The Trumpularity 0
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has had enough.
For the sake of the Republican Party and the nation — for god’s sake — enough. Enough altogether. Trump should immediately relinquish his nomination and allow, for a short month at least, the country to have a campaign that’s closer to representing its legitimate interests and actual divisions.
No nation should toy with electing a leader who beholds more than half of its population with disrespect. No party should be represented by a candidate whose ersatz positions bear such little coherence with its own. And no one should countenance a man who declares that, because he’s a star, he can prey on women, regardless of their consent, and speak of grabbing them by the genitalia.
That’s just the beginning.
The reason I didn’t expect to see such an editorial has nothing whatsoever to do with the Star-Tribune. Both major parties have been known to nominate candidates that were less than ideal. Nevertheless, I would have never expected to see such an editorial in a major mainstream newspaper regarding a major party nominee in a United States Presidential election. Full stop.
The Republican Party has achieved the Trumpularity.
Or something.
I have one quibble. When the Star-Tribune says, “For the sake of the Republican Party,” it neglects to mention that Donald Trump perfectly represents today’s Republican Party.
I could say more, but words fail me.
