We’re Witnessing History: The Extreme Right Just Seized Control of the GOP

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29. I am not sure that is a totally accurate description.

although, I agree with the end result. Seizing control implies that the targeted organization existed and would continue to exist in its same form and function but for the hostile take-over. I don't think that applies to the GOP today. Trump did not seize control, so much as exploit the growing ruptures, cracks, and pre-existing disarray.

Ever since the rise of the TeaAssholes, the GOP began to misfire as a relevant, functioning, rational party of leadership or opposition, as the case may be at any particular time. Once a minority group within the GOP began holding the entire country hostage, I don't believe that the GOP could be considered a working national party.

Simply saying "NO!" Is not a rational policy position, unless you are a spoiled 3 year old brat. (Cue mental image of Trump)

The party targeted moderates, socially liberal, and economically savvy GOPers, and replaced them with Dement-ed types. Even now, I can easily name 10 senators without trying hard, who do not have the nation's best interest at heart. They obstruct, they threaten, they lie. But they never compromise.

The state of the GOP as of 2014, 2015, was like a train approaching a incredibly deep gorge, where global climate change had washed out the bridge, without an engineer, without functioning brakes, increasing speed as it barreled downhill. That is what Trump was savvy enough to recognize and diagnose. He saw a great opportunity to take apart any opposition, so he went forward.

He picked them off, one by one, starting with the strongest opponent, and after demolishing one, he'd move on to the next one. He didn't have to go after those who the general public believed belonged in a Sanitorium, in fact, by ignoring them, he effectively castrated them.

One by one, the GOP media darlings were trashed, folded, mutilated, spindled, torn, bent, ripped apart, sliced, diced, and made into mincemeat. And because Trump has no standards except for his love of self, they were repeatedly taken off-guard and surprised that they could not combat his attacks, much less find an effective defense. Bush, Rubio, Christie, Cruz, - all the ones that the GOP bRain tRusts held in high regard and had hoped would/could/should beat Hillary. Each one thoroughly and completely shattered, to such a great extent that they may not survive in their current offices when reelection comes around. In Bush's case, it is fair to say his career as a politician is deader than a sun dried haddock hanging on some Scottish ocean front.

The party was trying and succeeding to lose the Yute, people of color, women, and the better educated long before the Era of Trumpenstien. He simply took great advantage of their internal problems, and wiped their asses with battery acid soaked baby wipes. Herr Hair is no dummy, even when he plays one on TV. The fact that he has mental issues is beside the point. One can be both street smart and mentally ill.

I think it would be more accurate that he took a dying party, and put it out of its misery. While putting the rest of us (including the victims of trump - the GOP, independents, even foreigners across this flat earth) into a state of misery from which it will be hard to escape.

I do wholeheartedly agree that something like a Donald Trump was inevitable, given the recent history of the party. But it was always meant to be. For three decades, the GOP was trying to marry social conservatives, economic conservatives, TeaAssholes, and NeoConMen with ultra conservative christianists - There isn't a shotgun big or powerful enough to make it a permanent, thriving, and stable relationship. They had too many serious policy differences. It was bound to implode, explode, shatter, rust to pieces, and/or spontaneously combust. I am actually surprised it took as long as it did. I think the Kochs and other conservative billionaires gave them a lease on life that only delayed the inevitable supernova-like collapse.