Republicans are captives in the tRump cult of personality

This is one of the quotable quotes attributed to President Herbert Hoover, who is often referred to as one of America's worst leaders, because he did nothing to prevent the nation from entering the Great Depression:  “There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure -- that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.”― Herbert Hoover, president from March 1929 to March 1933.  His administration was succeeded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Yet, in the world of otherwise inspiring American presidential quotes, Donald Trump's (aka TFG's) polluting contribution is this:

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Opinion echo letter published in Bakersfield.com in California:

I have to comment on the Republican Party's wrong minded support for the most cruel and anti-American president in the history of the United States. 

In our short American history, we have never had a president who divided our country with his racist statements about Mexicans being nothing but a bunch of murderers and rapists. He tried to undermine our election process by hiring false electors, and he continues his claims of a rigged or stolen election results. 

He incited a violent insurrection that tried to prevent a procedure of Congress confirming the 2020, election by starting a seditious riot, which resulted in the deaths of police officers and the destruction of government property.

The Republican Party once stood for morals and justice; it is the party of Abraham Lincoln. Now the extremist Republicans have turned out to be party of division, destruction and of Donald Trump. 

Rep. Liz Cheney post on social media. A follower named Delone Taylor commented, "A class act". 

Please heed the words of a true American hero, Liz Cheney. She will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office.

"Republicans cannot be loyal to Donald Trump and to the Constitution,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the House Jan. 6 panel, said of the GOP’s future in a June 29, speech at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

— William Guerrero, Bakersfield, California

Cheney is the Republicans’ best hope for ending the cult of Trump

"I never thought I would live to see the day when the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, the two George Bushes and other patriotic Republicans would bow down to a defeated authoritarian leader who stubbornly refuses to accept his election loss. A defeated leader who considers himself above the law and has only contempt for the institutions and norms that made America great in the first place."

Was Trump the Chump "set up" yet again? What goes around comes around

I'm not sure anyone has checked the identity of the questioner who brought out even more Trumponian racist phobias this week.

On Thursday (while in New Hampshire) Trump was asked a truly horrible question by a man in the audience who was wearing a white t-shirt with "Trump" printed in black.

"We have a problem in this country, it’s called Muslims" said the questioner. "Our current president is one. We know he’s not even an American. We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That’s my question, when can we get rid of them?”


Surprise, surprise! Donald Trump was caught in yet another offensive ethnic bruhaha during the "town hall" meeting from the questioner. But, was the buzz-saw Trump ran into a set up, or a deserved "what goes around comes around" situation?

Donald Trump took to his favorite social media, on Twitter on Saturday morning, to respond to criticism on his failure to correct a man who called President Barack Obama a Muslim.

In four tweets, the real estate mogul and US presidential candidate, also an unexplainable front-runner in early Republican polls for the GOP nomination, defended himself for not correcting the audience member at a New Hampshire town hall. He began his "Tweets", opening the series with, “Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don't think so!”

Yet, I believe a person who wants to be the leader of the free world must act like a statesman and thereby bring forth the truth. 

Indeed, "Trump the Chump" had a moral obligation to stand up for the President of the United States. "Trump the Chump" needed to state facts, but he did not do so.  

Obviously, nobody was expecting a Trumponian endorsement of President Obama, because he wants to win the White House for his own ego development. Nevertheless, facts about President Obama's religion and nationality are indisputable. President Obama is a Christian and he was born in the United States. All Trump needed to do was to correct the harassing questioner and all would've been water under the political bridge by now. Nevertheless, Trumponian ego prevailed and he, therefore, missed a leadership moment.

In my opinion, Trump deserved the question he avoided answering during the Town Hall Q & A.  For several years, Trump has stoked the coals of "birtherism", claiming President Obama was not born in the USA because his father was from Ghana.  

Consequently, Trump deserved the horrible question from the yet to be named questioner. Trumponian hate rhetoric had primed the racist question. "Trumponianisms", in fact, inadvertently invited the questioner's outrageous assumption and indefensible question.

Trump  has led his followers to believe in his ridiculous conspiracy theories about Mexicans, about President Obama's religion and nationality and even about the evidence based value of vaccines to prevent communicable diseases.  

Regardless of the motivation behind Trump the Chump's incendiary New Hampshire questioner, the racist statements he has accumulated are providing a preponderance of evidence to nix the entertainment attraction of his outrageous presidential candidacy.

Trump represents the "what goes around comes around" proverb, because of his racist based campaign to be president.  His stump speeches have stoked racism, so he must figure out how to squirm out of the web he created.  Or maybe not.

In fact, Trump might do well to finally bow out of the 2016 presidential GOP race, because his "what goes around comes around" reputation is badly branding the entire Republican party.