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GOP in Trump Trap - the future of the party hangs in the balance From: ELI STOKOLS In front-page headlines and television interviews, he is increasingly being compared to Hitler. Jeb Bush called him “unhinged.” Dick Cheney said his proposed ban on Muslim immigrants “goes against everything we stand for and believe in as a country.” Donald Trump has done it again. In asserting Monday that the U.S. should ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., Trump forayed further into the cynical demagoguery that has kept him atop the polls for months. Once again, he has turned the Republican primary fight upside down. Once again, he is provoking extreme reactions—from supporters and detractors alike. But this time, both Republicans and Democrats said that the fate of the GOP is at stake. At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said the candidate’s proposed anti-Muslim travel ban was “materially different” from previous remarks, so much so that they would disqualify him to be president. He scolded the GOP field broadly for being "cowed by Trump" and argued that candidates who are reluctant to stand up to him "have no business serving as president of the United States themselves." At the Pentagon, officials said the type of rhetoric that portrays the war against ISIL as a war against the Muslim faith poses a national security threat. "Anything that tries to bolster the ISIL narrative that the United States is somehow at war with Islam is contrary to our values and contrary to our national security,’’ said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid went further, blaming the Republican Party for harboring the latent xenophobia that Trump's campaign is exploiting. "Donald Trump is standing on a platform of hate that the Republican Party built for him," Reid tweeted. "Racism has long been prevalent in Republican politics. Only difference now is that Trump is saying out loud what other Rs merely suggest." Yet in spite of Trump's rhetoric that now calls for internment camps in time of war, republicans continue to say they will support Trump if he wins the nomination. They are caught in a trap of their own creation. If they disassociate themselves from Trump, they risk that Trump's supporters will leave the party. |
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12/8/2015 3:43 pm |
He is no Hitler. Mussolini, maybe.
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12/9/2015 3:09 am |
I heard a few people on CNN say that if Trump doesn't get the Repub nomination and runs as an Independent, then the Repubs will lose the election. How does that work? Repub. Congressman David Jolly said in front of Congress that he is calling for Trump to drop out. The White House Press Secretary says Trump's Islamophobia disqualifies him from being President. Trump is still advocating a ban on Muslims, which is so ridiculous in the first place because all a Muslim would have to say at the border is that they are a Christian.
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12/9/2015 5:36 am |
I saw a clip of The Donald's rant online. What struck me was his remark that the authorities have to figure out why the US is hated and targeted. It amazes me that any intelligent America still doesn't know the answer to that. Rand Paul seems to know.
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12/9/2015 8:52 am |
Don thanks to Trump's latest rant, the hijab of a 6 yr old Muslim girl was ripped off her. Also a dead animal was thrown at a mosque.
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12/9/2015 11:48 am |
Sorry for all the replies Don but I just find it so heartbreaking to think of all the Syrian refugees. They had to flee from such a crisis situation, then try to adjust to refugee camps, then the ones that finally get accepted and shipped off to their new homes in North America.........imagine how these poor people will feel about the horrible comments directed towards Syrian refugees from Trump and other Repub candidates.
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