Frank Rich wrote recently that Donald Trump isn't taking over the Republican party. Instead, Trump is the Republican party. Trump understands the voters, and the Republican Establishment does not.
All that the Republicans have going for them now is bigotry. Their establishment foreign policy has failed, and their social and financial policies are ludicrous. The Republican establishment is morally and practically bankrupt. The only issues they have left are support for racism, religious conflict, male domination, war and greed. Trump is the Republican choice.
You know that the major parties are collections of many different groups of people. Hillary and Bernie represent quite different wings of the Democratic party. Trump represents a large chunk of the most boneheaded Republican voters (few of them conservatives) while Paul Ryan represents Wall Street (little of which is conservative). Not even God knows what the Republicans believe "conservative" means--better ask the confused David Brooks and the rattled George Will.
For thirty years the Trump faction of the Republican party (which tends to be racist, authoritarian, empty headed, limping, women hating, gay baiting and as emotionally deranged as a tomcat searching for carnal pleasure) has lived on meager scraps thrown from the Wall Street table. Now the Trumpers want the table food, not the scraps. Their hunger grows fiercer day by day.
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