Although Trump is an absolute spanner and he's in cahoots now with some people, like Bannon, with political views that neo-nazi types would nod in agreement with, I cant help thinking that the msm are just stamping their feet a bit here and refusing to take on board the economic system they prop up has been rejected. That's all they're arsed about, not minorities....their rights being potentially under threat is just a flag of convenience that they're using.
economic system???
sorry mate.... culture, i'll grant you. but we've been losing on economics since the 1970s in the US, and 80s in the UK. Democrats/Labour have only won elections by embracing right-wing economic policy. It was Bill Clinton, for example, who gutted welfare and eliminated financial regulations, helping cause the 2008 crash
The GOP old guard should be in and around the Trump presidency and throwing themselves on top of this hand grenade
this is already happening
https://www.ft.com/content/00ff8f82-a835-11e6-8b69-02899e8bd9d1
Jamie Dimon as treasury secretary? wow... not even Clinton would dare
"But for now, said analysts, Mr Dimon’s name may have an important signalling effect. It means that America’s next president is unafraid of reconnecting Washington and Wall Street."
Under Mr Trump, however, that could be changing. Consideration of the JPMorgan chief shows that, eight years on from the crisis, the period of bashing banks is drawing to a close.
Lobbyists welcomed the connection. “Folks with the relevant industry experience should not be excluded,” said Rob Nichols, head of the American Bankers Association, which bills itself as the voice of the nation’s $16tn banking industry. “In fact, those saying you shouldn’t have experience, that is misguided public policy.”
If Mr Dimon really is in the frame it marks a “seismic shift”, said Isaac Boltansky, an analyst at Compass Point in Washington. “We’ve gone from former Wall Street employees having the scarlet letter on their lapel to a wide-open consideration of resetting the regulatory regime.”
Republican elites are hoping that Trump can palliate the public by railing against commerce on sundays and women in pants, or whatever. they assume that the Republican base doesn't actually care about policy, and just wants to be worked up into a lather of social resentment, and, while it's distracted, they can procede to dismantle the state for good and for always. like Kansas, but for the the country as a whole.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-kansas-tea-party-disaster-20141023
but Trump is nothing if not unpredictable, so it's a bit of gamble. it remains to be seen how he'll react when the first real crisis hits his door. for now, i'm less concerned about the President than about the types of people he's emboldened.