They Are Locked In A Prison Of Their Own Devise

The leaders are idiots, & the Republican masses minority are morons:

Republicans Have a Muslim Problem Problem

They’re caught in a bigotry trap of their own making.

It didn’t work—at least, not this year. Partly because it’s a little hard to sell voters on putting the same people back in charge when everything’s going down the drain. But also because the number of voters energized about supposedly threatening minorities just wasn’t sufficient to withstand the blue wave.

But there were some voters with whom all the fearmongering about Muslims specifically really sank in. Some of this has already popped up in focus groups this year about Abdul El-Sayed and even Vivek Ramaswamy1. Zohran Mamdani is occasionally also in the mix, natch. Islamophobia is now a major part of the Republican Triangle of Doom—the voters have heard it from the politicians (like Greg Abbott) and right-wing media figures, so now they’re going to demand to hear more and more of it. It’s going to make it incredibly difficult for the GOP to rebuild: They can either play into the bigotry and alienate people who would rather hear about things like the cost of living, or they can abandon the bigotry and thereby ignore one of their base’s growing concerns.

Wotta laff: They made you morons, & now they're stuck w/ you. The schaden freudes itself.

From the semi-wised-up at The Bulwark.