Enough of the media's Republican-friendly reverse logic!
The country is being fed some reverse logic by our media.
They would have us believe that we need to take Donald Trump seriously as as candidate for President of the United States by virtue of being duly chosen by the primary process of the Republican Party. The Republican Party is, after all, the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. If that party nominated Trump, the media pundits’ logic goes, he is in some august company, and therefore there is more to him than meets the eye or ear.
But the Republican Party is also the party of Warren Harding, Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney (dba G.W. Bush), not to mention Darryl Issa, Steve King, Joni Ernst, Louie Gohmert, Fox “News,” and Herman Cain. They are the party of Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Iraq invasion scam, the Clinton impeachment, 8 years of obstructing Obama for the thinly disguised sin of his father’s DNA, and climate change denial. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower wouldn’t have been able to win a Republican primary for street sweeper these days, much less higher office. Twenty years of having Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch and Rush Limbaugh telling them what they believe have had the desired effect. Well, AN effect, anyway. The nomination of Donald Trump has woken up even some Republicans to what has become of them. They now have a nominee that stands for nothing. Trump doesn’t take a stand. He does stand-up.
Thus my observation/accusation that the media is using reverse logic on us. Trump is not deserving of being attributed some magically acquired gravitas simply by virtue of being nominated by the Republican Party. It is the Republican Party that is deserving of our utmost contempt for devolving into a party can nominate the likes of Donald Trump for President, and still ask to be taken seriously. They have resources at their disposal that need to be taken seriously, don’t get me wrong. The Kochs are pumping a billion dollars (or more) into their candidates this election, and other serious money is flowing in their direction as well, even if good will, patriotism and sanity are not. But these resources are not due to a groundswell of support from tens of millions of voters. They can be withdrawn at a whim if the owners get offended or simply decide not to play any more. Subtract the big money from the equation, and Republicans’ Beverly Hills villa becomes an unheated damp wooden shack in Appalachia whose tap water causes cancer in children.
We do have to take Trump, the nominee, seriously, at least for two more months. But this is for the threat he presents to our country. The party that willingly chose him is no longer deserving of being taken seriously except as a clear and present danger. How much longer the media will choose to ignore this is anyone’s guess. Except for Putin’s Russia and North Korea, one would be hard-pressed to find citizens of ANY other country that express something other than a mixture of horror and disbelief at America—not only for Trump’s candidacy, but over the party that put him there. (Suzy Creamcheese, what's got into ya?)
Maybe the Republican Party is not yet an unsafe brand that needs to be taken off the shelves entirely, but they have been offering a lot of toxic product of late. The media’s responsibility to the public does not stop at having found that out. Their responsibility, once they HAVE found that out, is to tell us.
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That article not only knocked it outta the park, it knocks it right to the moon! 
although there are a few who didn't miss it and an even smaller fraction who have been willing to at least bemoan the fact that their party has been hijacked and even call it out. I think those are the ones who are choosing not to vote for their party's standard-bearer. The fact that the Dallas Morning News did what they did still has me doing this --> 
