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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

They didn't intend for that contingent to actually drive, but they paved the path and all :shocked Pikachu: when he grabbed the wheel.

Yeah, more or less. I don't think the Republican elites ever disagreed with the racist resentment politics they'd been peddling, but they intended them to be a means to enact tax breaks for the wealthy and wage wars. They never expected the base to elect someone who made racism the focus.

I still hold that he gets absolutely nowhere without Putin's help.

Not sure I agree. Russian interference certainly helped, but the economic conditions in the country are ripe for fascism. He might have won without foriegn interference, and if he didn't, we might be facing a more popular, more competent fascist right now.