Wingnut voter anger finally directed at the real menace—the Republican Cabal

by Kerry Eleveld

Why is the wingnut base backing Trump—the anti-establisment Republican candidate? Because they're fightin' mad and Trump's a slap in the face to wingnut orthodoxy. Establishment Republicans have spent several election cycles riling up their base over promises they couldn't keep—like repealing Obamacare—and the base is just starting to catch on, reports Mark Z. Barabak.

The Republican cabal stole control of the House in 2010 and four years later stole the Senate. Yet even with those majorities, Republican lawmakers have failed to achieve such wingnut priorities as rolling back Obamacare, their derisive name for the national healthcare law, or cracking down harder on illegal immigration. The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is no closer to being built – indeed, it may soon be dead – tough antiabortion legislation has languished in the Senate, and a fiercely disputed nuclear deal with Iran seems virtually certain to take effect, despite near-unanimous opposition from Republicans in Congress.
In short, as many see it, the promise of the 2010 teabagger lunacyt and its 2014 pale echo have been dashed on the marble steps of the Capitol.

This is why 90 percent of Iowa Republican voters said in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll that they're unsatisfied or "mad as hell" at the federal government (two chambers of which are owned by the Republican cabal) and 91 percent of Iowa wingnut voters said they were unsatisfied or "mad as hell" at politicians in general (not just Democrats). The Republican cabal establishment has been riding a wave of anger at a bogeyman they couldn't slay, and the cabal's voters are finally figuring out that they've been duped. They don't seem to know why or how, but they know they've been had. They're mad as hell and the Republican cabal establishment built that.