{"id":3034,"date":"2015-09-05T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T22:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2015-09-06T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T00:15:48","slug":"trump-where-the-gop-has-been-heading-all-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/trump-where-the-gop-has-been-heading-all-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Where the GOP Has Been Heading All This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump. \u00a0The GOP so richly deserves him. \u00a0There&#8217;s lots of good stuff being written about him and what his popularity in some circles means, more every day. \u00a0I liked\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2015\/sep\/24\/trump\/\">this NYRB piece by Michael Tomasky<\/a>. \u00a0Take a few minutes to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2015\/sep\/24\/trump\/\">the whole piece<\/a>, but here&#8217;s a crucial point:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_3035\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3035\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/trump-where-the-gop-has-been-heading-all-this-time\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85.jpg?fit=250%2C362&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"250,362\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85.jpg?fit=250%2C362&amp;ssl=1\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3035\" class=\"wp-image-3035 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85-207x300.jpg?resize=207%2C300\" alt=\"trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Trump; drawing by James Ferguson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is Trump not the logical culmination of where Republican politics have been headed for many years now, going back to the Clinton and Bush presidencies, but especially during the tenure of Barack Obama? Two qualities more than any others have driven conservatism in our time. The first is cultural and racial resentment, felt by the mostly older and very white population the GOP increasingly represents\u2014resentment against a fast-changing, more openly sexual America, as well as against dark-skinned immigrants, and White House occupants, and gay people and political correctness and the \u201cmoocher class\u201d and all the rest. The second is what we might call spectacle\u2014the unrelenting push toward a rhetorical style ever more gladiatorial and ever more outraged (and outrageous), driven initially by talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and now reproduced on websites, podcasts, and Twitter feeds too numerous to mention. There is a strong tendency, perfected over the years by Fox News, to cover and discuss domestic politics as a combination of war, sport, and entertainment all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Trump is conservative resentment and spectacle made flesh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- sktbuilder starter --><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/plugins\/skt-builder\/sktbuilder\/sktbuilder-frontend-starter.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/plugins\/skt-builder\/sktbuilder-wordpress-driver.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var starter = new SktbuilderStarter({\"mode\": \"prod\", \"skip\":[\"jquery\",\"underscore\",\"backbone\"],\"sktbuilderUrl\": \"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/plugins\/skt-builder\/sktbuilder\/\", \"driver\": new SktbuilderWordpressDriver({\"ajaxUrl\": \"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\", \"iframeUrl\": \"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/trump-where-the-gop-has-been-heading-all-this-time\/?sktbuilder=true\", \"pageId\": 3034,  \"nonce\": \"c10bdfdd4c\", \"pages\": [{\"title\":\"NTD Officers\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/napervilledemocrats.org\\\/ntdo\\\/wp-admin\\\/post.php?post=475&action=sktbuilder\"},{\"title\":\"2022 Election\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/napervilledemocrats.org\\\/ntdo\\\/wp-admin\\\/post.php?post=11490&action=sktbuilder\"}], \"page\": \"Trump: Where the GOP Has Been Heading All This Time\" }) });<\/script><!-- end sktbuilder starter -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump. \u00a0The GOP so richly deserves him. \u00a0There&#8217;s lots of good stuff being written about him and what his popularity in some circles means, more every day. \u00a0I liked\u00a0this NYRB<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/trump-where-the-gop-has-been-heading-all-this-time\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,93,171],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-extremist-gop-2","tag-nyrb","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump_donald-092415_jpg_250x1363_q85.jpg?fit=250%2C362&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzCg-MW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}