Egan: Trump Is The Poison Republicans Concoted
In the New York Times, Timothy Egan gives credit where credit is due.
The adults patrolling the playpen of Republican politics are appalled that we’ve become a society where it’s O.K. to make fun of veterans, to call anyone who isn’t rich a loser, to cast an entire group of newly arrived strivers as rapists and shiftless criminals…
They say he’s trashing the Republic brand. They say he’s “stirring up the crazies,” in the words of Senator John McCain. But Trump is the brand, to a sizable degree. And the crazies have long flourished in the Republican media wing, where any amount of gaseous buffoonery goes unchallenged…
Trump is a byproduct of all the toxic elements Republicans have thrown into their brew over the last decade or so — from birtherism to race-based hatred of immigrants, from nihilists who shut down government to elected officials who shout “You lie!” at their commander in chief…
Consider Trump’s swipe against McCain’s military service, and by extension all veterans who have been involved in the fog of combat. Republicans were apoplectic at Trump’s claim that McCain was no war hero.
“All of our veterans, particularly P.O.W.s, deserve our respect and admiration,” said Jeb Bush. The Republican National Committee was quick to lay down a similar principle, saying, “There is no place in our country for comments that disparage those who have served honorably.”
No place except a presidential campaign, that being the 2004 attempt to destroy the honorable Vietnam service of candidate John Kerry. Where was Bush’s “respect and admiration” when his brother was benefiting from a multimillion-dollar smear of a Navy veteran with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart?
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Budda July 24th, 2015 at 10:20
Trump spouts off all these platitudes of how he is going to ‘save’ America yet he hasn’t ever said how he will do it. The Media needs to grill him on it, make him answer and call him on his BS.
Tommie July 24th, 2015 at 10:26
He is the talking points master, even if some of them are his own talking points!!
anothertoothpick July 24th, 2015 at 12:53
He is a legend in his own mind.
tracey marie July 24th, 2015 at 10:50
He does personify all the hate from the right, I do hope they are wise enough not to nominate him or walker. The country will be in a lot of trouble if either are chosen, wars, pollution,death of soldiers in another endless war, no HC or Unions and the wealthy getting more while paying no taxes.
dewired4u July 24th, 2015 at 15:36
If they nominate him and he wins the general election then we’re screwed if not we get Clinton or Sanders.
tracey marie July 24th, 2015 at 15:42
He will never win the WH.
crc3 July 24th, 2015 at 13:24
A huge part of the problem is the MEDIA because they give DT (and others) a platform to spew his (their) venom. It’s gotten to the point for me to just turn off the news and ignore the stupidity of the Repulsives (and even some Dems)…
AnthonyLook July 24th, 2015 at 15:44
Trump’s lead in the GOP clown car two presidential campaigns is hardly unexpected. Predictable is anything. All references to the Republican “base” of tea party birther racists, catapulting Trump to the lead are avoided by the media. The lack of characterization of “racist” support being the reason for Trump poll numbers, is avoided at all cost.
The efforts of legitimizing Trump’s supporters get comical when media pundits are pressed to explain Trump’s rise. No one wants to publically admit that racists supporters, the base of the Republican party (the tea party birther racists) are who gave rise to Trump and racism is the reason why.
Greebo July 24th, 2015 at 16:03
He’s not going to run – at least when financial disclosure is due, he’s going to drop out.
Sometimes I wonder whether his “candidacy” is nothing but an attempt of the GOP establishment to make the other candiates look sane(-ish).
bpollen July 25th, 2015 at 04:00
The republican chicken has come home to roost: