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swirlie Does it matter Swirlie? Who has the power in that movement... have you been paying attention?
Because of the voting system, it's just better to organise and form coalitions. Which eventually leads you to two strong parties and groups that don't want to make the compromises that other ideologically motivated groups did to join the coalition. However, within every large coalition, there is always a dominant faction that takes the party towards elections.
Before the last presidential election, that strong faction was also a coalition of authoritarian figures. How I see it, the most dominant parts were: Christian Nationalists
(The coalition concerning the 2025 project from the Herritage foundation and imo the strongest faction), Racists
(the Stephen Miller Gang) and the Tech-Bro's
(Peter Thiel, Elon Musk types that delivered the VP). Those last guys, are already putting themselves on the background because they have the least overlap with the Christian-Nationalist faction.
All those low information voters:
- People that voted for the republican party, because they
(and the family they grew up in) have always done
- Undecided voters that made a last moment choice
Are just enablers to the larger project. They had 1 or 2 issues in mind when they voted, or were just stuck in a habbit because they became partisans. At the end of the day, they still voted for a project, that Charlie promoted.
That Christian Nationalist faction? It's been measured several times... it pretty big, depending on the time of measurements, you have numbers between 28-33 percent of the entire American poppulation.
(SOURCE: The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (2022) by Perry & Gorski And we also know from earlier studies, that one of the definiening features of the Republican party today, is authoritarianism
(SOURCE: Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (2009) by Hetherington & Weiler).
Trump's MAGA-Republican base however, are not far-right evangelical extremists, though further to the right than closer to the center.
That the majority of Trumps' base is closer to the center? ... NOTHING that I've read in the last 10 years backs up that idea. In fact, even in 2016-2020, center right figures were branded "RHINO" and got primaried/ousted by MAGA-loyalists. Those low information voters, that's the minority, that's the little push that is needed to beat the other party in close elections. That's why there are so many dogwhistles, because if Trumps' team was open, the NAZI soldiers wouldn't be faded out in the background in pictures like this:
In fact, Trump's base are comprised of un-employed, un-educated, White males who were born and raised in the USA, only 60% of whom have graduated high school, a group who have been marginalized in American society and thus form the minority of minority groups in their own country, who hold a social status below that of Black, college/university-educated American women if we want to talk about the pecking order of minorities in America.
... who are voting for a white-christian-nationalist program. There is no excuse after the attempted coup in 2020. There is 0 excuse Swirlie. All these people voted for that person, that tried to steal an election by force. They get no sympathy from me. To be a citizen, means to educate yourself on the issues and then vote for the best candidate. These people all failed the test.
