Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.

Let’s be clear about one thing:

The Republican Party was NOT made into a fascist party by Trump. The Republican Party was already well down the road of Christo-Fascism, Trump just speeded up the process.

Trump’s attempt to subvert democracy was something he had said over and over again he was going to do, and indeed is a necessary feature of his entire conspiratorial white supremacist frame.

The whole idea of Trumpism without Trump is oxymoronic, because Trump is more symptom than cause. “Trumpism” is just shorthand for “chosen people” democracy American style, meaning white supremacy coupled with nationalist theocratic Christianity. The plutocrats who have traditionally controlled the Republican party were deluding themselves when they thought they could exploit the central motivating forces for contemporary conservatism without having those forces eventually take control of the party.

As Barry Goldwater told the Repubicans (or tried to tell the Republicans):

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. know, I've tried to deal with them. ~ Republican Barry Goldwater