“So let me make it perfectly clear, Senate Republicans condemn David Duke [and] the KKK,” said Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority leader about Donald Trump. “I condemn his comments in the most forceful way.”
But that was then. Now, he hopes Trump will take the White House. Winning it for the Republicans is more important. Means don’t matter if the end goal is achieved.
Lindsay Graham called him a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. Now, he’s urging Republicans at a Florida fund raiser to back Trump.
House Speaker Paul Ryan sounded cool on him. Now he’s hoping Trump will be elected.
Rick Perry was going to defend conservatism from the cancer of Trumpism. Then, he endorsed him: “What I do believe is that he loves this country and he will surround himself with capable, experienced people and he will listen to them”.
Mike Huckabee at least was consistent, pounding on Republicans who were unwilling to climb in bed with Donald Trump. “The establishment Republicans are all, you know, bed-wetting over this… They don’t seem to understand that we have an election.”
Before standing behind Trump, Chris Christie considered him “thin-skinned”, “carnival barker”, “entertainer-in-chief”, and mocked his Mexican wall: “This is not negotiation of a real estate deal, OK? This is international diplomacy, and it’s different.”
Marco Rubio is praising him as the ultimate change agent now. Before, he was belittling Trump’s hands, and you-know-what-else.
Let’s draw a line, here, and chalk it all up: Something is very rotten in Washington.
And it was rotten long before Trump came on stage. These individuals were supposed to be party leaders, elected as citizen representatives – the best and the brightest of the nation. Isn’t that how Democracy, with capital D, was supposed to work?
We still value, in this country, people who say what they mean, and mean what they say. It’s still considered a sign of character to be a “straight shooter”, to be truthful and speak squarely no matter who might get upset. But that’s at the bottom, in our day to day interactions. What regards these individuals at the top – supposedly, the best among us – they are casually willing to fabricate, deceive, be false, switch side, say one thing today, and another thing the next day.
Then, this is not really a very representative democracy, is it, if leaders at the top speak differently and act differently from regular people at the bottom.
Let me ask you, all wise BMGers: How did this come about? And what will it take to change?
…has proven the truth of the saying, “Democrats must fall in love, while Republicans must fall in line.” Remember when everyone assumed that Clinton would get a coronation while Trump wouldn’t have enough delegates for a first ballot victory?
But why must they fall in line? Why do they find, like buffalo, safety in their herd?
Would they fall in line, say, if Hitler passed the Nurenberg Laws to codify the day to day abuses that Jews, gypsies, mental patients, and other minorities had been subjected to?
The GOP was billing itself as the party of rugged individuality – home to the independent thinkers and the dog-eat-dog types. So much for that. Suprise, surprise – their tough individualism was just another act.
..but regarding Nuremberg please don’t give them any ideas!
because the people see them as illegitimate frauds who are only focused on their won well being, re-election, and campaign funding.
The Democrats will learn this lesson in November.
The only silver lining I see in this is even if Hillary wins, or when Trump wins, this is a one term presidency no matter who wins.