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How dare you believe that anything could help the Republicans! Don't you know that they're racist and the party is going to disintegrate any second?

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Well, I suspect the second part may well be true.

 

In seriousness, the Supreme Court vacancy and fear of five liberal justices going hog wild is one of the few things keeping the Republican party from completely scattering to the winds in the midst of this Trump insanity.

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The problem is that Republican leadership was calling them out all too frequently. That caused the radicalization and willingness to burn down the country to express anger.

 

Simple fact is that they felt disenfranchised. Doesn't excuse their solution (an authoritarian racist), but the problem wasn't caused by the Republican opinion makers going too soft on them. It was caused by their not being properly fed like the Democrats do for their radicals.

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National Review, that venerable flagship of American conservatism, is claiming that Donald Trump is no supporter of free speech, going as far as to equate him with the Social Justice Warriors. Ha ha ha ha!

Well ... maybe so.

But the article is right about one thing:

Trump and his horde of online social-justice followers aren’t conservative. They are neo-nationalist culture warriors who believe that conservatism is a weak or failed ideology. They write daily barrages on social media about how the GOP betrayed them.


You don't say?

Thing is, how much time did the G.O.P establishment have to stamp out political correctness? It's been a thing on U.S college campuses since the 1980s. So since Reagan, basically. Sure, PC was a useful foil for them on occasion. Like "big government" and other neo-con boogeymen that the conservative establishment pretended not to like. But what National Review and other establishment conservative voices won't tell you is that political correctness is, in fact, a very good thing for conservatives. It gives them a tool to get the base all riled up and keep them voting Republican, and (much more importantly) keeps the left focused on cultural as opposed to economic issues: "The way in which the university system has replaced the labor movement as the primary incubator of left-wing ideas — has been an unmitigated disaster."

 

Political correctness was the best thing to ever happen to the right wing in America. Being extremely pro-censorship, anti sex, obsessed with cultural and racial identity and hierarchy, authoritarian, paranoid and, above all, eschewing economic, materialist and class based analysis in favor of race based analysis of history and society to a degree that would make Hitler blush, the SJWs became the conservatives when social conservatism's traditional pillar - organized religion - began to falter.

 

It was good for the left too - they got to feel like they were fighting racism without actually having to address the underlying economic issues that hold back the poor and underclass. And, in many cases, line their pockets in the process. Most core democratic constituencies were doing all right, after all. Why pay more taxes for urban renewal when it's so much easier to just blog about all the awful racial stereotypes in the latest Hollywood block buster, represent some aggrieved soul in a hate speech suit, or design a curriculum for some fill-in-the-blank studies course at a liberal arts college?

 

If Donald Trump is going to threaten political correctness for real, you'd better believe that won't go over well with either the democratic OR the republican establishments.

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Just a quick point that I was right that this was a non-story that, if anything, acted as a unifying force for Trump. Which is directly opposite the media conventional wisdom/Democrat talking point that Republicans were shooting themselves in the foot.

 

The media always makes an assumption that everything Republicans do other than capitulate to liberal policies or DOOOOOOM. It's almost as if they do that to prey on their inherent sense of inferiority.

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