Quote Originally Posted by Powerboy View Post
They are now pandering to the most willfully ignorant, stupid and bigoted which has become essentially the Republican party. I don't even think Trump created that mentality. He just brought it out into the open. Hilary Clinton was wrong. She said half of Republicans today are your basic deplorables. She underestimated the numbers.

Hell, today, if Barry Goldwater or Dwight Eisenhower was still around, he'd be a "R.I.N.O."
Reagan and Nixon would be RINOs today, Ike would be a communist. Barry had racism that was so thinly veiled he was called out on it by other Repiblicans at the time - his platform was mocked as "Honesty, Integrity, Bigotry!" by his opponents, so he might be OK with the current set.