Not all Conservatives have contributed to the hateful rhetoric that's enabled people like Trump to prosper. Their party has been hijacked by radicals and it's sad.
How many of them have contributed to:
- Making voter ID laws unacceptable in a post-Civil Rights Movement America?
- Ending modern forms of discrimination against minorities and women, such as the gender pay gap, drug wars, scapegoating of immigrants, demonization of Muslims and anyone else from the Middle East/Southeast Asia, perpetuation of Middle Age sexual norms based on the idea that female promiscuity is the worst possible sin, etc.?
- Advancing the study of climate change and policies aimed at curbing climate change as a serious matter that it is unacceptable for their colleagues to ignore?
- Fixing our broken campaign finance system?
- Addressing income inequality through measures that limit the ability of the super-rich to exploit working class people to amass huge wealth?
- Making healthcare a right and not a privilege?
The problem with the Republican Party today is that it - as a party institution - is committed to exactly the opposite of all of these things. And those commitments make it toothless against, and indeed a contributor to, hateful rhetoric, xenophobia, misogyny, anti-scientific policy, increasing inequality and decreasing economic mobility, etc.
