Republicans are now blaming Barack Obama for Donald Trump. Seriously.

[Cali_Democrat]

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Republicans watching in dismay as Donald Trump continues to lead their presidential primary contest have almost given up trying to come up with a plan to stop him, with the spreading realization that he'll rise or fall and there's little they can do to affect that outcome. But if you can't change things, at least you can explain them, which leads to the pressing question: Whose fault is this?

Liberals have their answer. Trump, they say, is the culmination of the last seven years of Republican politics, or maybe even the last 50 years. Faced with an angry Tea Party base, the party's leadership encouraged that anger, yet couldn't deliver on any of the substantive promises they made. They told their voters to hate Washington, despise Barack Obama, and fear immigrants — and this is what they got. Go even farther back and you can find Trump's roots in the "Southern Strategy" that worked so well for so long, where Republicans fed working-class whites a diet of racial resentment to get them to sign on with an agenda that served the interests of the wealthy.

As you might imagine, this story isn't particularly appealing to conservatives. So they have a different answer, one which is now gaining increasing currency on the right. Who's to blame for Donald Trump? Why the same man who's to blame for everything that goes wrong in America: Barack Obama.

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Writing in the National Review, Victor Davis Hanson insists that Trump's rise is a response to Barack Obama's unserious leadership, taking selfies and making Final Four picks while the world burns. "It is no accident that President Obama's America has given rise to Donald Trump," writes Ben Domenech. "It is an America that is more tribalist, where people feel more racially and religiously divided; more politically correct, where people feel less free to speak their minds; and it is an America where trust in the nation’s elites, whose skills are credentialed but unproven, are at historic lows." The Wall Street Journal editorial page intoned, "President Obama's insistent failure to confront the realities of global jihad has produced its opposite in Donald Trump's unfiltered nationalist id. This is a reminder of how much damage a misguided American president can do to the country's political culture."

Read more:

http://theweek.com/articles/593880/republicans-are-now-blaming-barack-obama-donald-trump-seriously

[doc03]

1. Well I kind of agree with them on that one. They are so deranged at

the thought of a black man occupying the Whitehouse it created a need for a fascist.

[LiberalArkie]

3. Yep.

[Jester Messiah]

2. "Look what you made me do!"

Nothing's ever their own fault, you know.

[hibbing]

4. denial

Face it, a large percentage of your party are racists. I find it odd they all act so surprised when they all have been fostering this with their not so coded language for decades.


Peace

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. So I guess blaming Hillary and Bill Clinton hasn't worked.

Not surprised that Republicans are incapable of taking responsibility for their own screw ups.

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. So did one of the "Pillars of DU" ...

Funny how we're seeing more and more overlap/commonality of arguments, these days