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Why Trump is Doomed (It's Not the Nazi Thing)

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Yet they have a friend in this president.

Let's be clear: there isn't much ideological daylight between "mainstream" Republicanism and little-pig-eyed Nazism. Nazism is militarily expansionist; so is U.S. foreign policy (which, to be fair, is equally supported by Democrats). Nazism centers around a dynamic cult of the Leader; Republicans rally around their president no matter what outlandish crap gets vomited out by his mouth. Nazism relies on scapegoating and harkens to a mythic past when the nation was united by a common cause and everyone (everyone who matters) was happier and more prosperous -- c.f. "Make America Great Again" and Republicans' baseless claims that illegal immigrants are criminals and rapists.

So Trump's defense of Nazis and Klansmen isn't a radical departure from the GOP political norm. Where he's gone off the rails by American standards is a question of style.

Trump's manner -- as Senator Bob Corker aptly describes it, his lack of "steadiness" and "competence" -- is why he almost certainly will not complete his term.

Racism isn't the issue -- Republicanism is racist. It's a matter of decorum.

Trump is too tacky and high-strung and unpredictable for the business class. America's ruling elites like their racism served up quietly in a well-tailored suit, under a tight helmet of elder-statesman hair, delivered calmly and slowly, so bland that no one pays attention.

This is where Mike Pence comes in.

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Ted Rall, a political cartoonist, is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, raised in Kettering, Ohio and graduated from Fairmont West High School in 1981. His first cartoons were published (more...)
 

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