GOP HAS A SERIOUS NIGHTMARE THAT THEY CAN’T CONTROL
…The GOP’s Nightmare
Mr. Trump has an unfavorable
rating of 70%, but the bulk of the GOP supporters, still side with Donald J.
Trump.
Since the
horrible massacre in Orlando, I have been concerned about the nightmare that
was created by the current presumed Republican presidential nominee.
Here, the
narcissistic real estate mogul, who say that he speaks for the American people,
widened his demand for a ban on Muslim immigration. He did that even though the killer in
the local gay nightclub was a disturbed American born terrorist. This man, that had been on a watch list, was somehow
allowed to purchase an assault rifle, with a high capacity magazine and thousands
of the necessary ammunition to kill anyone, whenever he felt the urge.
Apparently,
Mr. Trump has assumed that the American people are just fine with a strong
dictator-like individual to just put aside the inconvenience of our
constitutional government. If that is
what he thinks, I am here to say he is flat wrong.
And the
political polls are proving me correct.
Two major
polls after the Orlando attack found that 62%
of Americans rejected a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating to the United
States, while only 31% supported it.
The problem
for the leaders of the GOP, is that
the majority of the American public are saying they don’t agree with Donald
Trump. In fact, in the latest national
poll, Mr. Trump has an unfavorable rating of 70% of those surveyed. But
the bulk of those supporters of the Republican Party, they still side with
Donald J. Trump.
When asked
about Trump’s response to the Orlando attack, Americans disapproved, 51% to 25%. And it was only the
Republicans that approved of Trump’s response by a margin of about 2-to-1. Also, not surprisingly, Democrats
overwhelmingly disapproved of Trump’s reaction to the Orlando killings, and
independents did so as well, both by a margin of 5-to-2.
What was even
more worrisome for the Republicans was that more independents disapproved of
Trump’s response to Orlando by 51%,
where only 36% disagreed with
Hillary Clinton’s response.
I actually
kind of felt sorry for some GOP leaders
such as the House Speaker, Paul Ryan.
Speaker Ryan is
180° in his disassociating himself from Trump’s
comments on terrorism. But Ryan still
refuses to withdraw his endorsement of this same man who has won his party’s
nomination.
If Donald
Trump’s take on terrorism is as irresponsible as Ryan says it is, how can a
responsible politician like Ryan possibly want such an extremist as his
commander in chief…?
Unfortunately,
the answer is more obvious: If Ryan and others like him tried to block Trump, they
would enrage half to two-thirds of their own partisan supporters.
Then we have President
Obama, who made it clear how Republicans have long said “we can’t beat ISIL unless we call them ‘radical Islamists.’ ”
All the
president was doing was making it clear about what the social scientists
Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab had observed in their classic book “The Politics of Unreason.”
Right-wing
extremists such as Trump, they wrote, have always highlighted: “the magical power of the word” and their
faith that: “just saying the right thing,
believing the right thing, is the substance of victory and the remedy.”
Throughout the
Obama presidency, Republicans have touched those edges of extremist
politics. Up to now, this has allowed
the GOP leaders to appease the
hot-heads in their group.
But today,
instead of listening to their leaders, you know, the ones that never
followed-through with their declarations. But the Republican faithful have instead
decided they wanted to their own Trump wizard who they think will actually
follow through with his extreme ideas.
As was stated
by the very capable op-ed writer for the Washington
Post, E.J. Dionne, who said it
best when he wrote: “…..the GOP leaders have turned their own party
into a Jurassic Park: They can no
longer control what they have created.”
Hear, Hear……..Copyright G.Ater 2016
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