It seems to me... [View all]
...that the present political predicament, that the Republicans have put our nation in, has been a good time in the making.
It began with the war and the huge blunder by George W Bush, and coupled with the massive deficit spending, it drove a lot of Republicans to leave their Party and join the "Tea Party". They felt they had been betrayed. They felt that they had been lied to. They felt almost embarrassed by the Republican Party incompetence.
Many in the "Tea Party" movement were quite libertarian. It was a motley crew of Republicans.
And when they felt betrayed and lied to, with the last Republican Senate and House, they gravitated toward the persona and message of Donald Trump. They liked their guns and they wanted a wall built around Mexico. They became loud and threatening. Many citizens stepped back to take a second look. And they did not like what they saw.
The Republican Party establishment disavowed him. Paul Ryan told his members to follow their own conscience. The cat got Mitch McConnell's tongue - he just doesn't want to talk about it at all.
The polls, for what they are worth, are saying that Trump's "unfavorables" have gone up to 70%. That is across the board, across all Parties.
The Republicans have created a dilemma of their choice and they see that they only have two choices: 1) Get behind Trump and follow him over the cliff, or 2) Divorce themselves from Trump because he is not a "true conservative". Either choice is very painful.
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