Trump Is Who He's Always Been, and Trump Is the Epitome of the GOP; They Have to Own Him

[kpete]

Long story short: There is no way out from Trump for the GOP. They are stuck, and they got there the old fashioned way: they earned it.
by Marcy Wheeler


...............

The most striking thing, however, is not that this video exists, nor that it has emerged to public view, it is that the Republican party worthies and press seem to think it is shocking. Seriously, this information, and the Donald Trump it reflects, is exactly who Donald Trump is, and has been, for decades.

Donald Trump is a once and forever informationally ignorant, self serving jackass extreme narcissist. But he has been that for decades to anybody paying attention. Trump was the leader from the start in the Republican primary, and was the easy winner of their nomination. Why? Because the votes on the ground count, much to the consternation of supposed “sane party elders”, and the votes on the ground made Trump an easy winner. He is exactly what the current Republican GOP party embodies at its heart.

................

The Republican party of today has relentlessly stood against women’s rights and ability to control their own bodies, equal rights and protections for LGBT citizens, fair treatment for minorities and immigrants, and the right to vote for anybody other than middle aged fat white men. The current Republican party think that they are the only “suspect class” due “equal protection”, and not the minorities, races, genders, sexual identities and other endangered classes the civil rights laws were designed to protect.

.....Not for one second should anybody accept that Trump is the sudden exception, he is unequivocally what the GOP has been growing into for years.The modern Republican party has long championed racism, bigotry and misogyny; Donald Trump is just the point of their spear. To the extent there are any “honest brokers” left in the GOP, they are still guilty of benign neglect that allowed the ugliness that is the Trumpian GOP to fester.

...............

The GOP cannot run from Donald Trump, he is who they are now. The last minute panicked contrition of the very women blaming and shaming, racists, bigots and oligarchs that claim to speak for the GOP cannot shed the snake skin of who they are, and what they have created.


Oh, and by the way,
the rest:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/10/08/trump-who-hes-always-been-and-trump-epitome-gop-they-have-own-him

[napkinz]

1. yep

Not for one second should anybody accept that Trump is the sudden exception, he is unequivocally what the GOP has been growing into for years

[malaise]

2. Freaking perfect

Rec

[Staph]

3. I was disgusted by the tape,

but not surprised. Never surprised by Trump displaying this kind of behavior -- he's shown this attitude about women for decades and shown it very publicly. We just never heard him use those words before.

[moondust]

4. No more PC! No more PC! No more PC!

TheRump encourages them to be their savage, bigoted selves. He's normalizing it and they love it. They f-ing hate having to act civilized all the time.