![]() ![]() On the other extreme are the never-Trumpers. They are solidly behind Trump and will rationalize anything he says or does in the name of their vindictive God. They are dominated by evangelical Christians, the same people who justified slavery and Jim Crow in religious terms. They resented immigrants and minorities, feeling that their lives were threatened by outside forces. Many quietly harbored the views he said out loud. The largest are those who have fallen in behind Trump. The Republican Party of 2015 has devolved into three groups. The fact that it has largely gone unchecked is the result of a failure of leadership and an irresponsible right-wing media ecosystem. The strain of anti-democratic authoritarianism that dominates the party has always been in the country’s political bloodstream, but it hasn’t been this dominant in one party in decades, maybe since before the Civil War. The transition of the GOP from Reagan conservativism to reactionary populism happened disturbingly quickly. This time, they’ll try to look like authoritarian blowhards, too. Back in 2016, Trump’s primary opponents tried to look like serious people in contrast to the carnival barker who called people silly names. ![]() This year, though, candidates will emulate Trump instead of trying to differentiate themselves. A host of lesser candidates joins the race and Trump consolidates his plurality. They are loyal to the Republican Party.Īs the GOP presidential field unfolds, it looks like a repeat of 2016. Its members and leaders are no longer loyal to the country. It’s a remarkable transformation of a conventional political party into an authoritarian one. After everything we know about him, the GOP leadership will support him if he gets the nomination. PRI party leader Alejandro Moreno said Monday that speculation about the PRI’s demise was wrong and that the party would survive, but as part of a broad opposition coalition of left, right and center groups that will seek to field an alliance candidate in the presidential elections a year from now.After everything we know about Donald Trump–the sexual abuse, January 6, the destructions of norms, the lying, the threats–he’s still the frontrunner for the GOP nomination for president. But the PRI is now a shadow of the old days when it ruled Mexico with a combination of hand-out programs and corruption. The PRI managed to hold on to the governorship of the sparsely populated northern border state of Coahuila, and governs the neighboring state of Durango in coalition with other opposition parties. The result was a new low for the PRI, which held Mexico’s presidency uninterrupted for 71 years until losing power in 2000 elections the party had governed the State of Mexico and its 17 million inhabitants for 94 years until its loss Sunday. With over 99% of precincts counted in a preliminary report, electoral authorities said Monday that Morena’s Delfina Gómez won 52.7% of votes in the State of Mexico - which surrounds Mexico City on three sides - to 44.3% for the PRI’s Alejandra del Moral.ĭel Moral later gave a concession speech acknowledging her defeat. MEXICO CITY (AP) - The ruling party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the governorship of the country’s most populous state, dealing a life-threatening blow to the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Part y - or PRI - which had governed the State of Mexico without interruption for nearly a century.
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