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...when it comes to Republican voters I don't divide 'em up into good guys and bad guys. They elected Donald Trump. They didn't elect him because they thought he would deliver smaller government or advance whatever passes for a conservative agenda, they just sent him in as a wrecking ball.
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Not to fix anything. Just to do as much damage as possible to the US Government. I agree Greger. Trump and his supporters are attracted to chaos and want to inflict it on others, and they understand it to be a viable strategy for destroying our multicultural society. Trump and his supporters agree with this statement: “We cannot fix the problems in our social institutions, we need to tear them down and start over.” Trump and his supporters are so discontent that they are willing to mobilize against the current political order to see if what emerges from the resulting chaos has something better in stock for them. 
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I will also submit that modern Conservatives exhibit the “dark triad” of human behavior — Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism and that is Donald J Trump in a nutshell.
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The Republican Party, Fox News and other elite rightwing groups see Trumpism (modern Conservatism) as their best chance to destroy America’s multicultural democracy, profit from environment disaster, gut the social safety net, destroy the commons, slash taxes on the wealthy and large corporations, or (in extreme cases) install a Christian nationalist regime. This thread validates these points pretty well.  Trumpism is not and never has been modern conservatism! Trump is populist pretending to be Republican/Conservative. The only thing that you got right in this comment pdx rick is the desire of Republicans/Conservatives to slash taxes on corporations. No corporation has or will ever pay any taxes. All of the money all businesses get, whether it is a small business on Main St. or the largest corporation in the world, comes from us, the consumers. If we don't buy a product from a business it does not make any money. We are the source of revenue for all businesses. The taxes all businesses pay is part of the price we pay for their products.
The state can never straighten the crooked timber of humanity.
I'm a conservative because I question authority.
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Trumpism is not and never has been modern conservatism! T-Party activists would disagree with you.
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Trumpism is not and never has been modern conservatism! T-Party activists would disagree with you. I was a T-Party activist so I know you are wrong!
The state can never straighten the crooked timber of humanity.
I'm a conservative because I question authority.
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Why am I not surprised. The revolution that made the Republican Party what is is today.
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Why am I not surprised. The revolution that made the Republican Party what is is today. M'kay? Ergo, the modern Conservative moniker.
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Why am I not surprised. The revolution that made the Republican Party what is is today. A revolution that failed because the Republican Party lost its way thanks to a hostile takeover by Donald J. Trump.
The state can never straighten the crooked timber of humanity.
I'm a conservative because I question authority.
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Why am I not surprised. The revolution that made the Republican Party what is is today. A revolution that failed because the Republican Party lost its way thanks to a hostile takeover by Donald J. Trump. Oh puh-leeeze.  How is Donald Trump any different from the T-Party? Trump is a continuation of the T-Party. In fact, I dare share that the T-Party shaped Donald Trump's platform.
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A revolution that failed because the Republican Party lost its way thanks to a hostile takeover by Donald J. Trump. WHOOO-HA!! That one hit my funny bone!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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