Democracy in the wrong place enables demagogy.
Donald Blankenship.
Donald Trump.
The GOP was the party of Eisenhower and Nixon who gave us the Warren Court, a civil rights bill, federally enforced desegregation (Little Rock), and the EPA and thought conservatives and libertarians who wanted to undo the New Deal and abolish Big Government were idiots.
Then those same libertarians and conservatives, enemies of Big Government to a man but free traders, globalists, and anti-nationalists, took over the party and, as the so-called "Republican establishment", wanted no part of Donald Trump, and even now wants no part of Donald Blankenship.
During the 2016 campaign, they rejected Trump and rejected every piece of his Buchananist agenda, to date implemented only so far as Trump could manage it against the resistance of the Congress, the courts, and pretty much everybody in the executive branch, including some key people in the White House.
But now the uprising of the Buchananite rabble enabled by too much procedural democracy in the selection process for candidates does more damage every day, and the GOP is increasingly the party of people like Joe Arpaio, Judge Roy Moore, and Don Blankenship, all convicted of felonious defiance of federal authority, and Donald Trump, who can't go a week without angrily and brutally denouncing the federal courts, the FBI, the Justice Department, the Congress, immigration law, free trade agreements, the press, the Democrats, and whatever regulatory agency you care to name.
Big lie propaganda, protectionism, and even Luddism for industries that are dying and jobs that are obsolete are high on their agenda.
Utter loathing for the institutions of the federal government define them and their supporters.
Full frontal Buchananism, angry, defensive, and resentful white tribalism included.
The Democrats have become a party that honors Lincoln and upholds the ideals of the Radical Republicans.
The increasingly Trumpist and Buchananist Republicans are becoming a Nativist, white nationalist party that undermines the rule of law at every turn and defends public honors for Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
West Virginia primary: Blankenship brushes off 'bigot,' 'moron' accusations in radio ad
Don Blankenship looks to send Trump a message with a primary win in West Virginia
Update, 5/9/18.
Blankenship came in third. Morrissey won.
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