Josh Marshall looks at how both Trump said the quiet parts out loud when it came to racism and how the GOP has not abandoned those politics since he lost. The hope was that the GOP would moderate after Trump waddled off the national stage. To a certain degree, Trump really has waddled off. His ban from Twitter has actually worked to deny him oxygen. He's still out there saying repulsive things, but it's not thrust in our faces every hour. Instead, the GOP is going full GQP and White Nationalist. They've abandoned the messenger as flawed but kept his repellent message.
In much the same way that the Republic denied Democrats power for decades after the Civil War (because of their association with treason), we need to make sure the GOP never gets back in power until they've abandoned overt race-based authoritarianism.
I'm not optimistic that will happen. I don't think Americans are eager to embrace the central fact that the GOP has gone insane.
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