We are pretty nearly at the end of any need to respond in considered fashion, to much of anything Hinderaker posts henceforth — it is all now self-refuting. [I’ll revise the masthead in a minute to suggest no one should ever trust John’s views on any scientific matter.]
So it is… that John’s claims have always lacked discernible evidence, but when his boy Trump promulgated policies that only benefited the ultra-wealthy, and the at least third generation white, US born peoples, it became — and is… now simply silly — to call the GOP the party of the “working class“. But that is what Hinderaker just did.
He suggested that the future of the GOP lies in marrying Trumpism (anti-immigrant policies, tariffs and tax cuts for billionaires) to more frugal spending, at the federal governmental level. Okay.
I for one actually hope the GOP is as stupid as John suggests — to embrace such a mindless, cruel and backward-looking set of priorities.
It will mean the party never wins another presidential election. Fine by me.
Perfect, in fact.
It does acknowledge a second reality — that Trump’s views are also the views of the 1920s Klan — and they were explicitly fostered by all the loyal GOP members these last four years. Especially Hinderaker. As if, unaware of his irony — and thus to prove this point, John attaches a Coolidge Foundation video, as the way “forward“.
It is absolutely indisputable fact that Coolidge occupied 1600 Penn during most of the decade that saw the Klan reach perhaps 5 million members — its all time high. The Klan began to fade after the Crash of 1929, and the onset of the Great Depression — but Coolidge never directly rebuked those home-grown white terrorists.
Just as Trump never directly rebuked the Proud Boys, or the Boo-A-Loo Bois.
So yes, John’s accurately captures… what he wants the future of the GOP to be — and that is… a throw-back to / re-incarnation of the Klan of the 1920s. Makes perfect sense, John.
Out.
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