Salon: Fox News built a f**ked-up Frankenstein, dumb, angry and divorced from facts. Now Donald Trum

[LiberalElite]

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/08/fox_news_built_a_fked_up_frankenstein_dumb_angry_and_divorced_from_facts_now_donald_trump_will_devour_them/

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Fox News –and the conservative media-industrial complex – have created a Frankenstein. His name is Donald Trump, and his political success is now a huge problem for the Republican Party. In so many ways, Trump’s political existence was inevitable. For years, Fox News and the conservative talk radio machine have played to the populist Tea Party id: fomenting fear, demonizing immigrants, and enabling every nativist anxiety imaginable. Now they’re paying the price.
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[libdem4life]

1. It's going to be fun to watch Right Wing Darling,The Donald, while our Bernie is

slowly but surely getting his message out to The People, rather than The Banksters. Also, both are using their own styles of funding...not corporate. Interesting times.

[Angry Dragon]

2. I believe Jeb will end up on top

[jeff47]

4. He lacks a billionaire backer. That's going to hurt in the Republican primary.

Walker also took over the space Jeb! was supposed to occupy.

It's not going to be easy for Jeb! to actually win.

[Angry Dragon]

5. he will get the bush cronies

and Walker has destroyed Wisconsin and that will be hard to defend

[jeff47]

6. Because desolation caused by Bush cronies is so defensible. (nt)

[Angry Dragon]

7. It is my opinion that all bushes since Prescott have Nazi blood running through their veins

[brewens]

3. I see some of my conservative friend on FB on the Trump clownwagon. Totally predictable.

It was like this last time. Everytime new scum floated to the top, they had a new favorite! I can't remember the order but it was Newt, then it was Cain and so on... Bush is doing his best to not be the one but it wouldn't surprise me. It all depends on where the big money decides to go.

[hifiguy]

8. I posted this on DU in November 2012

Reposted here for total relevance:

"t is now readily apparent to anyone living in the reality based world that the Republican party now resembles nothing so much as the last act of a Frankenstein movie. You know how it goes - Doctor Frankenstein creates a monster from mis-matched cadaver parts and a criminal mind and proceeds to imbue it with a sort of artificial life. In our little scenario the part of Doctor F. is played by Faux News, Rove,, the Kochroach brothers, Sheldon Adelson and their ilk. The monster is played by the religulously insane, the Randians and the tealiban.

The problem is always the same in Frankenstein movies: the monster winds up running amok, causing all sorts of holy hell, often killing a few villagers in the process. Eventually said villagers wise up and head for the good doctor's castle, let's call it the Republican party, with pitchforks and torches, to end the havoc. Which is the point we are at today.

So what is Doctor Frankenstein to do? The monster is now knocking down the castle around his ears and the mob is at the gates. Does he kill the monster? If so, how? Does he blow up the castle and run for his life, in the probably vain hope that he can escape from the furious mob and that the monster will be killed? If he stays, the monster will knock down the castle and kill him. "