Rick Wilson is wrong. The GOP can never cleanse itself of Trumpism, even if he's gone. Here's why:

[DetlefK]

refering to this article:
https://www.salon.com/tv/e/579060/c/3947

“We don’t really use the word ‘purge’ much in American political parlance,” said the famously blunt Wilson, “but if the Republican party wants to survive after Trump, they’re going to have to purge out the racist a**holes like, you know, Richard Spencer and David Duke, and all of these other guys, anybody who runs for office on the Nazi ticket or the Klan or whatever.” “We have to get off this conspiracy crack that the party’s been on for several years now,” he added.

And exactly that won't work. Because the problem is no longer republican politicians.

The problem is that the GOP has brainwashed its voters into such a rabid fanaticism that those voters regard the nihilists and the extremists as the new normal. They are what republican voters consider normal.

Republicans will never again vote for moderate Republicans like McCain or Bush or Reagan. Because they wouldn't accept such a politician as republican.



From Newt Gingrich's self-righteous conservative pseudo-intellectualism to Karl Rove's constant bombardment with anti-democratic propaganda to Sarah Palin and the Tea Party masquerading their desire for authoritarianism as anti-establishment, it's one big trajectory leading to Trumpism.

Nihilist, naked lust for power.

The power to fulfill your darkest desires, free of consequences.



Even if the GOP tried to rid itself of Trumpism once Trump is gone, the republican voters wouldn't allow it. They would keep voting for populist authoritarians pointing fingers at scapegoats. Because republican voters have been brainwashed into thinking, that is what a Republican is supposed to be like.

[thegoose]

1. Pandora's box has been opened

Nixon was the one who started prying at the lid. Dump is just the latest, most obvious Repuke-lican. They've all revealed themselves to be hateful, lying scum who lust for money and power and the hell with everyone else.