The entire point of the original "alt right" and Trump himself was people coming to terms with the fact that the GOP and every RINO in it were useless retards who were happy to be in the Uniparty. That's why they threw out Ted fucking Cruz to face Hillary as a sacrifice to let her win, before the original Trump train demolished them so hard they couldn't keep him out.
This isn't to glaze him, he has fallen in with them too many times, but his very popularity came from a decade+ of everyone but boomers being sick of their bullshit and throwing everything at "its something different" as a final hope.
They were never on our side, and most of them were happy to camouflage with cheap words to pretend they were. But any who isn't posting "far right" screeds regularly at this point should be considered Swampshit to be discarded.
The phrase RINO is part of the problem. It reinforces the thought pattern that the Republican party is an entity that works in the interests of its constituents, rather than the reality that all these Republicans are enacting the exact agenda that the party has always represented.
Exactly. The notion that those are in any way a deviation from what it means to be a Republican is laughable. Those creatures are quintessential Republicans.
People forget that Trump's a boomer. He wants to save the America he remembers under Regan, and the one he grew up in under Eisenhower. In addition to the basic difficulties of politics & compromise generally, he wants to save the system that worked 40 years ago.
That America is dead, and something similar could only be built up by the combined herculean efforts of Zoomers, Alpha, and Alpha+1, working together to build something for Alpha+2. None of the Boomers truly understand how bad the situation is because they are too hard-headed to believe that they failed so completely any chance of the world they remember is now physically impossible for their children, their grand children, or even their great grand-children. Gen X might fund it (and for the most part I expect Millennials to stand in the way and oppose it), but that's how far behind we really are. We're not planting trees under which are children will sit. We're standing on a tarmac arguing about how to dig out the asphalt, find a place to put dirt, and figure out where water is going to come from so that we can begin to think about planting a seed for a tree.
Additionally, the rebellion against the Uniparty has been an ongoing struggle for 70 years that has failed almost every time. The John Birch Society, Goldwater, Buchanan, Reagan Revolutionaries, the TEA Party, etc. Most instances have either failed, or failed to have a follow-up success. Trump is the closes thing we have to real wins against the Neo-Liberal (read: Fabian Socialist) establishment that conquered the government almost 140 years ago.
People forget that Trump's a boomer. He wants to save the America he remembers under Regan,
Not just a boomer but a former Democrat for many years, whose only appears Rightward most of the time because of how dramatically that overton window has shifted.
He has moved Right himself on a lot of things over this last decade, but he is way too old and stubborn to make radical changes to his beliefs out of anything but spite. And its why hoping he was going to "save America" was always hyperbole, he is a live grenade tossed into the room to make something happen. And things have changed, however more or less people think they should.
I don't think it's hyperbole to say he was going to save America... from falling off a cliff. That much is true. But bringing about a true American restoration is a different goal entirely.
Right, but you see it in a lot of doomerism and overly MAGA types, where they treat him as an "all or nothing" savior whose every misstep is a sign that its all failed and everything was a lie.
On a long enough timeline I think we can say he "saved" it by reversing some courses and getting some balls rolling, but in the right now it'll feel like barely anything.
The entire point of the original "alt right" and Trump himself was people coming to terms with the fact that the GOP and every RINO in it were useless retards who were happy to be in the Uniparty. That's why they threw out Ted fucking Cruz to face Hillary as a sacrifice to let her win, before the original Trump train demolished them so hard they couldn't keep him out.
This isn't to glaze him, he has fallen in with them too many times, but his very popularity came from a decade+ of everyone but boomers being sick of their bullshit and throwing everything at "its something different" as a final hope.
They were never on our side, and most of them were happy to camouflage with cheap words to pretend they were. But any who isn't posting "far right" screeds regularly at this point should be considered Swampshit to be discarded.
Phrases you haven't heard in a while: "Drain the swamp!"
In fake gay Zogmerica, swamp drains YOU!
The phrase RINO is part of the problem. It reinforces the thought pattern that the Republican party is an entity that works in the interests of its constituents, rather than the reality that all these Republicans are enacting the exact agenda that the party has always represented.
It’s the party of Ronna McDaniel(Romney nephew) and McCain’s and Crenshaw’s, always has been.
Exactly. The notion that those are in any way a deviation from what it means to be a Republican is laughable. Those creatures are quintessential Republicans.
i've maintained for a while that the real rinos are maga. if you aren't maga, you're a traitor.
People forget that Trump's a boomer. He wants to save the America he remembers under Regan, and the one he grew up in under Eisenhower. In addition to the basic difficulties of politics & compromise generally, he wants to save the system that worked 40 years ago.
That America is dead, and something similar could only be built up by the combined herculean efforts of Zoomers, Alpha, and Alpha+1, working together to build something for Alpha+2. None of the Boomers truly understand how bad the situation is because they are too hard-headed to believe that they failed so completely any chance of the world they remember is now physically impossible for their children, their grand children, or even their great grand-children. Gen X might fund it (and for the most part I expect Millennials to stand in the way and oppose it), but that's how far behind we really are. We're not planting trees under which are children will sit. We're standing on a tarmac arguing about how to dig out the asphalt, find a place to put dirt, and figure out where water is going to come from so that we can begin to think about planting a seed for a tree.
Additionally, the rebellion against the Uniparty has been an ongoing struggle for 70 years that has failed almost every time. The John Birch Society, Goldwater, Buchanan, Reagan Revolutionaries, the TEA Party, etc. Most instances have either failed, or failed to have a follow-up success. Trump is the closes thing we have to real wins against the Neo-Liberal (read: Fabian Socialist) establishment that conquered the government almost 140 years ago.
Not just a boomer but a former Democrat for many years, whose only appears Rightward most of the time because of how dramatically that overton window has shifted.
He has moved Right himself on a lot of things over this last decade, but he is way too old and stubborn to make radical changes to his beliefs out of anything but spite. And its why hoping he was going to "save America" was always hyperbole, he is a live grenade tossed into the room to make something happen. And things have changed, however more or less people think they should.
I don't think it's hyperbole to say he was going to save America... from falling off a cliff. That much is true. But bringing about a true American restoration is a different goal entirely.
Right, but you see it in a lot of doomerism and overly MAGA types, where they treat him as an "all or nothing" savior whose every misstep is a sign that its all failed and everything was a lie.
On a long enough timeline I think we can say he "saved" it by reversing some courses and getting some balls rolling, but in the right now it'll feel like barely anything.