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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
The derangedness is gonna stay there. Remember the Teabaggers? Birthers? Churchers? It all happened under Barack Obama's presidency. They couldn't stand seeing a black man in charge, they were told that's not how you overcome a brutal recession, that your granny was gonna have to go after the "death panels" gave her the thumbs-down...
Look, the Republican credo —"small government", magical tax cuts, imaginary friends— is one thing. WHY MUST THAT MEAN SUPPORTING A MONSTER LIKE TRUMP. Why is it so hard to say, yes, I'm a Republican, I believe Reagan's bullshit, but I won't stand for an egregriously racist, misogynistic, authoritarian, treasonous, willfully ignorant turd of a person who governs by tweet and says/does a crazy fucked-up thing daily/hourly to stay in the news loop? The two or three people in this board who vocally (and passionately, as it turns out) back him are gone, there's no deprogramming possible.
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Because Reagan's appeal lay in many of those things; "welfare queens", calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" to justify pouring millions into the military, ignoring the AIDS epidemic. The biggest difference was Reagan was more soft-spoken about it. At the end of the day the goal of the Republican party in the modern age is domination of the "sinful" (poor, black/brown, LGBT) by the "righteous" (rich male WASPs) at home and making the rest of the world subservient to US interests.
Removing Trump may not mortally wound his ideology, but it would give it a good scar it'd do well to not forget how it got it.