MAINSTREAM REPUBLICANS ARE BEING LED INTO THE ABYSS

…The Washington Post is calling it like it is.

 

Donald Trump has gone from being a fringe candidate to an extreme candidate.

 

You can really tell when someone or some group has gone way beyond what is considered acceptable in American politics.  That’s when the editorial board of a major US newspaper bites-the-bullet and identifies themselves as  being the author of an important editorial.  As an example, the New York Times put an important editorial on US gun proliferation on the Times' front page recently, and that hadn't occurred for 95 years back in 1920.

 

But that’s exactly what the editorial board of the Washington Post also did recently in their editorial about how bigoted the Republican Party Debates have become.

 

Usually, a major paper would leave it to one of their star political reporters such as Dana Milbank, E.J. Dionne or Kathleen Parker to do the deed, and it would be located on the Op-Ed page.

 

But after hearing all the fear-mongering and extremely raw xenophobia that was offered at the Las Vegas GOP Primary debate, the paper’s board must have felt the issue needed to be elevated to a higher level within the publication.  As they have stated, the kinds of remarks made during the debate against all Muslims, including murdering the families of all terrorists, this was rhetoric that was at one time the hallmark of only fringe political candidates.  Based on what was offered during the debate, one would think that the extremism of the bigoted rhetoric that was presented on national TV, was now an example of mainstream conservative thinking.

 

As was stated at the beginning of the article, “The Republican Party, once small government’s champion, is now the party that breeds presidential contenders who would monitor schools and mosques, shut down parts of the Internet and exclude certain immigrants for no reason beyond the faith they profess. In the GOP debate Tuesday, those ideas — along with can-you-top-this rhetorical barrages aimed at illegal immigrants and Syrian refugees — received a generally polite reception, with constitutional, legal and practical questions contemptuously dismissed only as “political correctness.”

 

When Donald Trump first announced that he was running for the office of president, “The Donald” shocked everyone with his unfiltered ravings against Hispanics, which later grew to his plans for banning all Muslins from entering the US.  He was also for murdering not only the terrorists, but their families as well.  Just as instead of sending back the illegal Hispanics, he also wanted to send back their children, even if they were American citizens.  All totally against US law.

 

As the paper has made clear, none of Trump’s fellow candidates on either side of him on the stage had the guts to take him on in his incendiary proposal against all Muslims.

 

What is fueling all this anti-Muslim attitude is that after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Americans are rightfully afraid.  In addition, the election year polls have said that 60% of Republican primary voters like the unrealistic “banning all Muslims” idea.  But normally, it would be the duty of these candidates to bringing some commonsense ideas to the situation.  Not to climb on the bandwagon along with all of the outlying fringe elements.

 

And the "Trumpster" was the worst in the bunch.  He has become the mainstream extremists pied piper, while all the American right-wing lemmings seem to be getting in line for jumping off the cliff.

 

This was apparently what caused the Post to elect such a change in their editorial approach.

 

They finished the article with the following statement: “Fear-mongering and raw xenophobia were once the hallmarks of fringe candidates. Today the fringe candidates have stormed center stage, brandishing their zeal and hyperbole and, disturbingly, dragging the mainstream along with them.”

 

It was frightening to sit through the debate listening to all the hate speech, while not one workable solution was offered throughout the event.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2015