When Victor Frankenstein was finished creating his monster from the parts of dead bodies, he looked at it in revulsion and fled from it.
The Republican Party, in stitching together a message of anger, hatred and fear, has created its own monster, Donald Trump, and now, in its desperation to flee from the prospect of him as president of the United States, is authoring its own destruction as an American political party.
And why not?
Anger at manufactured indignities, fear of minorities, and hatred of any culture different from white America are the governing philosophies of a leadership so hate-filled and ego-driven as to be both the cause and the instrument of its own destruction.
So, farewell to the Republican Party. You were once great, but your replacement pick for Dwight D. Eisenhower was the criminal, Richard M. Nixon, and with him your party began its inexorable plunge to the bottom. Great men no longer subscribe to your message, and rightly so. You’re stuck with the creature you created out of a decades-long sewing together of ignorance and contempt, a creature whose message of violent ugliness complements perfectly the vacuousness of Republican politics.
