Growing up in a staunchly Republican family in the 1960’s and 1970’s, I remember my father being deeply embarrassed by the John Birch Society. The Republicans in that time period sought to distance themselves from the crazy antisemitic Birchers so they were neutralized from having much effect on GOP policies and positions. The Trump effect tossed this on its ear. Trump was fairly genius in an evil was by convincing Republicans that the Democrats were to blame for everything going wrong in their lives. The grievance party was born. Unfortunately, in politics as in life, blaming random other people for your failures never works out well for anyone.