Trump Is the Poison His Party Concocted

[ashling]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/opinion/trump-is-the-poison-his-party-concocted.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

The adults patrolling the playpen of Republican politics are appalled that we’ve become a society where it’s O.K. to make fun of veterans, to call anyone who isn’t rich a loser, to cast an entire group of newly arrived strivers as rapists and shiftless criminals.

Somewhere, we crossed a line — from our mothers’ modesty to strutting braggadocio, from dutiful decorum to smashing all the china in the room, from respecting a base set of facts to a trumpeting of willful ignorance.

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Trump is a byproduct of all the toxic elements Republicans have thrown into their brew over the last decade or so — from birtherism to race-based hatred of immigrants, from nihilists who shut down government to elected officials who shout “You lie!” at their commander in chief.


It was fine when all this crossing-of-the-line was directed at President Obama or other Democrats. But now that the ugliness is intramural, Trump has forced party leaders to decry something they have not only tolerated, but encouraged.

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That first line ...

I seriously question whether there are any "adults" in the party



I think their situation


is comparable to this:




(without the nipple, of course)


that's all that is left

[hifiguy]

1. Trump is the inevitable end product

Of what the 'pigs have been doing for the last 40 years. They built the Frankenstein monster and now it's tearing the castle down on top of them by openly saying what they all truly believe. Karmic justice.

[pampango]

2. "... from respecting a base set of facts to a trumpeting of willful ignorance ..."

They say he’s trashing the Republic brand. They say he’s “stirring up the crazies,” in the words of Senator John McCain. But Trump is the brand, to a sizable degree. And the crazies have long flourished in the Republican media wing, where any amount of gaseous buffoonery goes unchallenged.

The racism toward Mexicans that Trump has stirred up has been swooshing around the basement of the Republican Party for some time. Representative Steve King of Iowa did Trump one better in 2013 when he said undocumented immigrants had “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”

Did this make King a pariah? Not judging by the number of presidential candidates who showed up at his Iowa Freedom Summit in January, there to curry his favor. Among them was Rick Perry, the former Texas governor. This week Perry called Trumpism “a toxic mix of demagogy, meanspiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if followed.”

All of this overshadowed the entry into the race of Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a sensible conservative who could beat Hillary Clinton. But he won’t get any traction until Republicans destroy Donald Trump and the vulgar, nativist element in their party that they nurtured — until it became a monster.

You reap what you sow.

[libodem]

3. Venomous poison

Check out this story:

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/trump-caught-red-handed-running-fake-university-scam-stealing-millions-from-students/