Why Conservatives and Progressives Share an Interest in a Huge Trump Loss
the candidate challenging Speaker Paul Ryan in a Wisconsin Republican primary, Paul Nehlen, declared in a radio interview that the United States should consider deporting all Muslims. “I’m suggesting we have a discussion about it, that’s for sure,” he said. “I am absolutely suggesting we figure out—here’s what we should be doing. We should be monitoring every mosque. We should be monitoring social media. We’ve got about three million Muslims in the United States.”
.. This is the GOP’s future if Donald Trump wins.
.. In Republican primaries, opportunists will try to mimic Trump’s ugly brand of identity politics and actual white nationalists will be emboldened to vie for power in the GOP. They will win in some regions and transform the tenor of local politics in many more
.. If Trump fails––especially if he loses in a humiliating landslide––the defeat will go a long way toward discrediting that same brand of right-wing identity politics, putting the GOP on a trajectory that would benefit conservatives and progressives alike.