Igor Zimenkov

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Politics with a capital P: Trump's victory

Mitt Romney's political ascendancy is the first of five of the first five chapters of America's transition from a divided populace to a united majority.

For a long time, Republican politics has been dominated by an anti-tax, anti-big-business, anti-interventionist wing.
Mitt Romney
History has proven otherwise.

The President and his supporters were able to extend the GOP's now-unbroken dominance by appealing to the self-identified populist base on the one hand and the more traditional party establishment on the other, both of which also benefited from the President's former rival, Sarah Palin.

The other half of the establishment is still there, but there are signs that it is a smaller minority now than in the early- to mid-1980s when Ronald Reagan and his massive campaign staff brought down an opposition party that was headed by the notorious Alan Cranston.

For the moment, Republicans are winning hands down in the United States of America.

The difference between today's GOP and 1980's Goldwater Republicans (who were critical of the GOP's support for welfare and civil rights) is that today's GOP isn't going to let the electorate forget that they were part of the same anti-democratic, anti-American movement that they oppose today.

Democrats cannot win if Republicans remain what they are today.

Republicans, which include both business conservatives and free marketeers, have consistently steered the country to the right on foreign policy, domestic policy and our role in the world.

They are anti-war, anti-missile defense, anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism, and open borders.
That is true in the Republican Party as much as it is in the Libertarian Party and the Democrats.
They're not enough Republicans to win the presidency, and they certainly are not enough Democrats to win the election.