Wehner: The man the founders feared
Pete Wehner is a highly-respected and credentialed conservative who in served the last three Republican administrations.
His entire campaign, from its very first moments, has been built on stoking anger, grievances and resentment against people of other races, religions and nationalities. Mexicans coming to America are rapists and drug dealers. Muslims hate America and need to be barred from it. Syrian refugees are “Trojan horses.”
Not surprisingly, Mr. Trump’s politics of hate is now metastasizing into violence. He incites people — not all people to be sure, but enough. On social media in particular, one sees how he gives his supporters permission to express dark and ugly sentiments that existed before but were generally kept hidden from view…
That Mr. Trump’s rise has occurred in the Republican Party is painful for those of us who are Republicans. That more and more Republicans are making their own accommodation with or offering outright support for Mr. Trump — governors like Chris Christie and Rick Scott, the former candidate Ben Carson and the former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich — makes things even worse. Because we can no longer deny what Mr. Trump is and what he represents. The prospect of turning the party apparatus over to such a person is sickening.
The founders, knowing history and human nature, took great care to devise a system that would prevent demagogues and those with authoritarian tendencies from rising up in America. That system has been extraordinarily successful. We have never before faced the prospect of a political strongman becoming president.
Until now.
Copyright 2016 Liberaland
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glynnis bugati March 20th, 2016 at 16:41
You built this, Republicans. Fox, Coulter, Limbaugh and all the rest.
And now you whine and cry about it like the spoiled children you are.
tracey marie March 20th, 2016 at 17:17
Stop whining, this is where you have been headed for decades and since 2007 you turned it up full throttle, you own trump and all the hate.
Suzanne McFly March 20th, 2016 at 17:46
He needs to start the article off by apologizing IMO.
Jus'speakin'th'truth March 20th, 2016 at 19:51
Wehner wasn’t whining when the Establishment thought they were in control of the rubes…
bpollen March 21st, 2016 at 02:00
Whining about the long-term effects of short-term thinking. As if you couldn’t predict that a policy of scapegoating instead of representing the best interest of your constituents could result in a demagogue whose shtick in trade is scapegoating. Like “I covered the couch in lighter-fluid and threw a match but … never thought it would catch on fire.”
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rg9rts March 21st, 2016 at 07:32
What is Wehner’s problem,?????? He is only saying in public what the gopee has preached behind closed doors for decades ,,,,,