08-07-2020, 08:13 AM
(08-06-2020, 05:11 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: This actually supports my claim that Trumpism is centered around Trump. Once he is gone I expect a return to the standard GOP template.
I don't know how much I agree. Many of the problems we are currently facing, like the destruction of norms and the degradation of our democracy, have been going on for decades. Trump just turned up the gas a bit. Even the appeal to white nationalists has to be seen within the context of the Southern Strategy and other policies that worked to play up racial animus to provide a foil for working class white people and keep them distracted from the real cause of their issues.
So without Trump, how will the party shift? Will it return to the same things that led to the rise of Trump, or will it go a bit further back?
And don't mistake what I'm saying as me being one-sided about this. I blame the Democratic party for a lot, as well. Their abandoning of the principles of folks like FDR really helped facilitate this problem, as well.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
