They didn’t intend for that contingent to actually drive, but they paved the path and all :shocked Pikachu: when he grabbed the wheel.
Yeah, more or less. I don’t think the Republican elites ever disagreed with the racist resentment politics they’d been peddling, but they intended them to be a means to enact tax breaks for the wealthy and wage wars. They never expected the base to elect someone who made racism the focus.
I still hold that he gets absolutely nowhere without Putin’s help.
Not sure I agree. Russian interference certainly helped, but the economic conditions in the country are ripe for fascism. He might have won without foriegn interference, and if he didn’t, we might be facing a more popular, more competent fascist right now.
Yeah, more or less. I don’t think the Republican elites ever disagreed with the racist resentment politics they’d been peddling, but they intended them to be a means to enact tax breaks for the wealthy and wage wars. They never expected the base to elect someone who made racism the focus.
Not sure I agree. Russian interference certainly helped, but the economic conditions in the country are ripe for fascism. He might have won without foriegn interference, and if he didn’t, we might be facing a more popular, more competent fascist right now.