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This horror story began like 50 years ago to the 1960's....
Working class whites especially in the south felt betrayed by LBJ and his signing civil rights legislation. Johnson had been a good old boy segregationist himself since the 1930's but in 1964 he envisioned this great society and felt that civil rights was a part of the evolutionary process. The south never forgave him, seeing their priviledge and the world as they knew it disappearing.
Enter the GOP who saw the time as ripe to peel off working class voters away from the Democrats.
For the next few decades the GOP, always viewed as the party of the corporate elite and 1% was constantly having to do a balancing act between placating these new voters (religious right, working class whites, and yes, racists) and promote their "corporate elitist agenda".
Now with all the laws permitting abortion, women's rights, LGBT rights, and yes civil rights...the fridge elements began to panic. Hell, look at the Oval Office the President is a bi racial man with an Arabic middle name.
Instead of denouncing the silly disrespect and the screaming that Obama is not American, the GOP let these idiots have their voice. Hell they even screamed beside them (knowing goddamn well that President Obama is 100% legit)...Add all the gridlock and frustration with congress they turn to an outsider: Donald Trump.
A Trump Presidency is a frightening thought (I doubt he has a chance of winning)
What scares me is what comes after this fiasco. These fringe elements of the GOP may put up an ugly woman hating, racist asshole in the next elections. Not some show man like Trump but someone who knows how to navigate the political waters...that's terrifying.
Primarily, I think he has the media to thank for his rise. The insane amount of free publicity they've given him, at the expense of the supposed fair time regulations, has been staggering. He's been on TV almost nonstop since last June, despite the fact that it's been clear from the beginning that he's unfit for the office of president. Despite whatever opinions are out there about his 16 contenders, I think it's fair to say that most of them at least pass some kind of basic qualification for fitness to be president. I couldn't see any of his 16 contenders making an outright mockery of both the process and, potentially, the office then Trump has and stands to do.
He also got lucky that there was such a large field. A smaller initial field, I think, would have ended a Trump candidacy early on in the process. He got the chance to turn the initial debates into a mudslinging contest, as those debates that featured 10 candidates resulted in candidates having to try to upstage Trump in order to get attention rather than attacking him on policy. A smaller initial field, as we saw with the Democrats, could have made the debates focused on policy much early on, where Trump would have stumbled. He performed poorly at the later debates, which were more policy-based, and had the early debates resembled those, a Trump candidacy could have been over with fairly early on.
And yes, I noticed, Beatles, that Trump threw people holding copies of the Constitution out of his rally. How well will that play with GOP leaders. Hmmm. You really could not make this up, this entire election year.
and what is for this election a very minor incident: "Love trumps hate" .... but not here:
I keep feeling positivity and warmth when I hear those two chaps :-).
But more importantly, how are Hillary's hotels faring?
Don;t know about Hillary, but Bill's Motel 6 tab hit a grand last week. Dat ol' dawg.
Donald Trump has a lot in common with Jean-Marie Le Pen. If anything that he hijacked the Republican Party is just as disturbing as the FN popularity right now.
Personally, I think Trump's mutant tribble-coif looks tres disturbing. That is what they're showing on the cover, is it not?
He was never serious about running and never expected to get this far but his ego and general flair for the showman will not let him submit to the RNC or their advice. May he continue to burn and let there be a big landslide come November as he loses.
The GOP has lost the Supreme Court
They gonna lose the White House
They will lose several key seats in the House and the Senate as well thanks to them backing the wrong horse's arse.
Here is what is so interesting about Krauthammer's take, along with those of other conservatives: they don't see that their own hatred, vile rhetoric, and general intolerance has fueled the movement that brought Trump to this point. They created the monster. They have to own it.
I don't feel good, just better. :P
So folks who are now trying to cancel a recurring donation to Trump ... cannot do so. Trump's site does not allow it. :( Geez ...
And if so, the more important question is why it's taken until this point for the ignorance to wear off for people? He's not changed at all from jump, and only worsened in his appeal since he was made the GOP candidate.