For Republicans, bigotry is the new normal

[sufrommich]

THE REPUBLICAN Party, once small government’s champion, is now the party that breeds presidential contenders who would monitor schools and mosques, shut down parts of the Internet and exclude certain immigrants for no reason beyond the faith they profess. In the GOP debate Tuesday, those ideas — along with can-you-top-this rhetorical barrages aimed at illegal immigrants and Syrian refugees — received a generally polite reception, with constitutional, legal and practical questions contemptuously dismissed as “political correctness.”

True, the extremism that now passes for mainstream Republican thought, robbed of its shock value by the unfiltered ravings of Donald Trump, was punctured from time to time with expressions of dismay, incredulity and doubt.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) skewered Mr. Trump’s plans for the United States to ban all Muslim immigrants or murder the families of terrorists, and Mr. Paul, along with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, rightly dismissed Mr. Trump’s blithe suggestion that he could somehow censor the Internet in parts of the world where jihadist sentiment runs deep.

By and large, though, these ludicrous proposals went unremarked on by the Republican contestants, for whom bigotry, hatred and magical thinking are the new normal.



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[2naSalit]

1. Yes, their

"Coming out" party is all the rage these days.

We are a nation in deeeep trouble.

[sufrommich]

2. It's "all the rage" with angry white racist people who no

longer have the numbers to win national elections.

[2naSalit]

3. Indeed...

that would be the plus side of the whole election debacle at this point.

[Blue_Adept]

4. And they will go down thrashing loudly

It won't be the death knell of the Republican party, but it's a big sign of the changing nature of the country that now, thanks to modern communications, moves faster than ever. And a good segment of that particular grouping of individuals handles that very poorly.

[sufrommich]

5. I agree,their reaction to losing power will get

much uglier,the republican party has a big decision to make,stick with their base or win elections in the future.

[Blue_Adept]

6. Yep. It's a big, festering bandaid that's bonded to the skin

And it won't heal without ripping that away, taking the pain of loss for awhile, and rebuilding.

[Iliyah]

7. Whites losing the majority in the USA, and a Black President, have sent them

over the top.