Time to Stop Blaming Trump

[JCMach1]

Ultimately, he is what he is. It's awful, but he is genuinely who he is.

Instead, it's time to focus on those people who enabled him and who ultimately support most of his views and policies: the Republican Party.

The problem is not that all Republicans think the way this guy does. The problem is that they’ve been riding this tiger for a long time. They’ve been feeding their base all kinds of crazy for years, primarily for political expedience … -Pres. Barack Obama http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/obama-hits-gop-for-creating-trump-with-all-kinds-of-crazy.html

[Stand and Fight]

1. We'll stop blaming Trump after he's defeated on November 8th.

[JCMach1]

2. He's done, time to tie the albatross where it belongs...

[Stand and Fight]

3. He's only done after the votes have been counted. No sense in getting over confident.

Or have people learned nothing after 2000 and 2004?

[JCMach1]

5. I don't seem to recall anyone being overconfident then... in fact I recall a lot of nailbiting

However, as the POTUS has done, it's time to connect the dots, tie the albatross... however you want to metaphor it.


Trump is the nasty, nasty symptom... not the disease. However, that still makes him an inflamed pustule...

[renate]

4. I think you're right

Besides, now that the election isn't even close any more, I'm not blaming him for anything--I'm thrilled that he is who he is. Given that people like him have apparently always existed in large numbers (I'd had no idea 40% of the US population were so awful), I'm very very grateful that he's such a terrible person and such a terrible candidate. Can you imagine if he'd been slick and glib and not so overtly rotten? If he'd held the same views but had managed to disguise himself as a viable candidate?

But you're right. It's not his fault that he attracts slavish devotion from racists and idiots. If they'd rejected him, he'd have gone away.

[JCMach1]

7. sick and glib... you just described Ted Cruz

And yes, they were close to nominating him as well.

[okaawhatever]

6. I don't think we need to stop blaming Trump so much as just spread the blame to all participants. I

don't think Trump's rigged election claim would seem even remotely logical if it weren't for the GOP's years-long efforts to disenfranchise voters of the Democratic persuasion. I don't think Trump's suggestion of building a wall would have resonated if it weren't for years of immigrant bashing, right wing militia groups patrolling the border, and an unfettered wave of propaganda and misinformation in the right wing media.

I won't stop blaming Trump, because his policies and beliefs need to be tied into the Republican party better. Right now the GOP are acting like Trump is an anomaly, and that may be true, be they created the conditions for this and that can't go unanswered.

I'll take the "Spread the Blame" approach.

[JCMach1]

9. Well, there is a lot to spread

[Raster]

8. tRump's 25 top enablers and collaborators...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/19/the-unforgivables-trump-s-top-collaborators.html

[geek tragedy]

10. plenty of blame from the top to the very, very bottom--the millions of racist dumbfuck losers

who are eagerly supporting him.

[longship]

11. But I don't like Spam!!!

(To Trump adherents, this is a metaphor.)

[Philothea]

12. Donald just thinks he is an original

but he is the product of these assholes after a feast of sun dried tomatoes... the bowel movement comes to the pulpit as the pretty face!