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Enough with the “Party of Lincoln” nonsense. The Republican Party is now the Party of Trump, and that means the party of nativism, racism, religious bigotry and white nationalism.
They no longer campaign for office on platforms of small government as a matter of economic principle. They no longer advocate free trade. Rather, they beat the drums of xenophobia, speak of the nation being “overrun” by swarms of dark-skinned others, and warn of the existential threat to western culture itself posed by migrants of color and Muslims.
And their congressional representatives stand by while their leader — the President — tells four congresswomen of color to go back where they came from if they don’t like America as it currently exists, under his administration.
Rather than calling out this racism for what it is, Republican leaders were more upset about Democrats labeling Trump racist than for Trump being racist. And polls indicate the president’s approval rating went up among Republicans after he did it. Both are definitive indications that the party has now decided to go all in as a white nationalist cult.
The GOP has finally and fully metamorphosed into the very thing it initially opposed. They are…
