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The Self-Immolation of the Republican PartyColumn: How the GOP lit itself on fire
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.......Every week that Donald Trump remains the Republican nominee, the party comes closer to removing itself from the presidential gene pool. Self-selection is at work here. Trumps supporters are choosing their partys demise.
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This is not a good man. This is not a stable man. It is in the self-interest of no rational person to have him near the situation room. So it does not come as a surprise to see support for Donald Trump collapsing in the Real Clear Politics poll average. Hillary Clinton now leads him by about six points. His unfavorable rating in the ABC News / Washington Post poll is up to 70 percent, a record high. The election isnt until November 8. Where will Trumps unfavorable rating be then? 85 percent? 90? Hell make the record books all rightas the most reviled nominee in U.S. history.
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Its a joke. All of it: his candidacy, the apparatus of propaganda and grift surrounding it, the failures of governance and education and culture that have brought us to this place. What disturbs me most is the prospect that Donald Trump is what a very large number of Republican voters want: not a wonk, not an orator, not a statesman, not even a leader, really, if by leader you mean someone who persuades and inspires and manages a team to pursue a common good. They just want a man who vents their anger at targets above and below their status.
How cathartic it is to give voice to your fury, to wallow in self-righteousness, in helplessness, in self-serving self-pity. Its what one expects of teenagers, artists, bloggers, pajama boysimmature, peevish, radical, self-destructive behavior. If that is how Republican voters would like to end their days, in a defensive posture of suspicion and loathing of this big crazy wonderful country that has made them literally the wealthiest and most entitled generation of human beings in the history of the world, well, thats their right as Americans, I suppose. Best of luck. The Darwin Award will be ready for you November 9
http://freebeacon.com/columns/self-immolation-republican-party/
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)they pointed out that the percentage of Americans who approved of Trump was exactly the same as those who couldn't find the Pacific on a map.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Washington Free Beacon wrote a whole book defending Sarah Palin.None of these idiots are ever going to admit that Trump is their own creation.
runaway hero
(835 posts)I have been wondering how Trump is so bad compared to Sarah? Even Trump knows where Russia is...
I guess someone will comment on how I'm missing the point of the essay, but that was a jarring note. If I'm not being too self-pitying.
Iggo
(47,549 posts)What an asshole.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Iggo
(47,549 posts)Just gets better an better, don't it.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)he certainly showed his slip there, didn't he? Seems to be a case of the proverbial blind squirrel finding an acorn.
colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)What the hell is a pajama boy?
Sounds like just another Repub passing the blame.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)PJMcK
(22,031 posts)Thanks for posting the link, kpete. I was unfamiliar with the Free Beacon and even though it's a right-wing website, I find it interesting to read what the other side is thinking.
A couple of lines jumped out to me:
"It is in the self-interest of no rational person to have him near the situation room."
"This is self-immolation on an epic scale."
Then the author hits the phony real estate developer with:
"To use a real-estate metaphor: How do you expect to build a skyscraper when you are demolishing the foundation?"
This is going to be a real show to watch. The author's projection about the debate between Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton mirrors my own expectation. The only difference is I give Mr. Trump about 20 minutes before he blows a gasket and goes full-on Trump.
kpete
(71,984 posts)"How do you expect to build a skyscraper when you are demolishing the foundation?"
music for our ears!
peace,
kp
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Matthew Continetti is the author of The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star.
Right wing fool needs to own what he's done.
Volaris
(10,270 posts)The establishment is about to tell The Base exactly what their Place is, and the response from The Base will be exactly what most of us already expect. The downward spiral will continue unabated until there's just nothing left. It's about damned time.
=)
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)and would be surprised if he wasn't. At this point with so much accepted corruption, and big money flying around everywhere, it makes perfect sense.
Next to Bush Sr., Clintons got into office the first time, now in order for them to look GOOD they have to contrast themselves against a crazy RW racist nutbag. It is the old plan that worked before. But this time people are awake.