Trump transformed the GOP... but not by very much

[paulkienitz]

Before Trump, the Republican party was defined by a philosophy of small government, low taxes, free enterprise, and individual responsibility. After Trump, everyone not willing to accept being blatantly lied to, or to accept overt bigotry, has been driven out. The GOP is now defined by cruelty, graft, corruption, violence, insurgency, white supremacy, rejection of basic public health policy, and gargantuan amounts of gaslighting bullshit in place of any discussion of facts.

Though a rather extreme transformation on paper, it has made astonishingly little difference in practice to who is and is not a member of the Republican party.

Trump went digging beneath the surface of the small-government individual-liberty party to find the subterranean layers of racism, corruption, and fascism. He sure didn't have to dig very far.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. What Trump exposed has been for decades.

[enid602]

2. accelerated

I think that one might say that tRump accelerated the transformation of the GOP.

[czarjak]

3. An idiot is a genius to another idiot.

[musclecar6]

4. The republican

Party is now the Deplorable Party ( actually, it always has been).