Dear GOP,
You're getting exactly what you deserve. 8 years of petty criticisms of the President, made up threats about immigrants being evil incarnate, the god awful racism not so cleverly disguised as constitutional loyalty (looking at you Birthers), the crusade against education/intellectualism, and the need for your base to be afraid of everything (even their own shadows because they're black) has finally culminated in this absolute farce of a Presidential campaign. For the first time in our history, we may end up with 3 major political parties in this country because I don't see how moderate Republicans can possibly reconcile their views with their Presidential nominee and his minions.
Trump supporters, I want you to take a good long look at your candidate. I mean a real look. Think about the reasons you support him. It certainly isn't about policy, he hasn't presented one that wouldn't cost more money than it saves. It's not because of his business acumen. It doesn't exist. Ask Atlantic City, NJ. It's not because he's not a criminal like "Crooked Hillary". She's been cleared of every charge leveled at her by every single Republican-led tribunal/witch hunt the GOP can think of. Trump, on the other hand, is still in the midst of multiple lawsuits involving possible fraud. Oh, and he might be a child rapist. Not kidding. Is it his superior values? The values that he thinks permits him to routinely insult anyone who disagrees with him? Oh I know, "he tells it like it is!" Except when he's talking about having met Vladimir Putin and then says that he didn't. Or that he saw a video of Obama personally paying the Iranians and then he says he was mistaken. Maybe he was straight shooting when he said he would build that wall around us and then admitted he wouldn't? The #NeverTrump Republicans, who I respect, though I disagree with their vision, at least had the spine to stand up for their principles. The rest of the party leadership simply fell in line behind this pompous, entitled, ignorant windbag and it may have not only cost them this election but their party's future. Among voters younger than 30, Trump is polling 4th, behind Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), and Jill Stein (Green Party). Think about that. The nominee for the 2nd biggest party in the country is polling behind 2 people most of the country has. never. heard. of. The 18-year-olds who are voting for the first time this election are looking at your nominee as the representation of your party and would rather vote for 2 people who are almost guaranteed to lose. Most people stick with the first party they vote for and the upcoming landslide is probably going to render your party irrelevant for the next 50 years. As much as I despise Trump and what the GOP has become, that isn't a good thing.
You're getting exactly what you deserve. 8 years of petty criticisms of the President, made up threats about immigrants being evil incarnate, the god awful racism not so cleverly disguised as constitutional loyalty (looking at you Birthers), the crusade against education/intellectualism, and the need for your base to be afraid of everything (even their own shadows because they're black) has finally culminated in this absolute farce of a Presidential campaign. For the first time in our history, we may end up with 3 major political parties in this country because I don't see how moderate Republicans can possibly reconcile their views with their Presidential nominee and his minions.
Trump supporters, I want you to take a good long look at your candidate. I mean a real look. Think about the reasons you support him. It certainly isn't about policy, he hasn't presented one that wouldn't cost more money than it saves. It's not because of his business acumen. It doesn't exist. Ask Atlantic City, NJ. It's not because he's not a criminal like "Crooked Hillary". She's been cleared of every charge leveled at her by every single Republican-led tribunal/witch hunt the GOP can think of. Trump, on the other hand, is still in the midst of multiple lawsuits involving possible fraud. Oh, and he might be a child rapist. Not kidding. Is it his superior values? The values that he thinks permits him to routinely insult anyone who disagrees with him? Oh I know, "he tells it like it is!" Except when he's talking about having met Vladimir Putin and then says that he didn't. Or that he saw a video of Obama personally paying the Iranians and then he says he was mistaken. Maybe he was straight shooting when he said he would build that wall around us and then admitted he wouldn't? The #NeverTrump Republicans, who I respect, though I disagree with their vision, at least had the spine to stand up for their principles. The rest of the party leadership simply fell in line behind this pompous, entitled, ignorant windbag and it may have not only cost them this election but their party's future. Among voters younger than 30, Trump is polling 4th, behind Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), and Jill Stein (Green Party). Think about that. The nominee for the 2nd biggest party in the country is polling behind 2 people most of the country has. never. heard. of. The 18-year-olds who are voting for the first time this election are looking at your nominee as the representation of your party and would rather vote for 2 people who are almost guaranteed to lose. Most people stick with the first party they vote for and the upcoming landslide is probably going to render your party irrelevant for the next 50 years. As much as I despise Trump and what the GOP has become, that isn't a good thing.
Look, the truth is that the core values of the GOP aren't that crazy. It's founded in the idea that people can take care of themselves if the government should just get out of the way and let us work. Neighbor helping neighbor instead of depending on handouts from Washington. And there are valid criticisms of our current system. Money in politics is a problem. Even Bernie Sanders agreed with Republicans on that. NAFTA was a disaster for the American worker and there are many non-college educated people who need work. But too many times those frustrations tend to be expressed as outright racism when the reality is the answers to your frustrations are a lot more complicated than "blame the non-whites" Our issues can't be boiled down to a few angry tweets and an agenda that's stuck in the nostalgia of yesterday's America. On a personal note, I'm part of the first generation of African Americans who full rights as a citizen are legally recognized by our government, these are the good old days for me! The world has changed. You can thank your conservative news outlets for not telling you just how much and what you can do to keep up instead of feeding you a steady diet of things to hate and fear. If you've been eating up Fox News, The Blaze, and Breitbart for the better part of the last decade, all it's gotten you is a pseudo-intellectual who claims to be your voice but has never been anything but an elitist 1% his entire life. He's never not been rich so how can he possibly be your voice if he doesn't even speak your language? Trump is the literal embodiment of the ugliness that has infected the principles of the Republican Party. I would wear out my knuckles on my keyboard if I listed the times he's proven that he's not just a bad candidate but a genuinely bad person. It's ironic that it took him slandering a Gold Star Muslim family, a religion he's vowed to ban from our country, to get people to finally see it's him that doesn't represent American values. His nomination is direct evidence that the Republican Party is broken. So broken that they're willing to trot out a racist demagogue in the vague hopes that they can re-take the White House by appealing to the very worst American fears. We've reached the point where the house they've built is no longer safe for any American to reside in. The roof is leaking, the foundation is shot. The lessons of 2012, which called for inclusion and moderation, have been outright rejected and the results have been predictably disastrous. If the party leadership continues to ignore the evolution of our country, its only natural that America will eventually ignore them. Completely.
...Til Next Week!
You can read more about the "Growth and Opportunity Project" that was supposed to transform the Republican Party into a more inclusive party here.
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