Is Trump's real agenda to monetize the fringe right wing base?

[SuaveSocialist]

Leadified said:

SuaveSocialist said:
Considering how well Drumpf is doing in the polls, I find it difficult to differentiate the right wing base from the fringe. With Bush 2, Palin and now Drumpf, the Republicans are looking more like a fringe party with each passing election cycle.

As for the question at hand, Drumpf characterizes himself as a "winner"--I don't think he wants to be remembered as a loser. Winning wouldn't stop him from having a run at a fascist network. Winning would probably make it easier.

Bush Jr. and McCain* were hardly fringe, especially the former who defeated both Al Gore and John Kerry. Trump and Palin can be considered fringe, especially Trump, due to appealing to fringe groups in the Republican Party (the alt-right and paleoconservatives) and even being in conflict with the rest of the mainstream party. The Republicans currently control the Congress and Senate, and will probably to continue to control at least one of them after the election, not to mention that most governors are Republican. The Republican Party is a long ways from being a fringe party.

I'm no fan of Trump but to suggest he's a fascist is ridiculous, something that even Trump's critics have conceded, and not a proper synonym for authoritarian.

I call Drumpf a Fascist because his "policies", methodology and rhetoric are consistent with fascism.  Authoritarians are on both sides of the Political Spectrum; Fascists only on the Far Right.

 

The "Party of Lincoln and Reagan" has a future...the Party of Nixon and Palin does not.  That's why Republicans are in the midst of the Great Pants-Crapping of 2016, anyways; their hold on the House and Senate has been considerably weakened by Drumpf and those who support him.

 

The GOP will need to worry about bigger issues than banning dildos or worrying about who uses which bathroom if they want to halt their steady march into political obscurity.