Republicans stay mostly silent in face of Trump’s bigotry and misogyny

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Republicans stay mostly silent in face of Trump’s bigotry and misogyny

By Dana Milbank at the Washinton Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-stay-silent-in-face-of-trumps-bigotry-and-misogyny/2015/08/26/b53cfd78-4c32-11e5-902f-39e9219e574b_story.html

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More telling than Trump’s latest disparagement of women, or his flip rejection of Ailes’s demand for an apology, is the reaction from the rest of the Republican presidential field: virtual silence.

Even businesswoman Carly Fiorina, one of the few candidates who has called out Trump in the past, stepped carefully when asked about Trump on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday. She said Trump represents “a wake-up call to a lot of folks,” and the closest she got to criticizing him was to say that “character will be revealed of all the candidates over time and under pressure.”

But the character of the candidates already has been revealed. Trump is acting like a sexist and a bigot — and the rest of the candidates are, with occasional exceptions, too timid to call him what he is.






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1. I don't think they are too timid. I think they have figured out that Donald Trump is a person who

gets energy and ideas from being attacked. He even attacks himself in his speeches, quoting others who have attacked him in the past. That is his entire shtick.

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2. I think they know down deep that Trump represents the true republican of today and millions

like him even if they don't exclaim it out loud. Some of them are likely hoping for a VP slot.