Of course it is. Trump is the republican party, so anyone who opposes trump can't be part of the republican party.
Trump is a product of the Republican party hatefest on the Democrats..
The Republican Party after the Bush debacle presidency went full court press on demonising the Democrats and Obama... They did it not for the betterment of America but to keep themselves relevant... They were staring down the barrel of a wave from Obama, another charismatic Democrat Presidency and Hillary was going to run on his coat tails.
So they went dark, very dark... They went negative. Using there media bubble which they expanded and created a cult like atmosphere... They accused Democrats of crimes like murder and pedophilia, they created a tribe and even talking to the other side was disloyal... Obama was the enemy but Hillary (the most popular politician in the US in 2013) was the most evil... They couldn't spread enough false stories about Hillary... They had her as the stupidest woman in America at the same time running the most complex evil plot in history, it was utter bullshit but to say it would be disloyal to the tribe and thus ridicule or worse excommunication.
Then came along Donald Trump. This guy has no real political ideology, but he could see this cult like behaviour. He just said that the Republican party was soft and he was even more loyal to the Tribe and he hate the Democrats even more... The brainwashing tribe mentality took over... Trump just was even more crude, more obnoxious and they tribe followed. Some Republicans discovered the monster they have created but by that time the tribe mentality was too far gone. Some resisted and got excommunicated, some came back into the fold and were accepted at a lower stature. The monster is in charge and the tribe culture which mainly based on hating Democrats is now the philosophy of the Republican base, they don't really have a policy base themselves, just mainly, if democrats are doing that we are doing the opposite.
So where do we go from here? The good news about Trump is that he was incompetent.. He was a **** up really... The people he hired were z listers and micromanaged because the cult leader has to look in charge... The main damage that was done was with people like Stephen Millar and Bethsy DeVos. Yes a million people died in COVID through incompetence and that is very hurtful but he could have been worse (I know that is hard to take and is very much debatable).
So what is the real scare? A competent person who has the lack of empathy of Trump, the vindictive streak and knows how to delegate to competent people who are just as bad/brainwashed as he is... These people can just have drunk the Koolaid much like the some people did in Germany in the 1930s... Remember they have dehumanised the other side making them into murders and pedophiles. This is exactly what the NAZIs did... How many times have we seen that liberals, democrats, immigrants should be shot even on this forum?
What needs to happen is a charismatic moderate needs to elected and the media needs to calm down...
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