The Real Reason The G.O.P Is Afraid of Donald Trump

Today America woke up to find that the new Republican Nominee for President is none other than Donald Trump; but did the country actually “wake up”? Is that the right word? Because I feel like I’m in a nightmare.

I always imagined that, on the day Donald Trump was elected as the Republican Nominee, I would walk outside to see every single person fucking a kangaroo in the street with their hair on fire. That didn’t seem to be happening this morning. Everything seemed normal, which is worse.

I can’t begin to re-hash the number of political atrocities Donald Trump has stood at the center of leading up to last week, when he refused to disavow the endorsement of David Duke, former “Grand Wizard” of the KKK. By the way, suuuper gay title for a guy who hates homosexuality. Grand Wizard? Who are you kidding?

I won’t pretend to be shocked by Trump taking three days to only KIND of disavow Duke’s endorsement with his three-word statement, “I disavow, okay?” as if he were about to follow up with “Now GET OUT OF MY ROOM, MOM.” What I am shocked about was the media taking literally 24 hours to digest that jaw-dropping half-truth cop-out and moving on like nothing happened.

To be fair, in this particular election, the media is used to outrageous news with an expiration date of approximately 24 hours. But how is it possible that not one news organization was able to ask more about what this endorsement from the KKK meant? To ask more of either Trump or Chris Christie, who in his own endorsement of Trump only a day earlier, had proven himself to be the only politician more desperate to win than Jeb Bush.

How is it that no one asked Trump the all-important question of WHY he thinks his message resonates with leaders of white supremacist groups like the KKK? How is it that no journalist has demanded an answer to that question, either from Trump or David Duke (who I imagine lives in a hole in a field somewhere, or possibly under the floorboards of Trumps apartment so he can whisper to Trump in his dreams)?

The leaders of the Republican party have rallied around Marco Rubio as if running away from it’s own reflection; which is to say, it’s voters. The same voters who have rallied around Trump and his unconstitutional & racist promise to “ban all Muslims” from the United States of America.

The Republican party isn’t as divided as the media proclaims it to be. It’s simply that one half of Republicans- the half that we’ve named “The Establishment”- can’t bear to look at their voters or their leading candidate as a reflection of the beliefs that their party now stands for. They can’t stand looking in the mirror to see Donald Trump staring back at them.