By A. Shaw
The GOP is splitting and the split pieces of the party are in turn splitting.
Four major factions seem to have emerged.
(1) The GOP establishment faction, consisting of
officeholders
major contributors,
political consultants,
party bureaucracy
Donald Trump is the boss of the Establishment.
(2) tea bag faction
Ted Cruz is the main leader of the tea bags.
After Trump humiliated Cruz in the primaries, a lot of tea bags defected to Trump.
Officeholders who are tea bags play dual roles — both tea bag and officeholder.
Before the rise of Trump, tea bags were widely regarded as the most reactionary or, if you prefer, the most conservative faction in the GOP.
The influence of the tea bags rests in large part on the tea bag capability to turn out a large number of individuals highly trained in campaign management. Ordinary tea bags are often the equals of political consultants connected to the GOP establishment.
(3) Trump faction
 
This faction is a personality cult based on Trump.
Trump has won over supporters from the three other factions.
The Trump faction is zealous but unorganized and untrained. It rides the personality of Trump.
(4) Alt-Right faction
On Aug. 25, 2016, Hillary Clinton said this about Trump:
“He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.”
This “radical fringe” calls itself Alt-Right and it boasts that it is super-reactionary.
Alt-Right doesn’t have absolute control over the GOP because there are still representatives of the old establishment hanging around.
But the Alt-Right wallows in its relative control of the GOP.
In other words, lunatics and swine virtually control the GOP.  The old establishment in the GOP didn’t put up a fight.
Stephen Bannon is widely recognized as Alt-Right’s top leader.
Trump appointed Bannon to the post of “special advisor to the president.”
Alt-Right insists that it is far more reactionary, conservative, and lunatic than either the GOP establishment, tea bags, or  Trump faction.
Alt-Right has digested the whole body of reactionary propaganda, but it gives certain propaganda special emphasis.
Alt-Right singles out:
(1) Hate in general
(2) Racism
(3) Sexism
Alt-Right reactionaries hate with extreme intensity blacks, Latinos, and Jews.
These reactionaries hate women who are not docile to men.