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The Booman surveys the field of Republican candidates and their hate-full, bigoted positions and points out that the rhetoric is not so much cause as effect:
Trump is doing great in the polls for a reason, and it’s not because he’s out there explaining Ronald Reagan Republicanism to the masses.
Republican insiders created the appetite for this rhetoric. They’re to blame for the fact that there is now a massive constituency who wants their candidates to deliver on it.
As I’ve noted before, Richard Nixon’s odious Southern strategy has come full circle. Nixon believed that the Republican Party could use bigots and racists to its political advantage; the bigots and racists now use–indeed, one can argue that they are–the Republican Party.
