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Trump’s first 10 days in office confirm for me, beyond a doubt, the “Uniparty” theory that I’ve been operating under for basically the past decade or so now: that the Republicans are not an actual opposition party, they are just the tax cuts wing of the Democratic Party. We have effectively been living under single-party rule since at least 2000, if not dating back to George Bush Senior’s presidency in 1989.

Since Reagan, I don’t think we’ve had a true Republican President. Until now.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a Republican President do things that Republican voters want a President to do.

It’s worked like this: the Democratic Party controls the agenda of the federal government no matter what, and they only “let” Republicans win when the elites want to cut taxes. But that’s all the Republican Party can actually do.

Democrats’ whole thing is “tax the rich/corporations,” so they can’t do it themselves. And they want to, of course, because they exist to further enrich and empower the elite. So this is where the Republican Party serves it’s purpose: cut taxes on corporations. The Democratic Party can do just about everything else that it wants, except for cut taxes on the rich and the corporations.

This then allowed the Democrats to campaign against the Republicans and their tax cuts and position themselves as the party of the middle class, garnering popular support for their trojan horse agenda, whereby they promise to help the middle class but instead deliver things like mass immigration, DEI/wokeness while lining their pockets.

The Republican Party’s second function besides corporate tax breaks was to serve as an outlet for the people who didn’t agree with the Democratic Party platform. You have to give those people some sort of hope that they had a say in the matter, or else they would eventually take up arms and revolt.

The GOP was the pressure release valve of right wing discontent. It’s how the ruling class would channel that right-wing anger away from revolution and towards the ballot box. They know they can’t get everyone in the country to simply comply and support the Democratic Party, so their way of handling the non-compliant folks was to give them a fake political party that pretended to be on their side.

Republican politicians would pander to right-wing Americans and make them believe the Republican Party wanted what they wanted, and would make it a reality once they got in office.

But if you notice, the Republican Party has basically never—since Ronald Reagan—done anything that the average right-wing American actually wants done.

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