For the past fifty years, the Republican Party has
been a mash-up of fiscal conservatives, religious conservatives and White
workers who complained that too many people of color were on welfare. This
election cycle, Donald Trump has surprised the Republic Party by finding a
comfy niche by reaching out to these working stiffs. White Collar Republicans are
surprised and upset that the racist and irascible Trump has peeled off a good
portion of their party and made it his own.
"I love the poorly educated!" - Donald
Trump
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Trump followers believe that Democrats and
Republicans are both complicit in causing the current congressional stalemate. Voting
for Trump is their way of showing distain for the Republican Party. They lump
Republicans in with immigrants, Muslims and Mexicans. They agree with Trump
when he blasts our government for sending good-paying jobs to China.
In the past, the Republican Party used a subtle racist
code to attract and assimilate these less-educated voters. But Donald Trump
dispenses with such code and civility. According to many Trump sycophants,
"Trump is not politically correct. He just tells it like it is.”
White Collar Republicans don‘t like that the veneer
of their party is in tatters, exposing their bigoted underbelly. In 2016, the
Republican Party wanted the elitist Jeb Bush as their standard bearer, not the unaffiliated
and self-funded blow-hard Donald Trump.
Republicans never expected that any Presidential
candidate would be so blatantly racist. The party leadership was definitely caught
off guard. The party leadership, including the Bush's felt that Trumps
bombastic remarks would be his downfall. But his working class followers loved
it. Now the Republican Party is in total disarray, scrambling to stop the Trump
express.
This devolution started when Rep. John Boehner lost control of the
House of representatives to the upstart Tea Party. A few months removed from
his resignation, the Republican Party has completely lost
control of the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary Campaign narrative.
For the past seven years the Republican Party has
been saying Barack Obama is tearing down America. That America was no longer
great. Complaining that "Mexican" immigration was a big problem. Warning
that Obama was giving free stuff to "minorities." And the annual
White Collar Republican harangue ‑ that the rich should not pay more taxes because
the government would just turn around and give their hard earned millions in
the form of welfare to "lazy minorities."
But Trump isn't sticking to the standard Republican script.
Donald Trump is being "blatantly" Republican. He is the product of
seven years of Republican vitriol aimed at our "Black" President. Donald
Trump was born from the ashes of a now fractured Republican Party and spawned
by their racism.
My thoughts, my opinion, Jesús Manuel Mena Garza, March 3, 2016
