Filed Under: “Conservatism”
The conspiracism, Christian nationalism, and pandering to racists we see today in the GOP was brought into the party long before Trump
GOP’s divide and conquer politics now focused on trans people
Mitch McConnell’s filibuster abuses have enabled the GOP to avoid electoral consequences for its unpopular policies, and skewed the center of U.S. politics to the right
The intellectual destruction of Christian fundamentalism has caused the American right to believe that truth is entirely the product of social power
Big business was an integral part of the conservative political coalition for decades, but growing GOP extremism has made executives uncomfortable.
Instead of conducting an autopsy on why Trump and Trumpism failed in 2020, conservative elites at the annual CPAC conference decided to just ignore their problems.
Right-wing elites are so divided internally, they’ve settled on a de facto domestic policy: do nothing. It’s why Trump passed almost no legislation as president.
Republican consultants and elected officials have leveraged religious and racial bigotry for decades. But post-Trump, they can no longer control the forces they have unleashed.