Does Trump spell the end of the GOP?

[struggle4progress]

BY DANIEL T. RODGERS
10/8/16 AT 9:30 AM

... The consummate anti-politics politician, Trump has not even a term on a school board or zoning commission on his résumé. His corporations, answerable for the most part to no shareholders beyond his own partners and family members, are not arenas of collective deliberation either.

He is a figure almost entirely made by his gifts for self-promotion and enabled by a culture in which the celebrity industry now far exceeds the place of government in popular consciousness ...

... in Trump’s ego-driven rhetoric there is only “I.” The unapologetic self-referentiality that Trump displays is his own personal creation, of course. But the fact that his indifference to evidence-based social data, his detachment from any social movement larger than his own polling and viewership figures, and his failure to offer any policy gesture beyond his own insistence that, whatever the problem may be, he will “take care of it” did not drop him from consideration at the primary process’s beginning speaks to an erosion of ideas and language that runs deeper than Trump itself ...

Whatever other legacy Trump leaves behind, he has already opened the gates to a fury at women, African-Americans, Hispanics and religious minorities that had been largely closeted since the civil rights victories of the 1960s and 1970s. He has made a new style of “America First” isolationism respectable for the first time since the 1930s ...

http://www.newsweek.com/does-rise-trump-spell-end-gop-506894

[sarae]

1. God, I hope so.

I really, really, really hope so.

Party of Idiots.

[louis-t]

2. He has no concept of 'public service'.

His only concern is what HE can get out of his campaign.

[Stargleamer]

3. No

4 years from now they'll be nominating either Rubio or Kasich and be back to their plutocratic ways.

[Chemisse]

4. There are still perhaps 40 percent of voters who would vote for ANY Republican candidate.

if they get someone who is even slightly better than Trump (for next time - they are totally screwed for now), they are back in business.

[Thinkingabout]

5. When I think back when Trump was saying things would sink other candidates and the GOP 'splained

it away and said "it is Trump saying what is on his mind", why should anyone who has defended Trump be surprised? He thinks he does not have any limits. When he jumped up and said Mexicans are rapist, etc. and Muslims should be banned from the US, the GOP protected him. When he made disparaging remarks about blacks, GOP protected him. When he made disparaging remarks about women, the GOP protected him. Now this is the candidate who they protected.

I have stated many times if Trump was the DNC candidate I would not be able to vote for him. I am with Hillary because she is qualified and fit to be president, Trump is not qualified and he is unfit to be president or much else in my opinion.

[Zorro]

6. Trump is wearing a suicide vest and daring establishment Republicans to do something about him