Clique Warfare

Projection is of course the dominant mode of thought amongst the GOP. Deep down they understand what they are and rather than go mad with guilt they project that knowledge onto their opponents.

So when the GOP is accusing progressives of 'class warfare' what they are really thinking about is the massive diversion of resources from the poor and middle class to the wealthiest of the wealthy that is at the core of modern GOP policy.

But even this analysis is faulty in that it asserts that the GOP works for the interest of all wealthy people which it does not. The first act of the Bush administration was to talk down the prospects for the economy and talk down the stock market in order to make the case for the Bush tax cut. That may have served the interests of the brothers Koch but it certainly didn't serve the interests of most wealthy people.

What the GOP is really about is preserving and furthering the interests of a tiny narrow clique made up of their family, friends and major investor-donors. The GOP is engaged in clique warfare, not class warfare. The base of the GOP is thus the clique whose interest the party serves plus the much wider group of people who live vicariously through them plus whatever rubes it can motivate through hate and fear mongering.