With Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee for the U.S. prominent Republicans and Conservatives have quickly begun to denounce him and his vulgarity. They air their discomfort and disagreement with his stances as if they are defending a moral high ground. They say he’s not a true Conservative or representative of the Republican Party.
But how could he not be a representative of the Republican party?
It is not as if he was beamed down by some alien force into this nomination. Trump is very much a part of the Republican Party. Trump is the next true heir of the Conservative movement, similar to the poster boy of the American Conservative movement, Ronald Reagan.
The Republican Party for the past 60 years has been sticking to the southern strategy and now its returns are diminished. Republicans have used coded language to explain or manufacture the country’s problems and now that code of language is not enough. The Republican base has followed the content of the coded language to its logical conclusion. The usual tropes of lower taxes and less regulation is not enough anymore. Donald Trump blows right past the coded language and only reads the subtext of passed Republican talking points.
Illegal immigration is not the issue; the boogie man of the Mexican or Arab male that is going to take over the culture or harm your white daughter is what speaks to them. Trump goes out and says Mexicans are rapists. This falls not far from Republican dogma.
George W. Bush, another Trump critic, said that Trump is too vulgar, racist and stupid. That does not fall far from the tree that Trump fell from.
In his 2000 campaign against McCain, his team spread the rumor that McCain fathered an illegitimate black child knowing that the south would respond very negatively to that.
When interviewed on CNN, Trump was being pushed about his stance on abortion rights. The Republican Party’s stance has always been that abortion should be illegal, but when Trump said women should face a sentence for having an abortion the media and Americans were appalled. Trump simply read aloud the subtext to the previously professed stances of other Republicans.
What else would be the logical conclusion to the continuously shouted belief that abortion is murder?
If they believe abortion is murder why would they not advocate for a prison sentence?
It’s murder, right?
Trump is not a unique evil, nor an exception in the Republican Party. He is the party.
Behind all the repeated party lines and milquetoast politicians are these ideas that Trump has been proudly barking across the country.
Republican elites know they cannot convince Americans to support them on the merits of less regulation and lower taxes on multibillion dollar corporations, so they make great use of fear. Fear of losing the material comfort that its base holds whether it be the comfort of being a male in a patriarchal society, white supremacy in a country with a rapidly changing demographics or enforcing the heteronormative view in all aspects of life. 
