Iowa Is A Wake Up Call For America

With Donald Trump’s dominant victory in Iowa, Republicans and Democrats are going to have to come to terms with some very unpleasant facts.

by Ben

At the beginning of 2016, the GOP was a hard right political party that existed primarily to enrich millionaires and billionaires. It was broadly, but not endemically racist, and was mostly controlled mostly by establishment figures and party apparatchiks. There had been a half hearted attempt at ethno-nationalism with Sarah Palin’s “hockey mom” m…