GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump

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GOP leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop Trump

The Editorial Board at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gop-leaders-you-must-do-everything-in-your-power-to-stop-trump/2016/02/24/d993b548-db0e-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html?tid=ss_tw

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is starting to look like the inevitable: Absent an extraordinary effort from people who understand the menace he represents, Donald Trump is likely to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. At this stage, even an extraordinary effort might fall short. But history will not look kindly on GOP leaders who fail to do everything in their power to prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard-bearer.

A few days ago we criticized Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for his assertion that a Trump victory in November would silence the doubters. “Winning is the antidote to a lot of things,” Mr. Priebus had said. We argued that winning would not erase the bigotry and ugliness of Mr. Trump’s campaign, nor remove the dangers of a Trump presidency. On Wednesday, the GOP chairman, perhaps wanting to show that he can match Mr. Trump in eloquence, responded: “That is the stupidest editorial that I have ever seen.”

So it falls to other leaders to decide if their party will stand for anything other than winning. A political party, after all, isn’t meant to be merely a collection of consultants, lobbyists and functionaries angling for jobs. It is supposed to have principles: in the Republican case, at least as we have always understood it, to include a commitment to efficient government, free markets and open debate.

Now it is faced with a front-runner who, in the interval between the two Priebus comments cited above, said of a protester, “I’d like to punch him in the face.” This is a front-runner with no credible agenda and no suitable experience. He wants the United States to commit war crimes, including torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists. He admires Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and sees no difference between Mr. Putin’s victims and people killed in the defense of the United States. He would round up and deport 11 million people, a forced movement on a scale not attempted since Stalin or perhaps Pol Pot. He has, during the course of his campaign, denigrated women, Jews, Muslims, Mexicans, people with disabilities and many more. He routinely trades in wild falsehoods and doubles down when his lies are exposed.




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[hifiguy]

1. Please do explain to me, WaPo, how Trump is any different

from the rest of the krazies from the klown kar? He says exactly the same things, just openly and without the coded language. Cruz makes Il Douche look relatively sane and he's #2 in the Most Awful sweepstakes.

[Bucky]

2. Let's face it, Republicans are American quislings, American Chamberlains

When the Trump blitz rolls through their party, they'll collaborate like a Vichy whore and help him get elected and dismantle the First Amendment. We can't count on the Republican establishment. They're already trying to figure out how to accommodate him as their leader. It's pathetic.

If Trump is to be stopped, he'll have to be stopped in November. It'll be up to us. It'll be up to us Bernie supporters, if need be, to swallow our pride and push Hillary Clinton into the White House. Anything less than 100% support, even for a corrupt plutocrat like Clinton, borders on treason.

The Republic will survive another four years of Wall Street handjobbing from a moderate Dem. Hell, we'd even survive the rolling trainwreck of a Rubio presidency. It very well may not survive whatever Trump plans to do with us.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. They are so screwed

[jonno99]

4. What makes you think it's just THEM? nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. They have to deal with their own monster.

Sweet!

[jonno99]

7. That would be nice - however, my guess is we'll ALL have to deal with Trump...nt

[Turbineguy]

5. They are worried Hillary or Bernie will win.

They want to put Professor Moriarty or The Empty Suit in the Whitehouse.