The Rise Of Trump Signals The Fall Of The Republican Cabal

by John DeProspo

Today’s Republican cabal leaders (whoever they may be) are stumped by Trump. The deeper the billionaire sticks his foot into his mouth, the higher his approval ratings. The more the mainstream, “real” Republican candidates try to go toe to toe with Trump, the more they get their teeth smashed in. Is there any stopping the Trump Express?
What is happening to the Republican cabal is nothing more than karmic payback. To the eternal delight of Democrats and many Independents, the party that sold its soul a few short years ago to the teabagger crazies, is now reaping what it sowed. Since 2008, the Republican cabal has succumbed to its basest voices for short-term political gain; where compromise became a dirty word; were Barack Obama was the anti-christ-muslim-Kenyan set to destroy all that wingnuts held near and dear. It’s as if the children started running the house … both figuratively and literally!
Whether or not Trump wins the Republican nomination is irrelevant. The damage has been done. The dirty laundry is being aired and that gaggle of mainstream Republican candidates looks weak and pathetic. If Trump becomes the cabal’s pretender nominee, the Republican cabal is cooked. If Trump does not get the nomination, and makes good on his third-party threat, the Democrats win in a landslide … no matter whether the Democratic nominee is Hillary Clinton or SpongeBob Square Pants.
The political pendulum has always swung back and forth; from right to left; from retrenchment to progress. It looks as if the backward arc may have reached its apex and the pendulum is slowing, but surely, moving forward. It is not only the Republican cabal’s bad deal with the devil that is doing them in, however. It’s shear demographics.
Now let’s see. Republicans have alienated gays, blacks, women, Hispanics, Asians, the poor, immigrants, and anyone who believes in science, education, justice, fairness and equality. Who’s left? Basically the very rich; those feeble-minded Fox fans and religio-wingnuts. The problem is there simply aren’t enough of those folks for them to win a national election.
Trump … every liberal, progressive Democrat’s wish come true. RIP Republican cabal.