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It’s Not Over When Trump Goes
The battle against GOP white nationalism is only beginning.
Dominance-based authoritarians like Trump hold immense power until the moment in which it starts to slip away. Then they lose it with shocking speed as the cowards that supported him flee the legal and political ramifications of his actions.
Trump is not the source of GOP authoritarianism. He is simply the figurehead. NEVER FORGET, because of it’s collective four year silence, the GOP has invested its entire future in Trump’s strong man white nationalism, trading our democratic rights for his power grab.
The GOP’s collective history predates and foreshadows Trumpism, using racism to win elections since first co-oping racist Southern voters after the Voting and Civils rights acts were passed in the 60’s. The GOP has since worked for decades to suppress the vote, gerrymander, eliminate voting rights legislation and more.
What Trump does represent is the moment when the GOP pushed all their chips onto the table and bet on ending democracy. They took off their false mask of rational conservatism and went full on white nationalist authoritarian. The GOP collectively made the ugly self serving calculation that Trump could pull it off.
