The Khan fight highlights a huge GOP problem: No one knows how low Trump can go

[brooklynite]

Washington Post:

Donald Trump’s continuing war with the Khan family — which Trump inexplicably continued to keep in the news this morning with a series of new tweets — raises the specter of a brutal trap for Republicans.

It’s this: If individual Republicans don’t break off their support for Trump’s candidacy now — by, say, withdrawing their endorsements — they run the risk of having no choice but to do so after Trump sinks even further into wretchedness and depravity, to a point of true no return. (Presumably there is such a point.) At that juncture, their move will look unprincipled and desperate, leaving them stained — perhaps irrevocably — with their previous willingness to stick by him during much of his descent, and depriving their break with him of whatever moral force it might have had if done earlier.

As some Republicans are already remarking, Trump’s battle with the Khan family makes it harder and harder to avoid acknowledging the possibility that we really have no idea how low Trump will sink. After Khizr Khan, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq, criticized Trump from the stage of the Democratic convention last week, Trump responded by asking why his wife had stood by silently, unleashing a torrent of criticism from lawmakers in both parties and setting the stage for another round of media appearance by the Khans, in which they brutally tore into Trump’s lack of empathy and temperamental unfitness for the presidency.

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“Trump is inevitably going to get worse, not better, as his poll numbers get worse,” Tim Miller, a former adviser to Jeb Bush and a frequent Trump critic, told me this morning. “When he’s being criticized and his back is against the wall, he’s going to act out and become more extreme and despicable. Every time we think he’s gone as low as he’s going to go, he manages to sink even lower. There is no argument for waiting until he behaves better.”

[jdwhite0726]

1. Matter of Time

It's just a matter of time when DT completely becomes unhinged and details his campaign. He cannot control his urge to filter his responses to any slight or insult.

The Khan fiasco is proof that DT has no impulse control or can empathize with those families who have sacrificed everything for this country.

DT will say or do something even lower the Khan fiasco and will cement his doom for President.

JD White
Orlando, FL.

[Hortensis]

2. It's already happened -- he's destroyed his chance to win.

The last straws have hit the pile, and the "very thoughtful people" are discussing Trump's personality disorder and "mental illness" on screen, journalists the same in print. It's all but over.

Except perhaps for witnessing just how low Trump can still go. But arguing over just which shocker was the lowest will be postmortem entertainment.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. For Democrats, he's definitely the Gift that Keeps on Giving.

For republicans, he's that big pimple on the end of their nose that shows up just before the big job interview.

And the neat thing is that the party spinmeisters don't even have time to clean up his last hairball before he coughs up a NEW one.