Quote:I'll tell you the reason this is happening.   Ever since Obama got elected, it has become profitable for people on the right of American politics to sell this idea that government is the enemy, and politicians are tools of government, so they are the enemy, too.  There was a race to the bottom to see who could make the most inflammatory statements about Obama, even about the very idea of government.  The Republican Party establishment stood by silently and allowed this to happen because it served their interests of opposing Obama.   But now, so many of the Republican base have bought into this idea, it's become a monster that has turned on its creators.   Hence, the Republican Party is about to be destroyed by its own creation.    They sat around in their ivory towers fomenting anarchy in the political system, and now they've lost control of their own party as a result. 

 

At least, that's one plausible theory. 

 

I watched a Trump rally the other day, and I was appalled by what I heard.   It was pure personality cult, I'm so great, I'm going to protect you from all these threats out there, like Mexicans, and Muslims.   We're going to shut them all out of the country, send them back to where they came from.   And by the way, did I mention how great I am at everything?   And everyone else is an idiot and a loser.  I'm going to take care of everybody.   Everyone in Washington is an idiot.   By the way, I am great.