Oh look what the Republican’s created! For decades the GOP has made a point to scare the electorate into thinking that at every turn they are being threatened. Their jobs are being threatened by emigrants. Their comfort is being threatened by the poor. Their guns are being threatened by liberals. Their economy is being threatened by science, and their religion is being threatened by Muslims. With all the rhetoric and all the imagined threats is it no wonder that in the end what you get is Donald Trump?
What Donald has been doing is nothing more than vocalizing what has been in the hearts, minds, and actions of the worst of the Republican Party. It’s no wonder he’s been doing so well. The attitudes and desires that were once spoken behind closed doors are now out into the open for all to see and the party doesn’t like it. Their shtick has always been to present their ideas in private or hushed tones so they didn’t call attention to the corrosive right wing of the party. That way they could still enter the Whitehouse doors. Now it’s like being presented to the gates of heaven and shown all the sins that keep you from going in. They’re frightened.
Republican leaders are coming out of the woodwork to denounce Trump’s actions. Not Trump, mind you, just his actions. All they’re doing is fueling the fire. Many of them like Paul Ryan can’t seem to point a direct finger at the person causing all the commotion, making statements like “We need to denounce bigotry.” Ryan and others are just too afraid to step right out and call Trump a bigoted blow-hole with delusions of adequacy. This is why Trump is killing it. If he thinks you’re a pussy with zero political abilities and a face like a hatchet he’ll just say it. And his minions LOVE him for it!
I’ll give you this, Donald knows how to play to the WWF/NASCAR crowd! Every time he speaks it’s like watching wrestlers throwing barbs and eventually chairs at each other to the sounds of roaring fans. The difference is, this is real. Hulk Hogan and The Rock don’t go back into the dressing room and have a drink together. His fans are the types that will put a bullet in you if they don’t like how you’re dressed. If he were to be elected the first time he issued in illegal order that the government rightly refused to follow, his people would start attacking Federal establishments with all the glee of the jihadists they so claim to hate.
It’s actually fun for me watching the Republican chickens come home to roost. They’re paying the price for failing to lead. Rather than educating their constituency in the realities of the world, they’ve been all too happy following the direction of the fire and reacting after they see which way the wind blows. Now that the fire has led to the volcano, they’re less than thrilled with the outcome. The only thing left to do now is to get out of the way and hope that ground rumbling is just a warning and not a full eruption.