Republicans in Denial That the Debate Exposed Donald Trump As Unfit for Office
If you’re a Republican who has been clinging to the wan hope that Donald Trump might somehow, in his eighth decade on Earth, develop into a plausibly competent president of the United States, the first debate should have been your moment to abandon ship. Trump displayed the factual command of a small child, the emotional stability of a hormonal teen, and the stamina of an old man, staggering and losing the thread as the 90 minutes wore on. Instead, Republicans — without a single exception I have seen — have responded very differently. They have treated their candidate’s glaring unsuitability for high office as, at worst, a handful of discrete errors that in no way reflect on his character, and at best, the dastardly unfairness of the liberal media.
Trump is incompetent.
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I also enjoyed this comment under the article:
8 hours ago
Nothing like seeing a rabid bully laid low -- and Hillary took him from the Penthouse of Trump Tower to the Outhouse behind the trailer of his Redneck base.
Those same poor, stupid SOBs who must have missed what Trump sees as our *actual* economic problems: wages are too high and the rich are too poor. So he plans a multi-ttrillion tax giveaway to the rich -- one that would vastly increase our debt (the same dept he blames Obama for -- although most o fit is leftover W stuff) -- and do nothing for those jobs he promises.
The ascent of Trump coincided with the dumbing-down of Americans generally (especially the area of critical thinking), the poisoning of our politics with fact-free lies by Fox-type propaganda, and the GOP Southern Strategy/Religious Right/Tea Party/Duck Dynasty voter that they have used for decades to prop up their reckless effort to make the 1% rich and ignore (or abuse) the rest of us.
So I guess I'm not on the fence. 
Give him more Hellary!
