The Republican ideology was seeded and grown from the “religiofication” of a group of people, making of them “true believers” in the cult of Reaganism. That is a process that seeks to unify the army of their followers, generating a spirit of self-delusion to transform the people, normally democratic, into a revolutionary party of super-patriots and anti-government zealots. Republican nationalism was born when Ronald Reagan became president, and grew out of his celebrity from his Hollywood voice and career, and a speech railing against government, and acts to bust unions. That religious fervor lay behind future acts for the deregulation of business, finance, industry, use of national forests and preserves, watchdog functions of health, environment, safety, and so on.
In this conception, Republicans are one type of people who have thoroughly adapted to one way of thinking and are incapable of adapting in the changed circumstances they now find themselves. Their adaptation precluded adaptability. Their beliefs are scripted, and their brains are wired by charismatic leaders, whose power and authority are based on their simplistic assertions.
They are supported by “true-believers” who too readily accept those ideas. The ideology of the leader and followers is the yardstick by which they measure all things. They are people who have lost their niche, and in their rigid denial of a changed state of affairs and of facts contrary to their ideas, they are attempting to cope by re-establishing a state in which their niche is restored to its former concordance with the background of their ideology, in this case, the military glory of their wars in th Middle East, their ideological heritage from Reagan and the apostle’s creed of no new taxes for sole purpose of the starvation of government.
Their characteristic reaction is ideologically reactionary. The roots of Republicanism lie in that one person’s ideas, around which has coagulated a clot of causes in our time. Our penalty is having to see the continuation of their struggles to maintain their old ideology in the face of a radically altered environment.
