Racial and Cultural Resentment has Replaced the Fiscally Conservative Ethos of the GOP.
After leveling Carthage in the Third Punic War, Roman army generals ordered that the city’s fields be sown with salt so that they’d lie fallow for years. Donald Trump’s nomination is doing roughly the same thing to the republican party: destroying any chance for growth it once had and leaving the GOP to wither and die under Trump.
Is that what we’re witnessing here? The end of something, or the beginning of something...
Over the past few decades, the GOP has remained largely white, less educated and older. While the numbers of minorities in the country soared, college attainment rose and the millennial generation came of age politically. The republican party has transformed for a party base of fiscally conservative individuals, to an Evangelicals and White Nationalist based ideology.
The republican party's values use to be — prosperity, social order, and patriotism. Not Jesus and supremacy. Political leaders should strive to be something greater than the human beings they’re comprised of; to enshrine the values and ideologies of all.
As the country has diversified, the republican party has remained monochromatic, has grayed, and rather than allowing some give on shifting cultural norms, has become an unbending oak of a preconceived ideological purity.