There is no mystery about where Trumpism comes from.
The roots are in the communist fantasies of Joseph McCarthy who painted Truman’s cabinet as a nest of Stalin’s buddies and the sophistry of Lee Atwater who, under Nixon, began the GOP’s turn to an alternative reality where the South was wronged by Yankee liberals.
This fascination with a right wing fantasy finally gelled with the invention of Fox News … a world where Hillary killed her law partner and Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Fox fans believe that global warming is a plot of scientists working with Marxist bankers, Obama is a Muslim, Hillary killed the diplomats in Benghazi, and American Christians are victims of an atheist plot.
Here is an objective view of the GOP. PolitiFact’s “Pants on Fire” depicts the GOP as more of a disease, alternative reality syndrome, then a political party.
