"The Republican Party Made Donald Trump. Now Donald Trump Is Destroying the Republican Party."

[procon]

"After blasting away at Hispanics, Muslims, “the blacks,” women, the media, an opponent’s wife and father, a federal judge, the parents of a dead U.S. soldier, a journalist with a disability, a Miss Universe, Rosie O’Donnell, Megyn Kelly, Samuel L. Jackson (Google that one), The National Football League (“soft like our country”), a war hero senator (“I like people that weren’t captured”), the Ghostbusters remake (“with only women—what’s going on?”, Elizabeth Warren, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“her mind is shot”), Pope Francis, Crooked Hillary, and on and on and on, Donald Trump has finally homed in on a target that richly deserves everything he can throw at it: The Republican Party.

If you have been as horrified as any normal person at most of those outbursts, this is one to sit back and enjoy. And while I doubt that Trump can ruin the GOP, because after all a political party that’s been around for 150-plus years is a pretty big thing, he can come close. And boy has the party earned the right to be ruined by him.

It’s been said many times, but it bears repeating because Republican leaders still won’t acknowledge it, at least publicly: They created Trump. They started creating him 30 years ago when Rush Limbaugh and the others began working their audiences into states of rage against feminists and black people and immigrants, and they validated Rush and the gang by going on their shows and sucking up to them.

more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/11/the-republican-party-made-donald-trump-now-donald-trump-is-destroying-the-republican-party.html

This is an excellent essay on the appalling Trump phenomenon.

[Stargleamer]

1. On November 9th, they'll be back to trying to trying to inflict Rubio or Kasich on us in 2020

so no I don't think this will have long-term consequences.

[sailfla]

2. Think they know how to spell KARMA?

[ailsagirl]

3. Beyond ironic

karma!!

[Cakes488]

4. They need to cut off the money flow pronto