Great article on Trump and the state of the GoP

[Dr Grump]

"But we'd be wrong to fixate only on Trump's lies.

He has told plenty. But history will remember Trump for the unvarnished truth he has revealed about the Republican Party, about a toady leadership and manipulative, calculating donors who for decades abused the interests of a seething membership, believing they could always control the rabble – even as they imposed policies that sold them out."

US election 2016: Donald Trump's candidacy set to change the Republican Party

My personal favourite part of the article:

From his eyrie at the Brookings Institution, conservative commentator Robert Kagan makes no attempt to conceal his contempt: "The current Republican Party is unfit to lead the country. It has failed the greatest test a political leader or party can face, and failed spectacularly – it has abandoned its principles out of a combination of cowardice and opportunism; it has worked to place in the White House the most dangerous threat to US democracy since the Civil War; and it has in the process engineered its own suicide."

 

[Dr Grump]

And the reason why people voted for Trump. Too true...

But some of the most considered speculation on a way forward comes from David Frum, a neo-conservative and former George W. Bush speechwriter.Writing in The Atlantic, he gets to the nub of the hoax exposed by Trump: "White Middle Americans express heavy mistrust of every institution in American society: not only government, but corporations, unions, even the political party they typically vote for – the Republican Party of Romney, Ryan, and McConnell, which they despise as a sad crew of weaklings and sellouts. They are pissed off. And when Donald Trump came along, they were the people who told the pollsters, 'That's my guy.'"

 

[Avatar4321]

Where have you been hiding grump?

 

[Dr Grump]

Where have you been hiding grump?

Could ask the same of you Avi! I've been on here for a while now - it's election season....my favourite part of the decade