Trump proves liberals have been right all along about Republicans being horrible people

... because liberals understand conservatives better than conservatives understand themselves

Even if Trump loses, he has exposed a Republican Party many in the GOP will wish had stayed hidden. The core truth he has laid bare is that Republican voters are powered by a resentful nationalism more than a principled conservatism. "Republican politics boils down to ethno-nationalistic passions ungoverned by reason," writes Jonathan Chait. "Once a figure has been accepted as a friendly member of their tribe, there is no level of absurdity to which he can stoop that would discredit him."

- http://www.vox.com/2016/5/4/11586360/donald-trump-conservatism

In an election season dominated by racist and xenophobic language on the right, Donald Trump distinguishes himself even among his more outspoken Republican challengers. And according to a New York Times analysis of voters, so do his supporters, a majority of whom carry deeply intolerant attitudes toward gay people, Muslims, immigrants, and African Americans.

In fact, the report found 20 percent of Trump's base disagree with the freeing of slaves after the Civil War, and a staggering 70 percent would still like to see the Confederate flag flying above official grounds in their states.

One-third of Trump's primary supporters in South Carolina favored "barring gays and lesbians from entering the country." According to the Times, this is more than twice the support this proposal received by Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio backers.

Another third of his supporters think Japanese internment was an appropriate measure.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/these-numbers-driving-donald-trump-victory-are-absolutely-insane

For years Republicans have denied that their party is driven by bigotry and racism. Well, now they have a candidate who not only launched his campaign by calling most Mexican immigrants “rapists and criminals,” he’s now being openly embraced by white supremacists. Furthermore, as most of you probably heard, when he was given an easy opportunity to disavow well-known white supremacist David Duke and the KKK – Trump played dumb. And why did he play dumb? Well, probably because he was heading into Super Tuesday where many of the states up for grabs were in the South where racism, white supremacy and the KKK are most common. So, history will show that a leading Republican candidate – in 2016 – refused to instantly condemn a white supremacist and the KKK, then went on to dominate on Super Tuesday and likely become the party’s nominee for president.

- http://www.forwardprogressives.com/5-ways-donald-trump-proves-progressives-have-been-right-about-republicans-all-along/

Here’s Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist for the Wall Street Journal:

“Liberals may have been fond of claiming that Republicans were all closet bigots and that tax cuts were a form of racial prejudice, but the accusation rang hollow because the evidence for it was so tendentious. Not anymore. The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism…It would be terrible to think that the left was right about the right all these years.”

Terrible indeed, but no less true. Here’s a similar Tweet by Max Boot, a neoconservative hawk and prominent Republican intellectual: “I’m a lifelong Republican but Trump surge proves that every bad Democrats have ever said about GOP is basically true.” Welcome to the club, Max. Happy to have you.

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/17/the_rights_shocking_admission_stunned_by_trumps_dominance_some_gop_pundits_concede_that_dems_have_been_right_about_republicans_all_along/

When asked by the Guardian to describe the impact on the Republican party of Trump’s now-inevitable nomination, Rick Wilson, a prominent conservative strategist who worked on the presidential campaigns of both George Bushes, replied: “What Republican party? The party I grew up in is done, it’s over. As long as Donald Trump is the definition of our brand, it’s dead.”

Charlie Sykes, a popular conservative radio host in Milwaukee, said: “Donald Trump represents the antithesis of everything I have fought for in the last 30 years. He is a neo-fascist buffoon.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/04/donald-trump-republican-nomination-how-we-got-here

To really shake things up—to raise new questions and provoke new thinking about conservative politics—the Republican Party would have to do something drastic like rescind the loyalty pledge as it pertains to Trump. Unless and until that happens, Trump is likely to continue shoring up support on the basis of increasingly grotesque views, and leave those of us who’ve been clear-eyed about it all along with nothing much to add.

https://newrepublic.com/article/125353/trump-proves-liberals-right-along

There are very few true "fiscal conservatives" or "constitutional conservatives" in America. Every political issue has been transformed into a social issue. Tax cuts, GOP strategist Lee Atwater admitted 35 years ago, were always code for policies that would hurt ethnic minorities. "Family values" were always code for anti-gay policies. "States rights" was always code for getting the federal government out of the business of protecting the civil rights of minority groups.

It's pretty funny to see how this is finally dawning on the supposed leading lights of the American conservative movement.

There are a lot of things that Republicans and Conservatives have to lie about.  This has been a watershed election season because so many of them have been exposed.

Republicans and conservatives are flim-flamers...they perform magic tricks for the naive and ignorant.  That is, they renege on the implied promise to work for the people, and instead work for special interests.

Trump has exposed the nationalism and racism in the ranks of conservatives.  But Sanders has prompted discussion on the inverse totalitarianism that the wealthy are building.  All of this seems to be the inevitable, and natural deterioration of capitalism.  It is, economists have proven, an unstable system. Trumps nationalism arises out of economic protective instincts, while what Sanders is speaking to is the creeping economic take-over of...what else?  The world.

ethno-nationalistic passions ungoverned by reason = hill shepherd

@quill
I Agree with you last paragraph.

veya_victaous wrote:
ethno-nationalistic passions ungoverned by reason = hill shepherd

White trash southern cousin neo-nazi hill shepherds.

A.k.a.   KKK goons, Daughters of the Mayflower, 'Concealed Carry' gun nuts, Westbro Baptists, 'Open Carry' gun nuts, and other assorted racist and nationalist 'clubs' and associations..