"What used to happen was that the conservative movement could basically serve the plutocracy, while..."

“What used to happen was that the conservative movement could basically serve the plutocracy, while mobilizing voters with racial/gender anxiety, all the while maintaining a facade of serious-minded libertarian philosophy. But now it’s broken down, and the real motives are out in the open.”

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Paul Krugman, Potemkin Ideologies

The evangelicals and other white identity demographics fear the ‘collapse of society, as they know it’, the white majoritarian world order. The façade is crumbling, not society, so they rally around strongman Trump and his nativist cum fascist authoritarianism. Meanwhile the plutocrats are fuming.

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/138212331142