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‘They didn’t stand up to Trump’: how the Republican party descended into disarray
(www.theguardian.com)
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Titles like this make it seem like Trump is the problem but he’s not, he’s a symptom. No fully functioning, rational party would have someone like Trump as a serious contender for POTUS.
The GOP has been on this path for decade's now going back at least as far as Nixon. We’re honestly lucky they picked someone as lazy and dimwitted as Trump; if they’d picked someone just as morally bankrupt and corrupt but with actual intelligence and cunning we’d already be living in a dictatorship.
We might still end up there but the sheer stupidity of the GOP and its leadership is giving us a second chance to reclaim our country before it’s too late. Vote in every election you’re eligible for from your state on down to you local county; they all count!
It's my strong opinion that the pardon of Nixon is directly responsible for the current state of partisan politics in the US.
If he had been held accountable then, we wouldn't be dealing with half of our politicians arguing that the president is above the law.
Could we say it's back even further? Was there any comeuppance after the Civil War?
Kinda, but with the later Southern Strategy, and the two parties kinda switching sides, that gets a bit muddy to follow a direct causal chain.