This is how a suicidal political party behaves
If devious Democratic operatives had conspired last year to sabotage the Republican Party by poisoning its already troubled relationship with young voters and Latinos and other minorities, they could not have devised anything nearly so effective as what the GOP came up with on its own.
Trick Republicans into nominating Donald Trump for president? Preposterous!
Who could have foreseen that Republicans would embrace someone whose demeanor and positions are perfectly designed to destroy the party's already uneasy relationship with a generation of young voters, most of whom are comfortable with their country's growing diversity and social liberalism? Who might have predicted the GOP nominee would be a clownish, serially bankrupt real estate developer who branded Mexican immigrants "rapists" and demands a ban on Muslim immigration?
Sensible Republicans realize that this is not a bad dream. It's an existential threat to their party.
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