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50. Symptom or Disease

Trump is uniquely despicable, racist, and corrupt, but he or someone like him is the conclusion of a decades long trend of republican politics.

Republicans have been questioning settled science such as evolution, climate change, CFCs, and even whether cigarettes cause cancer for decades. Their propaganda outlets such as Fox and talk radio lie about objective facts even when there is video. Why should anyone be surprised that their president and spokesmen lie? That line was crossed a long time ago.

Demonization of political opponents was the center of Newt Gingrich's philosophy, but has been a staple of the republican leaders, and their media outlets have called democrats unpatriotic, traitors, weak on crime and terrorism and etc, for decades. Why are they surprised when their leader does the same to any critic even in their party?

The southern strategy, fear of "urban people", Muslims, "Mexicans", "free loaders", have always been a play to racists. Where have the Republican voices been over the decades decrying the racist rhetoric? Why are they now surprised that neo-nazis are running as Republicans openly. Why the surprise that their president is a racist and has racists as his advisers?

I could go on.

On one hand I appreciate when Republicans recognize and tell the truth about who Trump is. But until there is an honest discussion and recognition of how we got here the cancer can't be excised. Pundits like Steve Schmidt (the guy who gave us Sarah Palin) who say that Republicans have become the party or Trump have it wrong. Trump is just the current symptom of the disease.