Want to Vote for a Racist? There’s One Running on the GOP Line.

From the time that FDR entered the White House in 1933 until Donald Trump announced his first Presidential campaign in 2015, the two national parties defined their domestic agendas based on the role of the federal government in maintaining stable economic affairs.

The Democrats promoted the idea that government should intervene directly in the economy either by spending on programs like infrastructure and public health or giving cash directly to financially-impacted individuals through unemployment compensation or other direct cash grants.

The Republicans, on the other hand, believed that the government should let individuals decide how best to subsidize the economy by cutting taxes which would give wage earners more of what they earned and could then be used to pay for whatever they felt they could need and use.

Incidentally, although these two strategies for preventing another catastrophe like the Great Depression never attracted any research to determine whether one approach actually worked better than the other, both narratives were cornerstones of the political outlooks of both national parties for ninety years.

Then along comes Donald Trump who jettisons the GOP’s fundamental approach to governing and replaces it with an appeal for votes and political…