I have a couple really good friends who are “conservative” Christians and who, a year or two ago, felt a sense of identity with the so-called “Tea Party” movement of the republican party.  At the time I tried to point out the level of racism that existed in that “faction” and both of my friends were unable to see this.  I had witnessed the deplorable signs and comments that were commonplace at “Tea Party” rallies – disrespecting President Obama in the most disgusting of ways – and the “Tea Party convention” that led to a group of fringe right wing fanatics winning elections all across America in 2010 – supported with the funding of the now infamous “Koch Brothers” – and subsequently this group, for all intents and purposes, taking over control of the House of Representatives.  I’ve been pointing out the OVERT racism of this group of republicans since that election – and, I’ve been lamenting our “liberal media’s” reluctance to “tell it like it is” – to the point where I got tired of pointing this REALITY out OVER and OVER.

Well, what I’m now finding quite interesting is watching the republican “establishment” falling all over themselves trying to figure out how to stop this movement in its tracks.  It was fine while it provided them with a majority in the House of Representatives (and, subsequently in the Senate as well) but, now, with the emergence of Donald Trump as the “presumptive” republican nominee for president the “leaders” of the republican party are showing their “mettle” in a very public way.  I put it in those words because I’ve been pointing out for years the TRUTH about the republican party and those who are pulling the “purse strings” since the days of GW Bush and Dick Cheney.  This is a group of people who’ve been trying to game the American system of government in an attempt to bypass the intentions of our “founders” by “outsmarting” the system of “checks and balances.”  Their plan is crumbling right before their (and all of America’s) eyes!

When the American constitution was being debated, the “father” of the constitution, James Madison, along with the likes of Thomas Jefferson and many others, were adamant in their determination to prevent “factions” (groups of people who put their self interests above the well-being of “we the people”) from gaining a stranglehold on America’s government.  For the past 40+ years the republican party has been actively attempting to do an end run around the system of checks and balances designed to prevent one group from controlling those who don’t agree with them.  In this instance, we’re talking about the almost 45 year (secret) plan, originally put forward (in 1972) by soon to be chief justice of the Supreme Court Lewis Powell, for corporate interests to be able to dominate America’s political landscape.  A person would have to be one of the MILLIONS of “low information voters” in America not to realize that the republicans have been dangerously successful in this plot for almost total control of our government.

Donald Trump refers to these “low information voters” as “uneducated voters” and he points out that he “really loves the uneducated voters.”  Obviously, many of these voters are now choosing to vote for Trump and the republican “establishment,” which has “courted” these people since the days of Ronald Reagan, are in a state of near hysteria.  They are realizing that a national campaign with Trump as their “standard bearer” could do to their party what I’ve been proposing should happen since John McCain somehow thought that Sarah Palin was qualified to be a “heartbeat from the presidency.”  (and, of course, McCain has a heart that could have been a problem had he been elected)  Their plan for a “permanent republican ‘majority'” is teetering.

Here’s the problem: (from the republican standpoint) I believe the damage has already been done.  We’re talking about 40% of the so-called republican “base” supporting Trump.  Interestingly, Ted Cruz – who I find almost more dangerous than Trump – has about 25% of the votes in the republican primaries.  Cruz was referred to by Lindsay Graham – one of the “establishment” republicans who’ve said NOTHING about the racist rhetoric of the “Tea Party” while it has been providing congressional majorities for his party – in a comparison to Trump as the difference between death by poison or murder.  Trump and Cruz represent well over 50% of the republican party.  The party “establishment” wants neither.  It’s all coming home to “roost.”  What are all these voters (who support Trump or Cruz) to do when the “establishment” finds an alternative candidate in a “contested” convention?  Trump is suggesting riots.  Wouldn’t that just make everything clear to the American people as to the “legitimacy” of our republican party?  There’s an old saying: “If you mess with the Bull, you get the horn!”

I long ago got to the point where I couldn’t stand to watch Fox “news” even for a minute – for a while I’d watch it just for the sake of being informed – but, they are so dishonest and so involved in creating the mess the “conservatives” are now stuck with – that my stomach could no longer stand any of it.  I started watching MSNBC in an attempt to get information back when Keith Olberman was giving us “The Worst Person in the World” on a nightly basis” and looked at them as a reasonable “balance” to Fox – MSNBC was clearly tilted to the “left.”  However, along comes Comcast and soon Olberman, then Ed Schultz, and others are “gone” and MSNBC is showing signs of tilting back toward the “right.”  (Yes, there’s still Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O’Donnell)

In what appears to me a blatant attempt to capitalize on the spectacle of Donald Trump I’ve had to listen to (or watch) MSNBC give Trump what amounts to MILLIONS of free advertising as they’ve covered his “campaign” in a way that I’ve never seen before (and, certainly helped to prop Trump up) – in some instances showing entire speeches – and, in many instances referring to Trump in a way that would suggest he’s an qualified candidate for president.  I’ve heard several commentators comment that Trump will make the election “entertaining” – as if that’s important.   (I’m talking about episodes I’ve heard or seen where Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd – the so-called political “experts” on MSNBC – have appeared to be attempting to give Trump’s campaign “legitimacy”) Now that the reality of a Trump candidacy is “setting in” I’m getting the impression that the commentators on MSNBC have “changed their tune.”  Are they being “guided from the corporate headquarters?”  It appears that MSNBC is joining the “anti-Trump” bandwagon.  Go figure!

Here’s what I expect from Matthews.  He will be lauding John Kasich as the “positive” alternative to Trump.  Kasich finally won a primary (in his own state, Ohio) – with the help of (by some estimates) about 25% of Ohio democrats who “crossed over” to vote for Kasich in an attempt to “stop Trump.”  Reality is setting in for the republican party.  Tonight on MSNBC Rachel Maddow referenced a recent PBS episode where they (PBS) interviewed a family of Trump supporters in North Carolina.  Whoever was reporting for PBS was obviously not “up” on the tattoos of the “White Supremacist” community as the Mom of this family had Neo-Nazi tattoos all over her body. (well, basically, all over her hands)  As I’ve been claiming here for years, the “Tea Party” has a dominant “streak” of racists at their core.  Our “liberal media” has been reluctant to call this out since the election of President Obama, but it’s simply not deniable.  And, these people are gravitating to Trump in droves.

Remember, Mr. Trump was a leader in the “birther” movement and has questioned President Obama’s right to be president since the day he won his first election in 2008.  However, this crap has been obvious since Jim DeMint stood on the capitol steps addressing an early “Tea Party” rally with a plethora of signs depicting President Obama in all kinds of different RACIST manners.  I watched some of this on TV and was shocked that the commentators avoided the subject of racism as they marveled at this new “populist” movement in America.  To me, it was the racists in America emerging from under the rocks where they were “hiding” until we elected a Black President.  To this day, I don’t understand why America’s “liberal media” can’t come to terms with this reality.  Trump is simply more OVERT than his two predecessors – John McCain (who referred to Obama as “that one” in one of the presidential debates – with NO blow-back)  and Mitt Romney who famously commented about the “47%” of Americans who “depend” on government – I’ll let you interpret the “code” – in republican inability to accept the reality in America that “White privilege” has basically “run its course” – and, a new day is on the horizon.

I’ve been saying for years that the present day republican party needs to be nothing more than a memory in our history books.  We have a country that has functioned for over two hundred years with a two party system.  We need a two party system.  It’s just that the republicans have evolved into surrogates of the corporate interests that Lewis Powell schemed about back in the early 1970’s and who have “bought” virtually every politician who caucuses with republicans in this nation.  (Yes, the democrats are not innocent here)  These people (republicans) clearly believe in the philosophy “the end justifies the means.”  They, for years, have aligned themselves, knowingly, with the racist segment of our population and now the reality is setting in.  They are up in arms that this “base” would choose an overt RACIST to represent their party in 2016 (as opposed to the “covert” racists of the recent past).  I have to surmise: Why would anyone be surprised?  I mean, Rush Limbaugh has been kind of a republican “standard bearer” as he’s been brainwashing millions of “ditto heads” every day since the 1980’s.  (They actually willingly adopt that moniker)

Charles Koch has been a long standing member of the John Birch Society (White Supremacists) and along with his brother they are responsible for the “Tea Party” and much of the money that is corrupting our political process.  I could go on and on, but I’ll end by saying once more, “the rooster is coming home to roost!”  I’m guessing there are many republicans, including my two good friends I mentioned above, who are grudgingly allowing this sad reality to settle in.  Republicans have a plan to gain a stranglehold on America’s government.  They want to eliminate as much government over-site on corporate interests as they can get away with.  Until Antonin Scalia’s death republicans had control of the Courts, the Congress, and the media.  All they need for their “permanent republican ‘majority'” is the White House.  With the help of the HORRIBLE Citizens United Supreme Court decision (the ultimate prize of the “Powell” memo scheme) gaining the White House theoretically would give republicans the control of our government that Madison and Jefferson were attempting to make nearly impossible.  Donald Trump may actually “make America great again” – it will just be in a way that no one could have imagined when he first uttered that message!  He may accomplish what I’ve been wanting for years, and that is the destruction of this version of the republican party!