Up until now I had been willing to place all the blame for the rise of The Donald on the idiocy and incompetence of the Republican Party. This is not unreasonable given their much deserved reputation as the stupid party.
The Daily Beast offers an alternative theory, Democrats and the Left made Trump:
“… the pestilence that is the Trump campaign is the result of a conglomeration of political, academic, media, and cultural elites who for decades have tried to act as the arbiters of acceptable public debate and shut down any political expression from Americans with whom they disagree … To understand Trump’s seemingly effortless seizure of the public spotlight, forget about programs, and instead zero in on the one complaint that seems to unite all of the disparate angry factions gravitating to him: political correctness … this is happening not because of an overly rightist GOP, but because American liberals, complacently turning away from the excesses of the left and eviscerating their own moderate wing, have damaged the two-party system to the point that an unhinged billionaire demagogue is raking in support from people who are now more afraid of leftists controlling the Justice Department than they are of Putin or ISIS.”
I like this, however, it does not absolve the Republicans of their sins. There is plenty of blame to go around.
Bonus: Trump is now making blowjob jokes at Mitt Romney.
H/T: Sebastain.
Each debate is a new low and a bigger unprecedented disgrace than the last. This man has dragged the Republican Party into a smoking hole in the ground. A scorched earth tear of destruction. My heart is broken.