Trump: Unsafe at most speeds

Source: Washington Examiner | August 2, 2016 | Noemie Emery

When does it become a necessity for a political party to disown a campaign? This is the question that has hung over the Republican Party since the middle of May, when it became clear that Donald Trump had closed in on his 1,237 delegates, and now has assumed different forms: The moral one, or when does Trump’s unique mix of coarseness and cruelty start to corrode the Party of Lincoln to the point that its moral fabric becomes irreparable; and the practical one, which is when does that coarseness and cruelty, which every day seems to find some new and before-this-unthinkable means of expression, start to become an unbearable burden for Republican candidates who have to win an election in other than deeply red states?

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….. He was a racist, but they still endorsed him. He was a fool, but they still endorsed him. He was an ignoramus, but they still endorsed him. Now he’s not only those things but is justly described as a monster of callousness, as an idiot so obtuse that he conflates getting rich with making a sacrifice, and perhaps worst of all, too dumb to realize what ought to have gone without without saying, that ATTACKING THE GOLD STAR PARENTS OF A DEAD SOLDIER-HERO IS STUPIDEST THING YOU CAN DO. Making it worse is the fact that just as l’affaire Khan reached hurricane status, Trump affirmed and denied that he was a friend and a fan boy of Putin, that he had no interest at all in the future of NATO, and no knowledge of the fact that the Soviet Union was now in Ukraine at all.

…. Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, et al are trying to sell us a dangerous gas bag, under the claim that he is a standard issue Republican model, a normal sedan like so many others, while knowing too well the clutch doesn’t work, the steering’s erratic, and the brakes don’t exist. Will they wake up in time, before the worst happens? Or one day will we see them in court?

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