'The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations; the people who make up its governing class are similarly fractured.'
US News and World Report has a story about how the fringe has become the mainstream in the Republican Party. The headline of theirThe GOP is no longer a normal political party with a single governing philosophy: instead, it's become a coalition of interest groups, each seeking its own ends.The GOP is no longer a normal political party with a single governing philosophy: instead, it's become a coalition of interest groups, each seeking its own ends.It all started with the billionaires.
But billionaires aren't enough to make a political party and win elections so, when the GOP put itself up for sale in 1978 after Lewis Powell wrote the decision in the Bellotti Supreme Court case allowing that, the Republicans around Reagan pulled together a coalition of voters large enough to win elections. They are:
4. Upper middle class white people. Ironically, this is the group that's been most badly screwed by Republican tax policies, but theyRepublican in any case. While billionaires pay only around 3% income taxes these days because of loopholes they paid Republicans to drill into law, people like surgeons making a few hundred thousand a year often pay 50% or more in taxes.
But, while they don't generally recognize the word neoliberalism, that system which includes offshoring jobs, massive tax cuts for the rich , privatization of government functions, and gutting the social safety net has fallen out of favor among most voters.
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