The world would be better off with wild elephants on the increase and Republicans were becoming extinct. It was so bad until LBJ passed those integration laws and the so-called Dixiecrats bolted and the Southern states all became Republicans, poisoning a different group this time and the Republicans pretty much forfeited the Right to be called The Party Of Lincoln.I

Furthermore, do you notice in all their rhetoric, Ike and Teddy are no longer cited by the GOP as part of their heritage.That Donald Trump's mentor was Roy Cohn must have One spinning in his grave.

So Trump seems to be using the Southern state governments of the years of Hoover and early FDR as a template for what he's trying to do.The little demo fascist fiefdoms if left alone and worked around in the old days, but nobody ever tried that style of governing on a national scale, though Huey Long came the closest before he was assassinated. Anything the Old South disliked is being gotten rid of by either passing laws gutting the Constitution of by having installed the worst choices to be in charge of every Cabinet or Agency post to eat out the guts of our Democracy by destroying it from the inside out.

Finally, as part of their utter disregard for the environment, the Republicans don't even care if their totem animal becomes endangered.