Donald Trump is the monster the GOP created

[Cali_Democrat]

It has been amusing to watch the brands — the PGA, NBC, Macy’s, NASCAR, Univision, Serta — flee Donald Trump after his xenophobic remarks. Who even knew the Donald had a line of mattresses featuring Cool Action Dual Effects Gel Memory Foam?

But there is one entity that can’t dump Trump, no matter how hard it tries: the GOP. The Republican Party can’t dump Trump because Trump is the Republican Party.

One big Republican donor this week floated to the Associated Press the idea of having candidates boycott debates if the tycoon is onstage. Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham and other candidates have lined up to say, as Rick Perry put it, that “Donald Trump does not represent the Republican Party.”

But Trump has merely held up a mirror to the Republican Party. The man, long experience has shown, believes in nothing other than himself. He has, conveniently, selected the precise basket of issues that Republicans want to hear — or at least a significant proportion of Republican primary voters. He may be saying things more colorfully than others when he talks about Mexico sending rapists across the border, but his views show that, far from being an outlier, he is hitting all the erogenous zones of the GOP electorate.

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[jberryhill]

1. Even the memory foam wants desperately to forget

[randys1]

2. This is amazing and true and so right on.

But there is one entity that can’t dump Trump, no matter how hard it tries: the GOP. The Republican Party can’t dump Trump because Trump is the Republican Party.

[murielm99]

3. I think it is tea party crap.

They started the tea party business, a fake grassroots movement. Then it got away from them. They are stuck with it.

[rtracey]

4. heres the problem

I watched the "interview" with Katy Tur...not really an interview, Trump basically took over and highlighted, but back to the real post.... and was not impressed with the person, but was impressed with the way he was saying it. I am not a Trump follower, and I still think this is all a publicity stunt for him, but I can see where he is firing up the Fox News/ birther /Tea party base of the GOP. Some things he said last night were encompassing, but he also said he wanted our troops back in Iraq, and to bomb the oil fields. I believe Saddam Hussein did that to Kuwait..so he lost a lot of anti-war independents on that line. He wants to be King, but he doesn't get the fact that the president has very little power to get all these things he wants done, done on his own. These are acts of Congress, and he has already pissed off both houses and both parties in congress, so.... good luck Don..