http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/opinion/republican-elites-reign-of-disdain.html?_r=0
Repubs and their Tandian "blame the victims" mentality may have stopped working on their devout followers
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Good article, especially where it points out this is unique to America in the developed world. The Republican 'elites', and that only describes their tenuous position in that political heirarchy, have used the various social wedge issues to control and motivate average Americans in the Republican party to vote against their own best interests. Each election promising this base of 'impending action' and 'we're taking our country back'. (sound familiar?)
Yet when their base hands these people power they set about throwing scraps to the voters and instead line the pockets of the rich, exclusively. The working class Republican is viewed as cannon fodder, or a peasant. And the middle-America Republican has seen this happen after each election, over and over, and they then see Barack Obama, a black man, elected president, and suddenly the promises of 'a return to yesteryear and Ozzie Harriet' by the Republicans is exposed for what it is. A scam to get votes. Thus the Tea Party. The angries who vote on the basis of social issues. Then the Tea Party was almost immediately taken over by wealthy Republicans! A double knife in the back.
Enter Trump, who says he's going to burn the whole thing to the ground and he's rich and needs no one's help and cannot be bullied by anyone. And they LOVE him for this.
Its been a long time coming, but the Republican party is going to split apart, the working class social issues people will go their own way (about time), and the money changers/worshippers will go theirs. The best part is the money changers can't win elections without the rest.
The GOP elite are Nero watching Rome burn.