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Junior Chimp
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« on: June 07, 2020, 03:03:37 PM » |
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"Trumpism" (to the extent that it's even a thing) was not something that just started with Trump. The GOP base had been moving in the direction of right-wing populism since the Tea Party and there were several high-profile primary elections that set the tone for Trump's primary victory in 2016 (most notably VA-07 in 2014). Because of that, I expect the future GOP to be closer to this mold even if Trump himself loses decisively and gets abandoned by the party. It's also helpful to that wing of the party that much of the Republicans have shed a good chunk of their anti-Trump faction to the Democrats (specifically socially liberal voters in urban/suburban areas) who seem unlikely to come back given their poor fit/trajectory of the contemporary party.
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