Why Trump will win in 2024.

[TaraJo]

The log cabin republicans are the party that constantly gets rejected by the rest of the republican party.  They get booed, rejected from conventions, their talking points ignored and homophobic policies are always embraced over them.  Seems like every couple of months I read another story about the log cabin republicans saying they can't support such-and-such popular republican politician or that their leaders are supporting the democratic candidate.  

Yeah, sure, some gays will still support republicans.  Uncle Ruckus supported the confederacy, too.  Doesn't change the fact that the mainstream branch of the party harshly rejects them.

The Republican Party is not all about evangelical Christianity; this is, of course, a truism.  I apologize for stating the obvious, but, it needs to be stated.  Religious conservatives are loud and obnoxious, and the RINOs put up with them because they will, largely, vote en bloc.  Ronald Reagan catered to them, and once in office, ditched them like a cheap political hooker.

I don't remember a single time in the last 30 years that the republican party hasn't voted en bloc with the religious right.  

For as long as I can remember, the christian conservatives have stood for two things: anti-LGBT rights and anti-abortion.  There are a few fringe issues, most of which are local or side-burner issues, things like creationism in schools or posting the ten commandments on courthouses.  But those two are the big ones.  The closest I've seen to a republican acting against those interests was on August 9, 2001 when George W Bush put out a bill that allowed stem cell research to continue with already existing stem cell lines but wouldn't allow new lines.  Other than that, every chance they got, it was peck away at abortion rights, piece by piece, and screw over gay people every chance you get.  

Now transgender rights are in their crosshairs.  Sure, once in a while you'll get a voice like Blaire White or Kaitlyn Jenner who speaks up for us but they're regularly ignored by the people with actual political power.  Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, Donald Trump.... none of them has ever taken a stance on a transgender rights issue that wasn't specifically hostile to trans people.  Ditto for race issues and hostility to black people.  They talk like religious freedom is important to them, but every time they have the opportunity to screw over Muslim people, they're on board for it.


Reagan and Trump didn't pay lip service to the religious reich, but they certainly governed on their behalf.  Appointing justices like Amy Coney Barret or Antonin Scalia, refusing to provide funding to AIDS research or allow transgender people in the military and, yeah, it certainly seems like they obeyed their masters on the pulpit.  See, they don't care if you're a serial adulterer conman, and they don't care if you use their talking points in speeches or rallies or press briefings, the conservative christians will put up with any crazy thing you do as long as you govern the way they want.  You could snort cocain off a satan-worshipping, gay, male, prostitutes dick and they'd still support you as long as you make it harder to get an abortion.

Yeah, I guess you could say they don't give unwavering support to the religious right, as long as you ignore how they actually govern.