I was reading an article in The Atlantic about the Lost Cause a few days ago. In the article, one of the Confederate wannabes argued that the Civil War could not possibly have been about slavery, because hundreds of thousands of men who did not own slaves would have died fighting against their economic self-interest. Impossible, right?
Hardly. They were the ancestors of millions of white workers who voted for Trump against their apparent self-interest for culture war reasons. The GOP is completely dependent on those voters, and would perish without them.