GOP brought this plague on itself
By Leonard Pitts
November 28, 2015 | http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/o...e46766275.html
Even by his standards, it was an astounding performance.
Over the course of just two days last weekend, Donald Trump spewed bigotry, venom and absurdity like a sewer pipe, spewed it with such utter disregard for decency and factuality that it was difficult to know what to criticize first.
Shall we condemn him for retweeting a racist graphic on Sunday filled with wildly inaccurate statistics from a non-existent source (“Whites killed by blacks — 81 percent”)?
Or shall we hammer him for tacitly encouraging violence when an African-American protester was beaten up at a Trump rally in Birmingham on Saturday? “Maybe he should have been roughed up,” Trump told Fox “News.”
Over the last several months, including this one, it seems like literally everything spoken and written by Donald Trump has been covered. And it all seems to call for a response from people who are willing, and/or are wanting, to respond. I have been different. I have been looking at this as one candidate, Donald Trump, doing his best to win the 2016 presidential nomination from his Republican Party. So, for those who have/had considered Everything Donald Trump to be of great importance, this seems dismissive of me. But, when you try and assess this accurately, isn't it true that who a political party nominates for president of the United States makes a statement about both the party and their people (who voted in the caucuses and primaries for their party's nominee)?
By Leonard Pitts
November 28, 2015 | http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/o...e46766275.html
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Even by his standards, it was an astounding performance.
Over the course of just two days last weekend, Donald Trump spewed bigotry, venom and absurdity like a sewer pipe, spewed it with such utter disregard for decency and factuality that it was difficult to know what to criticize first.
Shall we condemn him for retweeting a racist graphic on Sunday filled with wildly inaccurate statistics from a non-existent source (“Whites killed by blacks — 81 percent”)?
Or shall we hammer him for tacitly encouraging violence when an African-American protester was beaten up at a Trump rally in Birmingham on Saturday? “Maybe he should have been roughed up,” Trump told Fox “News.”
Over the last several months, including this one, it seems like literally everything spoken and written by Donald Trump has been covered. And it all seems to call for a response from people who are willing, and/or are wanting, to respond. I have been different. I have been looking at this as one candidate, Donald Trump, doing his best to win the 2016 presidential nomination from his Republican Party. So, for those who have/had considered Everything Donald Trump to be of great importance, this seems dismissive of me. But, when you try and assess this accurately, isn't it true that who a political party nominates for president of the United States makes a statement about both the party and their people (who voted in the caucuses and primaries for their party's nominee)?