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He didn't make them that way. He gave them permission to stop pretending it was a bad look to be that way openly.
Exactly this. The only change has been that they've started to say the quiet part out loud. Their political behavior hasn't especially changed, they're just not bothering to be any shade of discrete anymore.
Like, who writes these titles? Surely anyone aware of Nixon's war on drugs targeting hippies and black people, or Reagan ignoring the AIDS crisis, or any number of other examples would've made it clear that Republicans have been this way for decades, really since the southern strategy was enacted.
Right, that’s what the southern strategy was.
Get all the white voters on your side by stoking racial fears. Trump just realized that the racists are everywhere, and many of them were too dumb to understand the dog whistles enough to be motivated to vote. What some of the rest of us underestimated, was how little the rest of the conservatives would care.
Exactly, and we'll never get any real progress if we can't pin the tail on the real elephant in the room.
Pretty sure it's always been like this since newt.
The first president I was conscious of is Reagan. At least since him, really.
I was thinking the same thing. They've always been that way. He just told them it's ok to say the quiet part outloud.
Look at Nixon quotes regarding war on drugs to target hippies and black people. It's been going on a long time.
Ed- https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional
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Other way around. The conservative wing has always been cruel, xenophobic, exclusionary, and bigoted. Trump is simply the natural result on top.of all that
Trump didnt make the Republican Party Cruel, Xenophobic, Exclusionary, or bigoted.
he just made it acceptable to let the those flag fly publicly.
trump changed nothing about conservatives.
The only thing that changed is that they brazenly say out loud what they were thinking before.
The Party of Malice. Donald Trump has made the Republican Party open about being cruel, xenophobic, exclusionary, and bigoted
FTFY
It was always that way don’t be stupid. Do you really think GWB’s conman party was not hostile to minorities? Back then they were just “one of the good ones.” They had more nuance with their prejudices and race conspiracies.
Now the mask is off, that’s it.
I hate this shit Trump literally did nothing but say the quiet parts out loud.
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Anyone else remember when W tried to popularize the phrase "compassionate conservatism"? It's an implicit admission that conservatism is inherently uncompassionate.
i.e., the exception that proves the rule.
Kudos for using that term correctly.
It's literally the party that is made up in part by the racists who were upset enough about the Civil Rights Act that they switched parties.
It's been this way for a while.
Started with Reagans bitch ass
goldwater and nixon
100%.
There’s a reason Roger Stone has a huge Nixon tattoo…well probably more than one reason, all equally bad.
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Anyone who doubts this should listen to the slowburn season on Nixon. As you do, you'll see such parallels with today that you will be not be able to deny how consistently terrible conservatism has been.
The title is backwards: the cruel, xenophobic, exclusionary and bigoted GOP finds its embodiment in Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump revealed to the Republican Party that they can be openly cruel, xenophobic, exclusionary, and bigoted instead of pretending they're not.
Trump didn't make anything. He scratched a scab which revealed a festering wound. All he did was give conservatives the chance to say, "ew, I'm not gonna let that define me," while those who remained said, "I don't trust medical science, that's just a sign that we're healing," and those who jumped on the bandwagon said, "that's never gonna heal properly, but if we help it get worse then we can do the medically sane thing and cut the limb off." Finally, there are those last two in the scab camp who either say, whoa! That wound is insane, heheh! Let's see how bad it can get," or those who say, "God wants this to rot because I'm hiding some naughty secrets. I hope we all die."
Then there's the rest of us who look at all of them and shout, "WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR A FUCKING SCAB???"
Don't forget the "how much money I can make selling band-aids?" crowd.
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Insert "always has been" meme here.
Don't forget stupid. Trump and his supporters are dumb as fucking rocks.
I think you're taking quite a bit away from the rocks with that statement.
The Republican Party has been exclusively xenophobic, exclusionary, and bigoted for at least sixty years.
Paraphrasing a famous song, he didn't start the fire..
Call out his supporters. The only way to change people's minds is if people think they are the assholes not just Donald.
I never understood the You Have Failed Me trope. If I found myself on the side where failing, or being too successful (being a threat) equals death, I'd switch sides as soon as I can. But I suppose this is just the human nature of fascism, and perhaps baffling to non-fascists.
Nah bruv. He just gave the cunts a chance to shine.
Trump is such a petty man. Small-minded is everything he does and says. Truly embarrassing.
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