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Originally Posted by Namath12
He's right. This has been the GOP since it embraced the Dixiecrats/Southern Strategy. Trump just says the **** out loud now.
I agree, Trump is a racist and the GOP have been racist for decades. However racism is not the central tenet of trumpism. Authoritarianism is the central tenet and that is very new for the GOP. It is from this tenet that all the worst parts of his presidecy are derived. The anti-media, anti-intellectual attacks on fact. The calls for fidelity to the king. The hatred of checks and balances. The very erosion of democracy.
Racism is a throughline but Trumpism is absolutely not the same thing as the GOP even 5 years ago.