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The impeached president trump has easily convinced the knuckle-dragging RWNJs that illegally intimidating Biden supporters, especially African-American Biden supporters, to see him reelected is a righteous cause.
Unfortunately, the GOP spent the last five decades teaching these dimwits their racism, bigotry, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, coupled with their extremely limited education and their hatred for everyone non-white and non-Christian, telling them these character flaws are instead, virtues when found in conservatives.
The impeached president trump came to the game late. The Republicans have been stoking the fires of poor whites’ racial hatred ever since the Democrats decided to abandon the Ku Klux Klan and other lesser-known white supremacist groups in the 1960s. Certain leaders of the Democratic Party understood the old racism of the former Confederacy could no longer be the future of the United States.
But, having been a part of this philosophy of division during his entire political career, Richard Nixon and a few other old guard Republicans saw the Democrats’ abandoned, poorly educated, but extremely bigoted voting group as a constituency ready to be exploited. But how to do it was unknown.
In 1966, an administrative assistant to Congressman Paul Fino, the Bronx Republican leader, demonstrated how to do it. Fino’s administrative assistant was 25‐year‐old Kevin Phillips, a self‐taught ethnologist who had grown up in the Bronx. His previous fourteen years observing his multi-cultural borough had convinced him that all the talk about America being melting‐pot was bullsh!t. Most voters, he had found, still voted on the basis of ethnic or cultural enmities that could be graphed, predicted, and exploited.
Between 1965 and 1968, Phillips proved locally and nationally the party that can cohesively hold together the largest number of ethnic prejudices would dominate. His successes earned him a place on Nixon’s campaign staff, and made him the most controversial political analyst of the right. But Nixon and the Republican Party now had their Southern Strategy, which soon spread nationwide recruiting every hate-filled conservative and centrist.
Phillips earned his bad‐guy image by the aggression he brings to his researches and a kind of grim satisfaction he takes in the incorrigible meanness of the American voter. Also, for his undisguised scorn for “sentimentalists” who would much rather not accept his deeply disturbing findings.
Kevin Phillips and his research proves the RWNJs’ endless denial of their racism, bigotry, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, coupled with their extremely limited education and their hatred for everyone non-white and non-Christian is an extension of all their other denial of facts and reality. They are Republicans due to ethnic and religious hatred not some glorious quest for states’ rights, individual rights, equality, or defense of the Constitution.
The impeached president trump tapped into this staggering RWNJ ignorance and rode it into the White House in 2016. Sadly, in 2020 this massive RWNJ ignorance has been made extremely violent by the impeached president trump's repetitive, hate-filled reinforcement, which constantly validates the RWNJs' full range of animus towards everyone and everything, including themselves and their lives of being miserable failures.
The GOP's brainwashing for those decades made these RWNJs believe they are being victimized at every turn, and by everyone except, the Republican Party and the privileged upper class that owns the GOP's service. For this privileged class, the RWNJs, collectively, have been an excellent political tool to keep upper class wealth growing, and the RWNJs’, and everyone else’s incomes stagnant.
The impeached president trump took those decades of the Republican Party’s brainwashing of the RWNJs to levels Party leaders never dreamed possible.
The growing violence of the RWNJs across nation is testimony to the success of Republican strategists, beginning with Kevin Phillips for their decades of work, and to the impeached president trump's talent as a grifter.
The nation as a whole is rapidly settling into third world status, something the RWNJs are to busy hating everything to notice. But, the ruling billionaire class has never been better.
Republican politicians of the 1960s exploited white voters’ fears and prejudices – and Trump is stoking the fire for November
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