Where did the educated, upper class elite Republican conservative base go?

[Grasswire2]

Remember them?

Did they all go underground in 2016?

They're just disappeared from the national conversation and public life.

[ananda]

1. Yes, most Reeps look and act like dumpster trash.

...

[Phoenix61]

2. They are now registered Independents. nt

[onecaliberal]

9. Still voted for piss wig and his party.

[sop]

3. Most are busy pulling the strings, manipulating MAGA foot soldiers to do their bidding.

[iemanja]

4. They are still there

They care only about low taxes. They are willing to let the MAGATs ruin America as long as they don't have to pay their fair share.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. The GOP base has mostly consisted of hateful rednecks for at least 40 years (n/t)

[brush]

6. There's the "Lincoln Project" and all those associated with them.

You'd think the bulk of the mainstream republican party of old would've affiliated themselves with groups like the LP, but no, they've just disappeared.

It's kind of shameful they've just let right wing, white supremacist, Putin loving, anti-democracy a-holes take over their party without even a whimper.

[Emile]

7. They are still there, pulling the strings on their puppets.

[canetoad]

8. You don't have

A dog and bark yourself.

They have plenty of thuggish foot soldiers to carry out their agenda without getting their own hands dirty.

[Irish_Dem]

11. They are still here, voting GOP for tax cuts and special treatment for corporations.

They just don't want to get in the mud with the rednecks.

[Amishman]

12. They all moved to The Villages

joking, but also kind of not joking

[kimbutgar]

13. I knew those real leather loafer shoes with tassels being these snobby but tolerable republicans

Who were members of the country club. Now when you talk with them they don’t want to talk politics. I worked years ago with guys like that and see them on FB sometimes. They don’t want to talk politics.

[Grasswire2]

14. those are the ones I'm thinking about.

Snobby and exclusive, back then.

What do they talk about now when they get together?

Hobbies, I guess. Certainly have nothing much in common with MAGA base.

[Grasswire2]

15. Here's something interesting from 1973 Art Buchwald column.

This is how Republicans explained away Nixon, then. How would it compare to questions asked of Republicans today, about Trump?

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=e2COfogzYInJDNbThSXyNw

[GoldandSilver]

16. Educated.upper class Repugs?

They sit in their corners, applaud when prompted and lick the crumbs from tfg’s floor with a smile. Nary a word of criticism or they might get beheaded.

[Pobeka]

17. They are silently funding propoganda the basket of deplorables

As long as it keeps them from getting taxed.

There are a few who may even choose not to participate in the GOP, but given the amount of media pushing GOP insanity, most of those elites must be just fine with it.

To hell with society and our offspring.

[Hekate]

18. I think they made a deal with the Devil. GHW Bush, New England patrician WASP, supported Planned...

…Parenthood as a charitable cause the way a lot of them did. Right up until he threw PP under the bus when he got a brimstone whiff of the culture wars. Then his son Dubya, who had seen the light of the Talibaptists in Texas, ran the bus back and forth over PP for good measure.

Mitt Romney may be the last of the good breed, and he’s a Mormon, not a WASP.

[Grasswire2]

19. are they hiding under the covers these days?

Is there any data showing who they are voting for? Supporting with $$$?

[Hekate]

20. I don't really know. I just think a passel of them decided they'd rather have power than a soul...

Which is why I say I think a lot of them made a deal with the Devil. It’s grotesque.

[Grasswire2]

21. well, for most of them it boils down to maintaining white rule while becoming multicultural society.

Racist at core.

And everything that they said was sacred is not, to them.
Not flag, not separation of powers, not rule of law, not equal justice, not even the spilled blood of our GIs. That was all a lie.

[betsuni]

22. The modern Republican Party is terribly vulgar and one doesn't want to be associated with it.