe the right has finally hoisted itself way up on its own petard, far enough that even the Democrats can stumble across the finish line.
Call me a pollyanna if you will. Go on, seriously. I'm a pollyanna. It keeps me somewhat sane, for certain values of sane.
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- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79
- So, now we know that subverting democracy can work out for Republicans...
- pssst! The comment that resurrected the thread is "BEYOND the end of time..." about 20 lines down.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "we were best buddies"
- If SCOTUS deadlocks, lower court rulings stand. Obama has stacked the lower circuit courts with blue judges
- Obama should immediately nominate Eric Holder to replace him.
- I'll just let you guys revel in it. N/T
- We need to join with Clarence Thomas in praying for his soul.
- Revel...?