I think I understand Trump’s power over the Republican Party.
Trump accomplished one thing as President. He “legitimized” racism and white supremacy as an “acceptable” political position. This had two results -
1. In the past extreme racists and white supremacists either did not vote, because neither Republicans nor Democrats spoke to them or their hatred, or they voted for true fringe party candidates. They have now been empowered and organized into an actual voting bloc loyal to Trump – his core “base” of ignorant racists - and today’s Republican Party truly courts and panders to them, while abandoning intelligent “traditional” Republicans.
2. Previously “closeted” racists and white supremacists, who in the past hid their beliefs because they had correctly been considered wrong and unacceptable by society and politics, can now “come out” and joined the new Trump-loyal ignorant racist voting bloc.
Add to this the repressive “Religious Right” contingent of the Republican Party, who are also basically racist and have embraced Trump, and the percentage of “loyal” Republicans who have and always will vote Republican regardless of the candidate or issues, and you have a large number of American voters – certainly enough to control the selection of Republican Party candidates and policy.
And, of course, I still seriously and sincerely believe Trump has blackmail information on the sexual “eccentricities” of Republican elected officials and leaders that he got from Jeffrey Epstein.
This is why we MUST vote against EVERY Republican candidate in EVERY election at EVERY level in November – and continue to do so until the Republican Party officially denounces and disavows Trump, his lies, his ignorant racist followers, and the repressive agenda of the “Religious Right”.
If Republicans gain control of Congress and state legislatures next month it will be the beginning of the end of America as we know it.
TAFN
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