One of the blogs linked in on our sidebar is City Father, the blog of a Catholic Priest in New York. It's always worth reading.
He's made some comments on the recent GOP primary results which are similar to those I've been making, but his most recent one is much more blunt. A sample:
No one should really have been surprised by this. If the moneyed, zombie Reaganite elite that used to run the party - the rich who undoubtedly believe the country is theirs to rule by right - still believed the party was theirs and that their un-rich, taken-for-granted constituents whom they have for decades brought off with culture-war sloganeering were still in their pockets, then they were likely the only ones who still believed one of their own could be imposed upon their increasingly left-behind and increasingly angry-about-it constituents.
I wouldn't put it quite that way, but he's spot on about the "taken for granted constituents". Indeed, for years I've been saying this about both parties, and while not noted in his post, many of the MAGA Republicans are actually disaffected Southern Democrats and Rust Belt Democrats brought into the GOP over a forty-year period, starting with Reagan's Southern Strategy.
Reagan was treated for years as if he was some sort of a saint. He came to define conservatism. Whatever he was, however, he unleashed the "Tea Party" forces that became the MAGA ones, and they are now the GOP. The old GOP isn't coming back. No new conservative party has yet emerged (one will). The Democratic Party, for its part, has ossified into the left wing, 1970s, version of itself and can't get out of it. Hubris has allowed this all to be vested into two, ancient, men. Donald Trump, as he increasingly evidences the onset of dementia, is going to win the general election. Reagan, and the Democrats having become the Supreme Court fan club, up until recently, post 1973, are to blame for that.
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