REPUBLICANS WERE THE PARTY OF TRUMP BEFORE TRUMP

I find it hard to post.   The Trump presidency is such a daily cluster-fuck that my poor slow cooker recipes, DYI hints, apocalyptic climate predictions and general Maine lore shade unimportant by comparison to what is happening to our democracy.    So lately I have avoided the computer. 

People seem shocked by the reaction of the Republican Party to the blatant racism, misogamy and maleficence of office of the Presidency that is the part and parcel of the Trump White House.

In 1948 southern racist Democrats began fleeing the Democratic Party when desegregation became part of the Democratic platform.   Within a few years these southern racist democrats became a major faction in Republican Party.   The Republican party also opened their arms to the southern fundamentalist Christians.   Over the years the Republican hierarchy willingly accepted any fringe group that they felt they could manipulate to vote Republican; placating them by giving lip service to social policies that would cement that base, while enacting actual policies that served the rich and powerful. 

As a result, the base of the republican became dumbed down and easily manipulated.  

Then the Republican party made the mistake of encouraging and energizing the Tea Party; and low intelligent, uninformed masses dawned tri-corner hats, waved Don’t Tread on Me flags and, to the surprise of the Party elites, systematically took over the asylum. 

If you are a KKK member - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you are a white supremacist - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; If you are a fundamentalist Christian that denies evolution and believes the earth is six thousand years old - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you are a moronic science denier - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you are a militia nutcase advocation the overthrow of the federal government - there is a place for you in the Republican Party, If you are an ammosexual wearing you assault rifle into McDonald’s - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you feel that women aren’t capable of making decisions about their own bodies - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; and if you are a homophobe…..

This is the Republican Party that finally found their savior in Donald Trump. 

This is not the Party of Donald Trump, but the Republican party with a leader that at last reflects the values of the party he leads. 

the Ol'Buzzard

TRUMP IS AHEAD IN THE POLES!

Everyone, both Republican and Democratic pundits, are wondering how Donald Trump is carrying 27% of the Republican Party in the poles.

  

I don’t see what the mystery is.   This is the 27% of the Republican Party base that supported Michele Bachman and Herman Cain in the 2012 election – the same people that elected Louie Gohmert and other Congressional wingnuts.   These are the same people that marched with the tri-cornered hats with tea bags hanging from their clothes; these are the same 27% that live on Fox and Friends.

To me it is no mystery.  These people have always been here but disregarded as nut cases until organized by the Republican Party and given a platform to scream from in the 2008 election when it seemed that a black man was going to be elected President.   

This group is poorly educated, not bright and easily manipulated.  For years the leaders and shapers of the Republican Party gave this group lip service – they fed them bullshit and told them it was cake.   They could count on them showing up at the poles as long as they gave them a piece of red meat to chew on. 

And then in 2008 they showcased them – used them to create dissension at Democratic events and to appeal to racist, conspiracy theorist and religious zealots.     

Now, like the Frankenstein monster the Party can’t control them. 

The Republican mainstream keep reminding us that regardless of his appeal, Trump won’t be their nominee and they are probably right; because at some point there will be a concerted effort to bring him down.   In the meantime they are biding their time to see if he will implode on his own.  

Even if Trump, or anyone else, would run as a third party he would have no chance, because it is not the popular vote that elects the President, but the Electoral College; and the members of the Electoral College are appointed by the two major parties.

The game is fixed.

And let’s not forget that it is fourteen fucking months left before we have a vote.   It is like a fifteen mile marathon and everyone excited about who is ahead at mile one. 

On to a more important subject: I haven’t cleaned the cats litter box this morning and they don’t like it when their box is dirty.

the Ol’Buzzard