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In recent years the GOP has been a coalition of greedy libertarians who hate regulation; Nazi-adjacent, racist, anti-immigrant bigots; extreme social conservatives with weird gender issues who love regulation if it pertains to women, trans people and bathrooms; and Christian nationalists. Their areas of concerns overlap enough that they lined up behind Trump, but sooner or later their issues were bound to clash. Eloon started throwing so much money at Trump that he effectively owns him already, and once he and the other billionaire tech bros had Trump's ear, the coalition started to crack. I didn't think this would happen until the mass deportations began and eggs got really expensive, but Eloon has jump-started the process.
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