GOP Is Responsible For White House Reality Show

Since I seem to be on a rant today, I might as well just keep on going. Donald Trump is not an aberration who somehow managed to come in and take over the Republican party. He is a creation of that party and they alone are responsible for him. From Nixon’s Southern strategy and “silent majority”, to the Willie Horton ad for G.H.W. Bush, to the Gingrich revolution, to Fox New,. Trump is the eventual result of that path that the party chose to take. And ever since the Gingrich revolution, the Republican party has been breaking the bonds of democracy in this country in astounding ways – impeaching a President for a personal affair, shutting down the government multiple times, organizing a “riot” to keep votes in Miami-Dade county from being re-counted in the 2000 election, using the Justice Department to impede investigations of Republicans and target Democrats, not giving a hearing to a Supreme Court nominee, and now, apparently, the Republican nominee is refusing to release his tax returns. The press, especially the corporate media, has been entirely complicit in allowing the Republicans to get away with these breaches without paying a significant price. In fact, their usual approach is that “both sides do it”. Well Democrats have not impeached a President, they have not shut down government, they have given fair hearings and a vote to every Supreme Court nominee, and they do release their tax returns. But let’s be clear, the real issue lies within the Republican party and its continual willingness to break the unwritten rules of democratic behavior. And it has led us to this – apparently Donald Trump has been in contact with NBC about continuing to run the Apprentice from the Oval Office if Trump is elected. That is right – Trump had to withdraw from the show during the campaign due to election law; but if he is elected, there is apparently nothing stopping him from continuing to host the show from the Oval Office. And he has actually discussed this with NBC. This is where the Grand Old Party has taken us – to a reality show run out of the White House. And they constantly talk about the integrity of the office, while denigrating any Democratic man or woman who would dare to hold it. For those Republicans who continue to support Donald Trump – yes, I mean you Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell – history is watching and it will not be a kind judge.