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While the GOP suffers under the existential reality of its meandering Frankenstein Monster (AKA Donald Trump), conservative America must come to the reality its lives with a metastasized cancer born of its 1970s/1980s "southern strategy." The strategy has led to an evolution that finds large swaths of conservative social deviates who embrace white nationalism, anti-Muslim ideology, and the party of the American racist. Once Richard Nixon's Kevin Phillips and (to a much more effective degree) Ronald Reagan's Lee Atwater unleashed the dogs of "It is OK to exercise prejudice and bias". Sadly, while effective in ensuring votes with each General Election, the strategy has fed the current circus GOP campaign for the 2016 Presidential nomination.

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