Former ReTHUG Senator Danforth's scathing OP -

[malaise]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-exactly-what-republicans-are-not/2017/08/24/9909a320-8832-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html?utm_term=.df4b52b2e6da
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The Republican Party has a long history of standing for a united country. Theodore Roosevelt raised up the ordinary people of his day and championed their cause against abusive trusts. Dwight Eisenhower used the army to integrate a Little Rock high school. George H.W. Bush signed the most important civil rights legislation in more than a quarter-century, a bill authored by Republican senators. George W. Bush stood before Congress and the nation and defended Muslims after 9/11. Our record hasn’t been perfect. When we have pushed the agenda of the Christian right, we have seemed to exclude people who don’t share our religious beliefs. We have seemed unfriendly to gay Americans. But our long history has been to uphold the dignity of all of God’s people and to build a country welcoming to all.

Now comes Trump, who is exactly what Republicans are not, who is exactly what we have opposed in our 160-year history. We are the party of the Union, and he is the most divisive president in our history. There hasn’t been a more divisive person in national politics since George Wallace.

It isn’t a matter of occasional asides, or indiscreet slips of the tongue uttered at unguarded moments. Trump is always eager to tell people that they don’t belong here, whether it’s Mexicans, Muslims, transgender people or another group. His message is, “You are not one of us,” the opposite of “e pluribus unum.” And when he has the opportunity to unite Americans, to inspire us, to call out the most hateful among us, the KKK and the neo-Nazis, he refuses.

To my fellow Republicans: We cannot allow Donald Trump to redefine the Republican Party. That is what he is doing, as long as we give the impression by our silence that his words are our words and his actions are our actions. We cannot allow that impression to go unchallenged.

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Danforth and others sat by and ignored the party's racism subtle and not subtle since Reagan.
Where was/is his outcry with the suppression of minority votes, the war on drugs, etc.?

[HAB911]

1. deluded myopic nonsense

too little, too late, screw him

[HAB911]

2. Idiots

Trump Divorces the GOP Congress
Republicans need to think of Trump as a political independent.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-divorces-the-gop-congress-1503616084

[Me.]

3. Two Words Danforth

Anita Hill

[chelsea0011]

4. Amen to that

[C_U_L8R]

5. Delusional.

Republicans = Trump.
They've been that way for years.
Since way before old man Potter foreclosed on the Building & Loan.
Danforth is hallucinating.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Trump is you, Danforth.