Saturday, April 30, 2016

Nihilists

Salon: Stop calling them conservatives! The new GOP of Trump & Cruz is the party of nihilism - Even as unattractive a label as "conservative" is too good for the extremism of today's leading Republicans by Conor Lynch

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

I call them Radical Reactionaries. If left to their own devices we'd end up back in the Middle ages.

Jim Sande said...

I suspect that a large part of their 'ideology' is pretty much nothing, nada, there isn't any. Other than some very over the top blunt one size fits all hammer solutions, there's not any depth or historic understanding or planning of any kind. Trump - build a wall. Well that's great but then what. Or Trump - nuke ISIS. Same thing, then what. Overall it's very shallow and essentially violent thinking, not even thinking really, it's about reacting. They are reactionaries in the truest sense.