Middle Age Riot tweet:

[tblue37]

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Donald Trump didn't reshape the Republican Party.

He revealed it.

[Solly Mack]

1. No shit.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Repubs have been moving in that direction for years and years...

since Reagan, at least, and probably since Nixon to be more accurate.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Amen

[Lettuce Be]

4. I agree 100%. Trump's disregard for law & order showed we have no real law & order

until we have a way to stop a run amok administration.

[liberalla]

5. Yes, he sure did! and it sure is ugly and repulsive (just like him)....

[Martin Eden]

6. He also revealed Republican voters.

Hillary was wrong -- more than half are a basket of deplorables.

[paulkienitz]

7. been saying that for a few years now

Trump didn't just reveal what the Republican party has now become since the era of Gingrich and Dubya, he revealed what had always underlain the popularity of figures like Reagan and Nixon. He revealed why the Republican party retains power even as its ability to make any kind of policy dwindles away as everything they try fails. They used to do a good job of covering it up with policy, but the core appeal of the party has been the nationalist culture war of "real americans" vs everybody else, even back before I was born. Trump's dog whistle is the same one that they've been tooting since the days of Harding and Hoover. The crackdown on the Bonus Army 90 years ago came from the same fascist impulse that January 6th did.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Yes, Yes he did. Look at the votes in the House and Senate over his Impeachment, and later over

the presidential vote tallies on Jan 6. The list of those GOP members of both houses aligns with those who even today espouse Trumpian racist language in response to the potential nomination of a black woman to the Supreme Court. The party is a wholly owned subsidiary of ALEC, its patrons and directors.

[niyad]

9. Exactly.

[patphil]

10. Trump gave permission for the Republicans to be what they truly are.

They merged seamlessly with his mean spirited, angry, hate-filled, violent rhetoric.
He essentially released the hounds from hell, and they are now running amok everywhere in the nation.

[Skittles]

11. CORRECT

the repuke party has stunk it up for DECADES

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. 100% true. He showed them they could be openly & blatantly as

rude, crude, bigoted, mendacious, and belligerently ignorant as they truly were & are and suffer few, if any, negative consequences.