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Originally Posted by FlameOn
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In my opinion this is actually an attempt to neuter some of the wealthy elites who have purchased the GOP.
In the way the Tea Party was turned into a verb to describe establishment politicians, GOP politicians, losing their spots to fanatics, the new terminology will be 'Trumped'.
GOP establishment does NOT want Trump infecting/being associated with GOP policy positions like tax cuts for the wealthy and systemic financial and environmental deregulation. That's where you're seeing some of the pushbackk from GOP establishment types. Paul Ryan does not want his healthcare plan to be associated with Trump's dismal approval rating.
Ultimately, the white nationalists shaping Trump's presidency and world view are not in lock-step with establishment GOP politicians, ESPECIALLY leadership.
Paul Ryan is basically an anarcho-capitalist, a free-market anarchist at heart. White Nationalists are by nature hostile to this landscape as at their core they are about the preservation of white labour, a cringe worthy stalagmite of socialism.
There are deep, deep divisions within the GOP on how to exert control over the increasingly desperate portion of their base, white men, who are looking for someothing--anything-- that might ease their suffering. To these white men it is becoming increasingly obvious that standard GOP policy platforms like low taxes for the rich and a puncher's chance for health coverage simply are not doing anything for these increasingly desperate males, and they are turning on core conservatism in favour of, in their eyes, a more practical application of what they really want: socialism for whites only.
Paul Ryan doesn't represent these interests, and the more time he pretends to be a can-do politician from the fantasy reagan years, the more he'll be regarded as a race traitor to the voters of Appalachia and the southern gulf coast where the GOP heartlland resides.