Scapegoats

At some point the GOP discovered that it had nothing to offer ordinary voters. To hide that fact, it turned to scapegoating minority groups. 

Karl Rove later saw that if the GOP  supported the demands of every hate group, large and small, they would constitute something fairly close to a majority.  But not quite.

To gain a majority, Rove's plan has devolved into attempts to make the scapegoats non-voters.  

Now frantic, the GOP is scapegoating transgender children. There are few of them nationally, and they are not armed. Safe to scapegoat. But maybe not.