Brutkey

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The GOP has been overtly antidemocratic and always will be. Look, it's right there in the names and has been since the post-civil war period.
The Republic-ican party isn't democratically oriented. They explicitly believe that the United States' governence should be in the fashion of a republic. With it's legislators and president selected from the ranks of it's aristocracy.

As they see it, plurality, even voting in the sense we broadly participate in currently, none of that is part of the package. It's the moneyed aristocracy's party. You sir, being an un-moneyed, un-landed, un-cultured, and un-educated in the ways of power lout will always be at the sway of powerful men and are by your weak nature unfit for the privilege of governance. Look, my good man, I'll prove it to you. If truly you were worthy of the privilege you would realize what the identity politics, the race baiting, and wedge-politic issues are that we employ against you. Cheap tricks to fool the masses. Because as I have so generously pointed out, you are unworthy, you cannot see them for what they are. "You are your own proof of incompetence." And so, reasoning along these lines the GOP has waddled along for over a century. They do not mind much, participating in this "game" called democracy, because they know/believe power to be of another nature entire from what you and I do.

Problem is, a century of accelerationist capitalism and changing demographics have undercut the homogenous voting population upon which they played this logic. No longer are niaive white males the bulk of the voting demographic. This logic has proven brittle. So they are slowly loosing their shit. This neveau-riche My Pillow™™ clown is the verry evidence of their hysteria. 100 years ago some clod like him would never be given a seat at the table, now they have to offer up opportunities to the likes of him in exchange for ones willing to do their dirt work.

I'll leave you with the words of GOP strategist and architect of the southern strategy, Lee Atwater, from over half a century ago:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/tnamp/