(ThyBlackMan.com) “Liz, you’re fired,” Trump roared not to hundreds but thousands who attended a rally recently in Casper, Wyoming. He was lambasting GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of his most vociferous GOP critics. She almost certainly was doomed to lose her seat to a Trump-backed challenger in the GOP primary. The Wyoming Trump rally was part devotional, part revival, and part Trump adulation. The rash of probes, FBI raids, subpoenas, and congressional hearings into his role in inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection meant absolutely nothing to the Trump throngs.
The Wyoming Trump lovefest and the certain defeat of Cheney were just one more sign that Trump’s grip on the GOP hasn’t loosened one bit. In the rash of primaries in several states the first week of August, Trump endorsed candidates who either won their primary jousts or were competitive. What was even scarier the Trump-backed candidates were a motley bunch of near-loon white nationalists, Biden election deniers, and conspiracy theorists. They were anything but nut case outliers. They are very much an intimate part of the political soul of the GOP going forward.
Many are still mystified about one of the greatest ironies of American politics. That is, how Donald Trump, a guy that almost no one in the GOP political establishment, in the beginning, liked, despite everything dirty about him still owns and runs that establishment lock, stock, and barrel. Start with the numbers. The 74 million votes he got in his 2020 presidential loss is the greatest number of votes a losing presidential candidate has gotten in a free election anywhere, ever. In fact, it’s a greater number than any American presidential winner has ever gotten. But it’s how Trump got those staggering numbers that still tell much about why GOP politicians of all stripes remain scared stiff of Trump.
In part, it’s rage and rebellion against the perceived wheel and dealing corporate, beltway Democrats and Republicans. In another, it’s a passionate belief that Trump talks the talk and fights the fight for less educated blue and rural collar workers, a healthy segment of middle-class suburbia, and a not inconsiderable number of Blacks and Hispanics. In even bigger part, it’s his deep tap of the racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, nativist, know nothing fear and loathing that is a foundational part of American life.
These remain powerful, undeniable forces that propel American politics. So powerful, that in spite of the irrefutable proof that the 2020 presidential vote and vote process was accurate and untainted, more than half of Republicans two years after the election still doggedly claim the election was stolen from Trump. They are so enraged that they spin every kind of ridiculous conspiracy theory about the alleged theft and make clear they’ll never acknowledge the legitimacy of the Biden presidency.
Donald Trump’s vote numbers and the frenzy of his backers are the life support of the GOP. Without them, the GOP is in graver danger of losing one or more of the nearly two dozen Senate seats that it must defend in the 2022 mid-term elections. Any GOP falling off the cliff here means the GOP can kiss any chance it has to take back the Senate goodbye. This would blow to smithereens McConnell’s long game of hectoring, harassing, and obstructing any and every major initiative of Biden and the Democrats in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. He must have the Senate firewall for that.
Much is made that America will no longer be an old white guy-run country in 2050, that white male voters have steadily dropped in national elections, and that Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, and young persons will be the new majority voters. But that’s still way off, maybe a long way off. White males still have outsized voter clout in the crucial Heartland states and the South.
Trump knows that and talks to them in the giant circus-like exhibitions he holds that pass for campaign rallies on their vote turf. He openly brags at his rallies that he’ll continue to do exactly what got him elected in 2016. That is to continue to play hard on his base’s latent racist, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, pseudo- patriotic sentiment. The added element in light of the probes, raids on his compound, and the January 6 congressional investigation are to play even harder on the conspiracy to get him theory.
The blunt reality is that Donald Trump was always more than the titular head of the GOP. He was the point man for GOP policy and issues and, in a perverse way, the spur to get action on them. Donald Trump showed that he could give the GOP a big boost in its relentless drive to damp down the Democratic voter turnout by rigging, playing dirty, and gerrymandering. The millions that swear by him still is frightening proof that the GOP is still very much Donald Trump’s party.
Written By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
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He is also an associate editor of New America Media. His forthcoming book is From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History (Middle Passage Press).
Citizens of the United States of America should abandon in droves their beliefs, and support of the Republican Party( i.e. the party of the rich ) because this party, with its promise of an untold number of existential, nihilistic, authoritarian political models, has already abandoned their beliefs in the U.S. Constitution, and our American pluralistic democracy with its capitalist economic base. The futuristic political whiplash caused by being yanked from one reality created by a republican existential, nihilistic, authoritarian to another will destroy all of our sense of governmental security. There will be no United States of America only fragmented loyalties by the uneducated at the state and local levels. The republicans intend to destroy our democracy, and our lex populi ( law by the people).
Working class people should not believe in the existential, nihilistic, authoritarian dreams of the American rich who can only imagine their pleasures derived after leading us back to a political, and social class permanently fixed, archaic, dictatorship previously modeled as colonialism, and anti-bellum south, and previously utilized as global European colonialism. It has been the political and social models delivered via the U.S. Constitution that have made possible social and economic advancements for all of our citizens not the leadership of an authoritarian that is now promised by republicans who want to make our world what they want it to be, and we must bend to their wills.
Our lives are not toys to be played with by rich republicans who don’t necessarily know what is, or is not good for us. We shouldn’t have to live out our lives dancing to the rich man’s tunes. The biblical King Solomon, the supposed author of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the King James Version of the Holy Bible, speaks of his perceptions of life as a nihilist authoritarian king ( i.e. Solomon’s world view ) with the power to make his kingdom a tabula rasa ( i.e. blank page to be written upon by his hand only ),and then writes and speaks into existence any other res publica ( i.e. political entity ) he chooses. Solomon viewed his world as a ” vanity of vanities “, (i.e. the pointlessness of human activity) and nothing more. It is this kind of life that is promised by ex-president Trump, and the Republican Party, and millions of believing citizens voted for him.
The U.S. Constitution does not condemn us to continued groping in intellectual darkness awaiting the next command from our enlightened, existential, nihilistic authoritarian. We are free to choose and change our leadership peacefully after careful consideration thereof. Abandon the Republican Party, and choose freedom over, existential, nihilistic, authoritarianism.
Not all blacks agree with you about Trump.
“Another point of critical importance is that Trump policies have been a boon to America’s minorities. Despite the success of left-wing demagogues in portraying the Trump presidency as racist, facts show truth to be the complete opposite.
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act fueled economic growth that the nation had not seen in years.
This was aided further by deregulation. Tax cuts and deregulation targeted at restoring the global competitiveness of American business and restoring conditions friendly to investment fueled job growth and an unemployment rate of 3.5% that no one thought possible.
And, as reported by the Wall Street Journal: “Median weekly full-time earnings for blacks increased 19% in Mr. Trump’s first three years, to $806. That followed a period of 11% growth during Mr. Obama’s seven post-recession years in office.”
According to the Federal Reserve’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances, the largest growth in household net worth from 2016 to 2019 occurred in households in the lowest 20% of income, 34.3%.
Black median household income increased 7.9% in 2019, the largest annual increase in history.
And, in 2019, for the first time ever, the percentage of black households earning above $75,000, 29.4%, exceeded the percentage earning below $25,000, 28.7%.”
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/star-parker/president-trump-promises-made-promises-kept
You claim without evidence that Trump is a racist almost in the same breath as you yourself state “and a not inconsiderable number of Blacks and Hispanics.” Only someone with a clear lack of capability to reconcile reality with their own preconceived notions could come to such a conclusion.
If you can’t reason how can you be a writer who is anything more than a parrot.
Shoo Parrot