A New Kind of Nut

The Republican coalition of greedy assholes and racist evangelicals dates to the dawn of the Southern Strategy. Early on it was easy to assume the greed faction was rational--they would blow US up and destroy the middle class but not the entire society and themselves. But then it became believable--obvious to me--that the corporatists were so interested in SHORT TERM profits they might blow up everything in the longer run, a second stage of more serious irresponsibility and ruin.

They are getting so rich they think they can survive anything or don't care.

Enron, George Bush's favorite business, was the model for this. The corruption and exploitative principles were extended to the government and therefore the whole society, since the government is the Wyatt Earp in their Dodge City. Only the government can stop crooks and scoundrels from running everything. So, we have had periods of rational criminality and then totally reckless criminality. The resulting '08 crash caused a rejection of Bushism in the election of Obama.

Many people, including me, assumed this meant that we had peered into the abyss and denied the death wish. Hold on, religious conservatives had been waiting all these years for their turn, which has come with Trump. These are the nihilists. They are our Taliban, an American ISIS. The effects of the rule of the short term capitalists are becoming obvious, societal self-destruction. Evangelicals and religious fundamentalists welcome the death wish. They want an apocalypse.

Every mean, stupid, destructive thing Donald Trump does warms their hearts and fuels their drive for annihilation. The end of life as we have known it awaits us.