The Republican Party Demons In 2016

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Over the past few weeks, the GOP presidential campaign has been fixated on comments Donald Trump made, in which the candidate called Mexican immigrants coming illegally across the border "rapists." On Capitol Hill, Republicans have turned their attention towards defunding Planned Parenthood after controversial, edited videos emerged on the group's practices of donating fetal tissue. Elsewhere, GOP lawmakers are pushing to roll back Wall Street reform and, for the fourth straight national election, repeal Obamacare.

And that’s all to say nothing of the current Topic A in the national Republican discourse: whether it was appropriate for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) to invoke Hitler and the Holocaust in characterizing President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

National Republican officials and strategists, hopeful that the summer of 2015 would help set the stage for the retaking of the White House for the first time in eight years, are now fretting about squandered opportunities.

“Comments from many different candidates -- some more serious than others -- have become a distraction in this race, and that’s a problem,” said Brian Donahue, a currently unaligned GOP strategist who has been in talks with several campaigns. “These are not serious issues. These are flippant comments, particularly those expressed by Mike Huckabee, and they don’t reflect what the majority of the party establishment or the grassroots thinks or is concerned about.”

The prevailing sentiment within the party, at this early juncture at least, is that the silly season of the campaign will turn. History shows that the Donald Trumps of campaigns fade in time (though previous incarnations haven’t had 10-figure personal bank accounts from which to draw)

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The article fails to understand that the average GOP voter agrees and identifies with Donald Trump. They think Latinos are rapists etc. etc. etc.

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1. A clown car trying to find a place to blow up.

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2. To me, Trump typifies what many republicans like! I don't think he's going away and he has $$$$$'s

to promote himself which IMO is really freaking out TPTB of the republican party. Basically, they're in a quandary because Trump is telling them to F off. I love watching the republican establishment being challenged this way. I'm not a Trump fan, but I love the way he's telling the R establishment to fuck off.