Make the sun rise: the GOP struggle in the wee hours before dawn

[JakeStarkey]

This campaign season' clock tower's bells have tolled long past midnight, and the GOP stumbles forward in the darkness.

The common cause of the GOP no longer bonds together mainstream moderates, neo-cons, evangelicals, and corporatists. Somewhat similarly to the Democrats in 1968, the GOP's various factions have turned inward on each's perceived opponents, and metaphorically the campaign halls fill with blood.

The GOP has become a place where in the darkness racists and ethnocentrists and nativists skitter along spreading their hatred of anyone unlike themselves.

The (f)right wing of the GOP refuses to reach out honestly to women, minorities, religionists other than evangelicals, LGBT, and non-believers. The fright lords wish again for a male-centric, white-dominated political system that rewards their needs and withholds fulfilling the needs of others.

Trump has demonstrated an inability to dominate the entire party. Why? Simply, the morally sane and great center of American decency, best represented by the older Genxrs and the Baby Boomers, has never tolerated any semblance of politics that reeks of the fallen regimes from seventy years ago. Trump and his allies exude both.

The generations will join together to banish Trump and his minions.

The millennials, who are not overtly political, will rise up with a fury to strike down the principles of the GOP (f)right wing. They in their entirety reject sexism, racism, ageism, ethnocentrism. Those 'isms make no sense to them. Because they are temporally and emotionally divorced from the struggles of the sixties and seventies, they accept as normal the social and moral victories that were its results. To them it is normal, moral, and proper. We have seen with the Bern campaign and elsewhere that they possess the willingness to go home and vote instead of going on spring break.

A death knell for the GOP this is not. But it does recognize that the GOP body is sick and will have to purge itself of its illness. The Democratic Party will do the same, but the imperative for it has not yet built to critical mass. Let's hope the purging of center left does not take more than a single presidential cycle rather than the four required by the GOP.

The GOP will lose the fall elections in stunning fashion, the White House and the Senate will go blue, and that will swing the Supreme Court to a liberal majority for the first time in forty years. The moral gains of the last fifty years will be cemented and will banish the mold that has crept in during the last few years.

How long will the rebuilding of the Republican Party take?

Who will make the sun rise once again for the Grand Old Party?

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

The clock tower's bells have tolled long past midnight, and the GOP stumbles forward in the darkness.

The common cause of the GOP no longer bonds together mainstream moderates, neo-cons, evangelicals, and corporatists. Somewhat similarly to the Democrats in 1968, the GOP's various factions have turned inward on each's perceived opponents, and metaphorically the campaign halls fill with blood.

The GOP has become a place where in the darkness racists and ethnocentrists and nativists skitter along spreading their hatred of anyone unlike themselves.

The (f)right wing of the GOP refuses to reach out honestly to women, minorities, religionists other than evangelicals, LGBT, and non-believers. The fright lords wish again for a male-centric, white-dominated political system that rewards their needs and withholds fulfilling the needs of others.

Trump has demonstrated an inability to dominate the entire party. Why? Simply, the morally sane and great center of American decency, best represented by the older Genxrs and the Baby Boomers, has never tolerated any semblance of politics that reeks of the fallen regimes from seventy years ago. Trump and his allies exude both.

The generations will join together to banish Trump and his minions.

The millennials, who are not overtly political, will rise up with a fury to strike down the principles of the GOP (f)right wing. They in their entirety reject sexism, racism, ageism, ethnocentrism. Those 'isms make no sense to them. Because they are temporally and emotionally divorced from the struggles of the sixties and seventies, they accept as normal the social and moral victories that were its results. To them it is normal, moral, and proper. We have seen with the Bern campaign and elsewhere that they possess the willingness to go home and vote instead of going on spring break.

A death knell for the GOP this is not. But it does recognize that the GOP body is sick and will have to purge itself of its illness. The Democratic Party will do the same, but the imperative for it has not yet built to critical mass. Let's hope the purging of center left does not take more than a single presidential cycle rather than the four required by the GOP.

The GOP will lose the fall elections in stunning fashion, the White House and the Senate will go blue, and that will swing the Supreme Court to a liberal majority for the first time in forty years. The moral gains of the last fifty years will be cemented and will banish the mold that has crept in during the last few years.

How long will the rebuilding of the Republican Party take?

Who will make the sun rise once again for the Grand Old Party?

Jake,

In 2006 and 2008 I remember the left writing about how the GOP was a dead political party, and in 2010, 2012, and 2014 the GOP kept on winning ( well except the White House ) and now they look like they will fall again, but they will not die or be down long because the American voter is a fickle bitch...

What will bring the GOP back together?

Maybe remembering that sometimes you have to settle at getting 75% of what you want and not everything you want. Also maybe they need to remember Reagan united the GOP during a dark era of the party and did not divide it like Trump is doing.

I remember how some called President Obama the Manchurian Candidate, but Donald Trump is more that type of Candidate.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Conservatives don't recognize what is about to happen. They live in perpetual cognitive dissonance anyway so this earthquake will not register to them until months later when they are surviving the aftershocks.

Good point about the millenials, they are removed from the strife, racism, misogyny, and the rest of the 60s and 70s and now they just see acceptance of these differences as normal.

And what a fitting tribute to the people that have fought those fights for the last 60 years. There is no better result than a generation who wonder what the fighting was about.

 

[Agit8r]

Conservatives don't recognize what is about to happen. They live in perpetual cognitive dissonance.

Absolutely. case in point, this narrow faction who call themselves the "silent majority" but who make up around 1/4 of the electorate. Pure senseless delusion.