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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's amazing that Trump did something most thought was impossible. He beat the duopoly. He's basically leading third party that won in a system that doesn't allow a third party so he had to hijack one of them.
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No he didn't. He's just the logical progression of what the Republican party was already becoming.
Government by billionaires for billionaires is just a stronger version of Reaganism, of the sale of trickle-down economics to the masses. Trump's election stems from the elimination of the fairness doctrine in 1987, which allowed for the emergence of right-wing media bubbles. He follows in the path of Newt Gingrich, who made screwing the Dems a core Republican value. He operates in the post-fact world established by Bush, who sold the nation on a war to address Saddam's weapons of mass destruction that did not actually exist. The vein of anti-intellectualism he embodies flows from the Tea Party, who turned away from expertise and towards ignorant populism. He's an idiot in a position he's deeply unqualified for, and as such he's Sara Palin's spiritual successor.
He didn't usurp the Republican party. They we already rolling out the red carpet for him (or some other similar charlatan). He's the leopard eating the faces of the face-eating leopard party.