Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s abject surrender to Donald Trump as the Republican Presidential nominee marks the end of the Republican Party completely.
Ryan, as the top ranking Republican in Congress, and two heartbeats away from the Presidency, has lost all credibility, by supporting a man who is a racist, nativist, misogynist, massive liar, and a xenophobe, and who has continued to attack viciously members of his own party who dare to challenge him.
Trump is a Fascist who has the backing of a declining white population who is crazy enough to think a billionaire who has been a bully, a narcissist, an egotist, all of his life, and has abused people verbally, and cheated workers and consumers on a regular basis his entire life, will suddenly show concern for the average American.
We have a lot of delusional people in this nation who clearly have no understanding of what American democracy is all about, that we need to unite, rather than divide, to move to the future .
As long as we have one percent of the population, a true oligarchy, dictating life to the rest of us, we have lost the dream of Theodore Roosevelt more than a century ago who, if he was here on earth now, would be leading the charge against a man who is the most dangerous person ever to compete for the Presidency.
All decent people must go past their biases, their prejudices, their hatreds, and even their finances, to do what is right for America, and that is to deal Donald Trump, the Fascist, a resounding defeat in November, to avoid a constitutional crisis and the danger of world wide war, brought about by this maniac–our Mussolini, our Franco, and maybe even, our Hitler!
Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler?? You are starting to sound like Glenn Beck! LOL!!! I repeat I will not vote for Trump or Hillary. And I won’t vote for Trump not because he is a racist, he clearly is not, but because he is just another big government protectionist populist. Period. That said, I keep asking and asking and no one gives me a single example of anything Trump said that was racist.
My Republican co-workers are not voting for Trump because of what the Professor mentioned. Unlike Mercy, they also clearly see that Trump is dangerous.
The possible benefit of having Trump as a GOP candidate is that he’s so manifestly unsuited for the job that it may impel some of these not-insane Republicans to re-consider their own stances. My own 89-year old uncle is a lifelong staunch Republican who subscribes to the notion that Obama has been a total disaster, but he as much as told me last month (May) he is not voting for Trump. I think there is an excellent chance he votes for Clinton, but even if he simply doesn’t cast a vote at all, that is a huge advantage for the Democrats if the GOP is losing people like him. One key aspect of him is that while he’s very religious, it’s in the old school sense—he’s a Methodist, and does not subscribe to the religious beliefs of the Evangelicals. He had as much disdain for Cruz as he does Trump. Bizarrely, thanks to Trump, his vote is gettable for Clinton.
Rational Lefty – You pretty much summed up how my co-workers are. Many of them are either going to hold their nose and vote for Hillary or sit out this election.
Same way with Republicans I know. They found Bush and Kasich more preferable to Trump and Cruz. Some are sitting out. Others are going to be swing voters, swinging over to vote for the Democrats this fall.
LOL! Trump paused at a rally and said, “Look at my African-American over here”. The way he says it, it sounds like the man is his slave. https://vine.co/v/iYnhulOFdYK
This article contains a list of racists things Trump has said. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_06/out_of_left_field060729.php
The end of the Republican Party really began during the 1992 campaign with the Patrick Buchanan speech during the convention and the infiltration of the Moral Majority/Jerry Falwell/Pat Robinson faction. This led to two terms of Bill Clinton. W just pandered to them to win his two terms. The party just continued to give up its identity to the Tea Party and now it’s just clown electoral college time with the party of Lincoln…
Trump is back to attacking Muslims, saying a Muslim judge would be biased against him. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-its-possible-muslim-judge-would-be-biased
Paul Doyle,
It may interest you to know (just in case you did not) that all 17 states which carried for the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln (1860), also carried for the nation’s first black president, Democrat Barack Obama (2008)
What a transformation!