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Originally Posted by TCLGirls
Except the GOP establishment has been spitting in the faces of the GOp base for DECADES. And the GOP base happily eats it up:
"It is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces. It hasn?t. The white middle class may like the idea of Trump as a giant pulsing humanoid middle finger held up in the face of the Cathedral, they may sing hymns to Trump the destroyer and whisper darkly about ?globalists? and ? odious, stupid term ? ?the Establishment,? but nobody did this to them. They failed themselves.
If you spend time in hardscrabble, white upstate New York, or eastern Kentucky, or my own native West Texas, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy ? which is to say, the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dog ? you will come to an awful realization. It wasn?t Beijing. It wasn?t even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasn?t immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasn?t any of that.
Nothing happened to them. There wasn?t some awful disaster. There wasn?t a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation. Even the economic changes of the past few decades do very little to explain the dysfunction and negligence ? and the incomprehensible malice ? of poor white America. So the gypsum business in Garbutt ain?t what it used to be. There is more to life in the 21st century than wallboard and cheap sentimentality about how the Man closed the factories down.
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your ******ned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump?s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn?t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul."
National Review Doubles Down: 'Important to Say' White Working Class Communities 'Deserve to Die' - Breitbart
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I have said for a long time that the brilliance of the GOP is that they can repackage the same bullshit year and year and get people to vote for it. Of course the dems do this as well. What they haven't done is spit in the face of the voters when it comes to elections. Sure, they stack the deck with candidates they approve of (for the most part) so it doesn't really matter who wins, but the person that wins the election gets the job. Here the GOP is saying, "Even if you vote for this person to win, we might take that away from you and put in whoever we want." That would be very bad for the GOP.
I think they are smart enough to know if Trump gets enough delegates to win the nomination they have to let him have it and they just have to hope if he beats Hillary that he will be a decent president. If nobody gets the magic number of delegates it will still be hard for the party to justify selecting anyone that isn't 1st or 2nd in the delegate count.