Why the GOP acts as it does

The GOP has become a fashion show

for empty-headed

vicious,

gun-toting.

bigoted haters.

You may remember when the GOP was the staid, common-sense party,

the calm, sober, solemn, religious party.

It was the party of Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.

No flashy, wild ideas there.

It was the party of kind, friendly, “everyman” Ronald Reagan.

It was the party of the Bushes.

That party had ideas:

Fiscal responsibility.

Business growth.

Military strength.

They were patriots.

The believed in democracy.

They despised authoritarianism and the Hitlers, Stalins, Maos, and Mussolinis of the world.

Some were in the military.

They were intelligent men.

They attended church.

They surrounded themselves with intelligent people.

That was what Republican voters wanted.

Then came Donald Trump,

and everything changed for the GOP.

He lacked intelligence.

He lacked ideas.

He lacked a philosophy.

He lacked morals.

or befriended

way to many unintelligent,

and/or amoral,

often criminal,

that Mexican immigrants are rapists and drug dealers,

and blacks are criminals and animals,

and Muslims are terrorists,

and the poor are lazy takers,

and gays are “groomers,”

but nazis, white supremacists, and traitors attacking Congress are good people.

And his base, the MAGAs, being less educated and

possibly less intelligent than the median American

is more naive about conspiracy theories.

and believing of such conspiracy theorists as Alex Jones.

His base is the perfect audience for the outrageous lies thrown at them

And the GOP knows it.

So they give the people what they want: Lies, bigotry, hatred, fear, and conspiracies.

No, the government is not planting microchips in your body via vaccination,

and no, Hillary Clinton is not holding children in the basement of a pizza parlor.

An irreligious man, who cheats on his wives and consorts with hookers,

has the backing of conservative evangelical Christians (!)

and the Church of Jesus Christ Later Day Saints (Mormons) (!)

And somehow these religious people are able to justify their hatred of immigrants

and people of color,

and rationalize their support for this man so antithetical to everything their God has preached

because they are enthralled with his embrace of hell.

He has planted fear in their minds, and then presented himself as their savior.

and they believe him.

The more religious they are, the more they believe. Their piety has primed them to believe the impossible.

They confuse the man’s psychopathy with strength, though in truth, he is weak, morally, psychologically, and physically.