They brought this on themselves. Starting back in 2008 with the Tea Party movement sponsored by the Koch Bros, race-baiting and fear-mongering mostly directed at the new POTUS became okay. It become okay to scream out "you lie" when POTUS was speaking. Over the next 8 years, the GOP never really disavowed any of the grotesque and despicable things that have gone on and now the monster they created has come back to bite them in the ass. Their rebuking was always weak and tepid--"I can't speak for so-in-so" or blaming the Dems and POTUS. Now they reap what they sow.
Trump is just capitalizing on that Monster (xenophobia, fear), using it to create events like Friday night. People are afraid of the monster and the monster itself is driven by fear in the form of xenophobia, homophobia, and bigotry. Protesters vs. Supporters. Both afraid, angry. The protesters played right into Trumps hand and become the very thing he described to his followers. Multi-ethnic liberals from Obama's Chicago. BOO! We got you now!! Things couldn't have played out more perfectly for Trump when the protesters and supporters went at it. It takes two to tango and, in the aftermath, only the Dems seem to honest enough to admit that. Trump is telling his followers they were the victims of something old man Bernie planned.
(NOTE: I don't support Trump at all, but the protesters behavior didn't help their cause -- engaging with fear and bigotry only breeds more fear by reinforcing the beliefs of the bigoted.)
The GOP proper is now terrified of the monster because it is associated with them-- Donald IS running as a republican and his voters both non-bigoted and bigoted come from that side of the spectrum. There are Trump supporters who come from the same place Bernie supporters do, they can't stand the top 1% controlling their country and they want D.C. to change. But there is also the Trump supporters who most definitely come from that ugly place in American history, fear of the red/yellow/black man. Bigotry. And yes, these people tend to live south of the Mason-Dixon line. Some even still call the Civil War the War of Northern Aggression. Ignorance and fear bred by a failed school system and bad parenting.
Today and moving forward, the 55-60% of Republicans that DO NOT support Donald are banning together to pull him down and destroy him. To do this they must disavow all the bigotry, xenophobia, and other hatred being spewed by him and supporters.
But they will likely try to have their cake and eat it too--thus not really disavowing all the anti-Obama stuff that's clearly race-based. And they will try to distance themselves from Trumps xenophobia while keeping up their own talking points about Mexicans and Muslims. Have their cake and eat it too. FAIL.
All the GOPs parsing and mincing words when disavowing the grotesque demagoguery and fear-mongering has become a slow and steady ripping apart of the party, one stitch at a time. I do hope the party of Lincoln survives their own convention. Cutting ties with the bigots and religious extremists once and for all would be a good thing for the GOP, open the the door to moderates and fiscally conservative Dems. The party doesn't need to die, just give itself a full enema and flush the grotesque and bigoted faction down the drain.
In a perfect world, Trump supporters and Bernie supporter who are on the same page with regard to Washington D.C. and the 1% rigging the system will find an electable candidate for 2020.
Trump is just capitalizing on that Monster (xenophobia, fear), using it to create events like Friday night. People are afraid of the monster and the monster itself is driven by fear in the form of xenophobia, homophobia, and bigotry. Protesters vs. Supporters. Both afraid, angry. The protesters played right into Trumps hand and become the very thing he described to his followers. Multi-ethnic liberals from Obama's Chicago. BOO! We got you now!! Things couldn't have played out more perfectly for Trump when the protesters and supporters went at it. It takes two to tango and, in the aftermath, only the Dems seem to honest enough to admit that. Trump is telling his followers they were the victims of something old man Bernie planned.
(NOTE: I don't support Trump at all, but the protesters behavior didn't help their cause -- engaging with fear and bigotry only breeds more fear by reinforcing the beliefs of the bigoted.)
The GOP proper is now terrified of the monster because it is associated with them-- Donald IS running as a republican and his voters both non-bigoted and bigoted come from that side of the spectrum. There are Trump supporters who come from the same place Bernie supporters do, they can't stand the top 1% controlling their country and they want D.C. to change. But there is also the Trump supporters who most definitely come from that ugly place in American history, fear of the red/yellow/black man. Bigotry. And yes, these people tend to live south of the Mason-Dixon line. Some even still call the Civil War the War of Northern Aggression. Ignorance and fear bred by a failed school system and bad parenting.
Today and moving forward, the 55-60% of Republicans that DO NOT support Donald are banning together to pull him down and destroy him. To do this they must disavow all the bigotry, xenophobia, and other hatred being spewed by him and supporters.
But they will likely try to have their cake and eat it too--thus not really disavowing all the anti-Obama stuff that's clearly race-based. And they will try to distance themselves from Trumps xenophobia while keeping up their own talking points about Mexicans and Muslims. Have their cake and eat it too. FAIL.
All the GOPs parsing and mincing words when disavowing the grotesque demagoguery and fear-mongering has become a slow and steady ripping apart of the party, one stitch at a time. I do hope the party of Lincoln survives their own convention. Cutting ties with the bigots and religious extremists once and for all would be a good thing for the GOP, open the the door to moderates and fiscally conservative Dems. The party doesn't need to die, just give itself a full enema and flush the grotesque and bigoted faction down the drain.
In a perfect world, Trump supporters and Bernie supporter who are on the same page with regard to Washington D.C. and the 1% rigging the system will find an electable candidate for 2020.
