Hasn't he wreaked enough destruction upon the remnants of the functional liberal democracy that emerged as we actually made progress on the road to a more perfect union? From the fall of Jim Crowe in the 50's, to the aspirations of a political party that no longer exists, but whose aspirations were expressed in the 1956 Republican platform.
On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."
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We shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free land.
And on to meaningful progress on civil rights for African Americans in the 60's, and then meaningful progress for women's rights in the 1970's.
Followed by backlash in the form of a forty-five year project by the radical right to turn back all that progress and transfer more than 50 trillion from the many to the few while making it impossible for ordinary people, disabled people, people born in poverty to access the American dream, however hard they worked.
Trump didn't co-opt the Republican Party. The Republican Party has been advancing its
racist, immoral, soulless project to destroy the powerhouse of progress that a functional liberal democracy represents for more than 40 years. And Trump is merely the culmination.
And they have gone too far.
And that is their undoing.
This is not the victory of fascist corporatism.
OUR backlash will be SOOOO much more powerful over the next few decades than the backlash of the soulless, immoral, racists ever has been.
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