This may be the best assessment of the evolution of the GOP, the Trump phenomenon, and the crossroads we are at as a nation, I have read:
Will Trump voters choose to destroy American Democracy?
If you are a MAGA/Trump supporter, or an I'm going to vote Republican no matter what person ("Trump is the lesser of two evils"), I have to ask when you read this:
1) Do you see yourself in the descriptions and agree with the overall assessment, but you will continue to vote Republican habitually or passively.
2) Know that this is basically correct, but want to pretend it isn't.
3) Actually believe this is inaccurate. I don't mean in details, but in its grand assessment and the consequences we face in this election. That a Trump victory would actually be the end of the Founder's experiment and ring in a new era of America (unlike the Trump's projection and fear mongering that a Biden win somehow changes America).
4) Actively agree with the MAGA white nationalism movement and want to subvert the rights and foundational principles of the Constitution.
5) Agree with this article and that is why you will NOT support the GOP until they reject the MAGA elements and return to authentic American values?
I, of course, hope that a great number of Republicans value the country over their loyalty to party and have the strength to admit what is happening and be accountable. To take a stand against the GOP until it rights itself (pun intended) before returning to being a Republican.
The entire article is a great overview, but the ending paragraphs are particularly worthwhile. For example:
"Most White Republicans, after all, do not have the "legacy European" lineage that Tucker Carlson praises. They do not have ancestors who stepped off the Mayflower or fought in the revolution. The ancestors of the great majority of "White" Americans today were not considered "White" when they first set foot on American shores. Irish Americans may no longer remember that the Thomas Nast cartoons of the late 19th century depicted the Irish as apelike creatures. Many Italian Americans may not recall that a riot made up of "New Orleans' finest" lynched and murdered 11 Sicilian immigrants and were never charged.
Many Catholics seem to have forgotten that they were once the most despised group in America, such that one of the Founders, John Jay, wanted them excluded from citizenship altogether. Most White Americans were at one time members of despised immigrant groups. They were the victims of the very anti-liberalism they are now voting back into power. They climbed to equality using liberalism as their ladder, and now that they have reached their destination they would pull away the ladder and abandon liberalism. Having obtained their equality using the laws and institutions of liberalism, their passion for liberalism has faded."
Will Trump voters choose to destroy American Democracy?
If you are a MAGA/Trump supporter, or an I'm going to vote Republican no matter what person ("Trump is the lesser of two evils"), I have to ask when you read this:
1) Do you see yourself in the descriptions and agree with the overall assessment, but you will continue to vote Republican habitually or passively.
2) Know that this is basically correct, but want to pretend it isn't.
3) Actually believe this is inaccurate. I don't mean in details, but in its grand assessment and the consequences we face in this election. That a Trump victory would actually be the end of the Founder's experiment and ring in a new era of America (unlike the Trump's projection and fear mongering that a Biden win somehow changes America).
4) Actively agree with the MAGA white nationalism movement and want to subvert the rights and foundational principles of the Constitution.
5) Agree with this article and that is why you will NOT support the GOP until they reject the MAGA elements and return to authentic American values?
I, of course, hope that a great number of Republicans value the country over their loyalty to party and have the strength to admit what is happening and be accountable. To take a stand against the GOP until it rights itself (pun intended) before returning to being a Republican.
The entire article is a great overview, but the ending paragraphs are particularly worthwhile. For example:
"Most White Republicans, after all, do not have the "legacy European" lineage that Tucker Carlson praises. They do not have ancestors who stepped off the Mayflower or fought in the revolution. The ancestors of the great majority of "White" Americans today were not considered "White" when they first set foot on American shores. Irish Americans may no longer remember that the Thomas Nast cartoons of the late 19th century depicted the Irish as apelike creatures. Many Italian Americans may not recall that a riot made up of "New Orleans' finest" lynched and murdered 11 Sicilian immigrants and were never charged.
Many Catholics seem to have forgotten that they were once the most despised group in America, such that one of the Founders, John Jay, wanted them excluded from citizenship altogether. Most White Americans were at one time members of despised immigrant groups. They were the victims of the very anti-liberalism they are now voting back into power. They climbed to equality using liberalism as their ladder, and now that they have reached their destination they would pull away the ladder and abandon liberalism. Having obtained their equality using the laws and institutions of liberalism, their passion for liberalism has faded."
