Trump rallies are evidence of his bizarrre cult attraction fueled by delusional ideation

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley gets a broken ⏰clock award for this comment: Nikki Haley argues Donald Trump is always followed by ‘chaos’ before a large South Carolina crowd (AP report). Donald Trump Is His Own Chaos Whisperer

Chaos on steroids❗ Reported in The New York Times by Katherine Miller*- So, Trump opened his Allentown Pennsylvania rally by presenting a delusional fake news lead. He told theMAGA cult crowd that Israel was under attack, adding that “it would not have happened if we were in office — they know that, we know that, everyone knows that.” Onstage, at rallies over the last year, Trump has done these alt-universe loops in which if the election hadn’t been taken from him, nothing bad would have befallen the world — no embarrassing Afghanistan withdrawal, no Hamas attack on Israel, no Russian invasion of Ukraine, no inflation. Sometimes, with the way Trump talks, he can subtly lock more and more people into his inability to process his 2020, defeat. He does this by pairing his personal misfortune with that of the entire globe. (IOW Trump is detached from reality. Moreover, IMO, he should be receiving psychiatric medical care!)

But, in Allentown on Saturday night, these hypotheticals ended someplace else. When talking about the world being ablaze, Trump told the crowd about something Viktor Orban, the illiberal prime minister of Hungary, had said: “Bring Donald Trump back as president and it’ll all stop.” (👀Frank L. Baum wrote a classic story about delusional behavior like "Bring Trump Back😟😓".....like "follow the yellow brick road....OMG❗)  

As Trump put it, “He said something else, and I wouldn’t say it, I wouldn’t really like the word. ‘China was afraid of Donald Trump, Russia was afraid of Donald Trump, everybody was afraid of Donald Trump’ — I don’t want to say that. I want to say they respected me.”
Quantifying chaos is hard to do, but the last eight years have been some of the most chaotic in decades in American politics. And for the last year, Trump talked a lot about ending all this chaos simply through his resumption of the presidency — a kind of leviathan, superman thing. 

Delusional Trumpzi ideation! 

Before the rally, the Trump campaign played a movie-trailer-esque video that warned of nuclear annihilation. 

There is a theory advanced by some Republicans that Trump’s chaos and unpredictability deter others’ impulsive behavior — that other leaders could not quite read how the United States might respond, so the anxiety provoked by that uncertainty stalled out otherwise bigger and more drastic shifts in the world. After she left the administration, Nikki Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations, framed her and Trump’s approaches to diplomats in the manner of a good-cop-bad-cop routine. “He would, like, ratchet up the rhetoric,” she said in 2018, “and then I would go back to the ambassadors and say, ‘You know, he is pretty upset. I can’t promise you what he is going to do. I’ll tell you, if we do these sanctions, it will keep him from going too far.’”

Trump himself will allude to his own chaos as preventive. Onstage, he sometimes claims he prevented Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine earlier on the strength of personal negotiation in which  Trump threatened a wild action. “‘Vladimir, don’t do it, don’t do it — if you do it, this is what’s going to happen.’ Someday I’ll tell you what I said,” Mr. Trump said at an Iowa rally on October 7. “He said, ‘No way you’ll do that.’ I said, ‘I will. I will; I’ll do it.’ And he didn’t believe me.” (This symptom is like the psychiatric patient who hears voices! There is medication available to treat these delusions.)

Then, in a possibly telling insight into how Trump views politics, he added: “But, he believed me 10 percent! That’s all you needed!” He said the same was true of Xi Jinping and Taiwan — Mr. Xi had believed him 10 percent and “that’s enough.” The idea of Trump injecting just enough creeping doubt or pain into the equation of how a person perceives what he’s saying explains a lot about American political chaos over the last eight years.

When you press on different parts of Trump’s reasoning, you find problems. For one thing, talking to Tucker Carlson last year, Mr. Orban framed his praise the opposite way from what Trump said in Pennsylvania: “The best foreign policy of the recent several decades belongs to him. He did not initiate any new war. He treated nicely the North Koreans and Russia, even the Chinese, you know. He did the policy that was the best one for the Middle East, the Abraham Accords.” And there are real crosscurrents even at Trump rallies: At the Pennsylvania event he opened by saying, “God bless Israel.” But at one point Trump supporters also chanted “Genocide Joe” — the chant about the president’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza and the thousands of Palestinians who’ve died — to which Trump said, “They’re not wrong.”

Since the pandemic began, in particular, it can feel as though we live in a more precarious, interlocking world, where one bad development can threaten even worse ones, like a wider regional conflict in the Middle East. Trump talks a lot about what wouldn’t have happened, but a lot may still happen next year, regardless of whether he or President Biden is elected. (Hey Trumpzi cult❓  Praise Isreal or call their actions Genocide❗ Chaos on steroids.)

Politics involves the art of perception, particularly during campaigns. And Trump (has a Fascist instinct). He knows how perception works — how to build up themes and crush opponents. Those skills have reshaped American politics. But not everything works like that.

One thing he barely talked about on Saturday night was abortion. “Sometimes with Great Events come difficulties,” he posted recently about how he helped end Roe v. Wade, just before announcing that he would leave the issue to the states, rather than pursuing a federal ban. But leaving abortion to the states also doesn’t resolve the issue — one state supreme court can essentially end in vitro fertilization programs, and another can ban abortion in the space of a month.

Indeed, Trump clearly wants this to go away, for people to not talk about it, for voters to just kind of land on a middle ground, quietly. But people have strong beliefs about what abortion law should look like, beliefs that exist outside of Trump, in part because — like war or the pandemic — abortion policy is not one of perception. Abortion is banned or permitted in real life. (Women risk death if they are unable to receive abortion care in emergent pregnancy situations.)

Katherine Miller is a staff writer and editor in The New York Times Opinion

Republicans against Donald Trump must stand up to defend democarcy to put country over party

Signing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a once-in-a-generation investment.

Echo opinion published in The Boston Globe by Kimberly Atkins

Republicans against Trump can banish him with one trip to the ballot box:  If there was ever a moment to really put country over party, it’s now: by voting, just once, for President Biden. 

Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire has a history of speaking frankly about Donald Trump. “He’s (expletive) crazy!” the four-term Republican governor said in 2022 at the Gridiron Club’s dinner roast in Washington.

“I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution,” Sununu continued. “But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

Less than two months ago, as a surrogate for Trump’s GOP primary opponent Nikki Haley, Sununu was still as blunt while speaking at Politico’s Governors Summit. “Assholes come and go,” Sununu quipped. “But America is here to stay.”

Is it?

America as we know it, based on foundational principles such as democracy and respect for the rule of law, may not last another Trump term. Trump left Washington in 2021 as it reeled from the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol that he helped incite in an effort to hold on to power like a dictator. Now he’s plotting his path back by campaigning on a platform of autocracy, promising a dark, dystopian future for the nation that is built on revenge, hatred, destruction, and even violence.

Trump has promised to on Day One free from jail convicted January 6 insurrectionists, whom he calls “hostages.”😡 He said he would task the Justice Department with locking up his political enemies. He promised to sic the military on American cities. He praises and sidles up to “strongman” leaders like Kim Jong Un of North Korea, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Viktor Orbán of Hungary. His massive debt and carelessness with the nation’s sensitive secrets make him a severe national security threat. He is the polar opposite of what an 

American leader should be.The tone of his bid to return to the White House is summed up by his Truth Social video post featuring an image of President Biden hog-tied in the back of a truck.

Yet among Trump’s endorsers is Sununu, who promised even as a backer of Haley to vote for the eventual Republican presidential nominee. I guess that applies whether that nominee is a lying, insurrection-spurring, election-denying, conspiracy theory-peddling, fraud-committing, criminally charged, rule of law-defying despot or not.

This decision may defy all rules of common sense, but it unfortunately doesn’t defy conventional political wisdom. 

Though Sununu prides himself in — and has been lauded for — his bipartisan approach to governing, he’s still a Republican. And to him, a GOP win is a win.

Here’s a wake-up call for Sununu and other prominent Republicans who have rebuked Trump and Trumpism but have stopped short of promising to do what is necessary in 2024 to stop him: If there was ever a moment to publicly embrace country over party, it’s now.

This presidential election is not just a contest between a Democrat and a Republican. It is not, as some members of the press seem to insist, a choice between two unpopular old men. It is a choice between democracy and its destruction.

To quote Trump directly, “You either have a country, or you don’t.” With Biden, you may not like his policies, but you have a country. If he is defeated, all bets are off.

If GOP Trump foes truly want to end his (strangling❗) reign, they can make a limited, one-time vow to help defeat him in November by voting for Biden, and — perhaps more important — urging others to do so as well.👍

I’m not suggesting Sununu forge this path alone. That would just ensure the kind of banishment he is clearly seeking to avoid. I reached out to Sununu for comment, but got none as of press time.

But this message is for all democracy-respecting Republicans who understand the stakes but have stopped short of embracing the only clear solution. I’m talking to you, Senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Also to Haley and other former GOP primary rivals like former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, and the very man whose life Trump endangered on January 6, former vice president Mike Pence.

I’m hoping that former Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who so valiantly worked to ensure the American people and the Department of Justice got the real facts about what happened on Jan. 6, will step up. And given the strength that comes with numbers, that the balance is tipped to allow others to follow suit.

I’m heartened that the group No Labels dropped its third-party presidential ticket bid. Pushing past partisanship, as Sununu does, is a valiant goal, but it is out of step with the reality of the 2024, election if it just helps Trump win. 

And as for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his tin-hat campaign: Shame on you for threatening the nation for which members of your family paid the ultimate price.

The moment Biden is inaugurated into his second term, Republicans and activists can go right back to opposing Biden policies with all the vigor they can muster. That’s how democracy works. But it works only if democracy lives. One vote — just one vote — can help save it.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a columnist for the Globe. She may be reached at kimberly.atkinsstohr@globe.com. Follow her @KimberlyEAtkins.

Donald Trump is not qualified to run for any political office and should be taken off the ballots

Echo opinion letter published in The Washington Post:

As an independent and former Republican, I believe that once the wheels start coming off the Trump bus, it will happen at a quick pace. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley should remain in the race for the Republican nomination for president. 

Former president Donald Trump is an adjudicated financial fraud in three recent trials, was ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $83 million for defaming her, and is facing 91 criminal charges. 

Voters are owed these trials before the election. 

Also, I will not vote for anyone who supports Trump for president. Full stop❗💥

Keith Wilson, in Charlotte North Carolina

Trumpzi campaign rallies are dangerous reenactments of evil NAZi beer hall rallies in the 1930s

Donald Trump is certifiably nuts!  He is so bat shit desperate crazy to destroy his opponents that he invents conspiracy theories about them, and nobody is pushing back on this dangerous idiocy!

Shortly after debuting a new racist name for Nikki Haley, Donald Trump debuted an entirely new identity and life history for her as well. During his campaign rally on Friday night in Concord, New Hampshire, the 77-year-old former president briefly misremembered who he blames for the insurrection he incited on January 6, 2021 — naming Haley when he meant to say then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:  (Idiot❗) Trump Confuses Nikki Haley With Nancy Pelosi

By Chas Danner, staff editor at Intelligencer

“You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley,” he continued. “Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people”

Trump is certifiably completely crazy and continues to decompensate!

None of that is true, regardless of whose name Trump inserts. And for the record, while Nancy Pelosi was trying to avoid the pro-Trump mob and regain control of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Nikki Haley was, like many, watching in horror from afar. (She also, like many, incorrectly assumed the events of that day would mean the end of Donald Trump’s political career, then later softened, then later re-hardened, her stances on Trump and his culpability.)

So, the mixup wasn’t Trump’s only misremembering of the week. At a rally on Wednesday night in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Trump literally spun a whale of a tale while once again bragging about how well he once did on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment — which is designed to test for signs of cognitive decline and dementia (but Trump clearly also thinks of as an intelligence test.) Reports the Washington Post:

“I think it was 35, 30 questions,” the former president said in Portsmouth, N.H., about the test, which he said involved a few animal identification queries. “They always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this, or that — a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?’ Okay. And that goes on for three or four [questions] and then it gets harder and harder and harder.”

The only problem: The creator of the test in question, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, said it has never included the specific combination of animals described by Trump in any of its versions over the years. 

In fact, Ziad Nasreddine, the Canadian neurologist who invented the test, said the assessment — intended primarily to test for signs of dementia or other cognitive decline — has never once included a drawing of a whale. 🐋 😵😲😂

Of course, Nikki Haley famously called for “mandatory mental-competency tests for politicians over 75 years old” at the beginning of her presidential campaign.

Trump also repeated his mental fitness attacks on Joe Biden again, claiming the 81-year-old president “can’t put two sentences together.” (Biden’s reelection campaign, from its own glass house, already tweeted out a video of Trump’s Haley/Pelosi mashup.)

Republicans who attend the Trumpzi  rallies are renactors, who are reliving the 1930's Beer Hall Nazi Rallies.

Nazi beer hall rallies in the 1930s.

Trump infused political oxygen will become toxic for Republicans. The GOP candidates must escape into cleaner air.

Why Does Every Republican Candidate Sound the Same?

Echo opinion essay by Katherine Miller published in The New York Times:  There’s a late-summer-fade quality to the Republican primary contest, as if the candidates are passively sliding into the inevitability of a Biden-Trump rematch.

Donald Trump and a variety of other people see the animating factor here as the indictments against him. “We need one more indictment to close out this election,” Mr. Trump joked last month. 

This is also the prism through which the other candidates get discussed: that they don’t criticize Mr. Trump much, especially over his indictments. (HELLO? This is political insanity!  If tRumpzi were a democrat, what do you suppose those same Republican "Quislings" would be saying?)

But there’s a bigger and more claustrophobic reality to the fading quality of Ron (dis...) DeSantis and all these other Republicans: It’s as if they constructed their identities as Trump alternatives and ended up all the same.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote this summer that Mr. (dis....) DeSantis can sound generic next to Vivek Ramaswamy: They talk the same way about China and TikTok, about how they will use military force against the cartels in Mexico (even though this really sounds as if we will be going to war with Mexico), about the F.B.I.

Two weeks before Mr. Wallace-Wells was in Iowa watching Mr. Ramaswamy make Mr. (dis...) DeSantis sound generic, I heard Mr. (dis....) DeSantis and Senator Tim Scott use a similar metaphor about the border — houses, which are being broken into — in events 18 hours apart. If we don’t control the border, it might not be our country, Mr. Scott said. We will repel the intrusion with force, Mr. (dis...) DeSantis said. We will finish the wall, they said.

They said what? But wait! Wait! Did Mexico pay for it?

“That’s why you see these things like weaponization of agencies, because nobody’s held them accountable,” Mr. (dis...) DeSantis said. “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired watching the weaponization of the D.O.J. against their political opponents, against pro-life activists,” Mr. Scott said. On Day 1, Mr. (dis...) DeSantis said, we’ll have a new F.B.I. director. The first three things we have to do, Mr. Scott said, are fire Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray. “You’re going to have housecleaning at the Department of Justice,” Mr. (dis...) DeSantis said. “We should actually eliminate every single political appointee in all the Department of Justice,” said Mr. Scott, who wants to “purge” the politicization of the department for the benefit of all Americans. They walked off the stage to the same song (Darius Rucker’s cover of “Wagon Wheel”).

It can be hard to remember what made Mr. Trump distinct eight years ago, because, sadly, it has become the texture of our lives. The 1980s tabloid dimension of his language — weeping mothers, blood and carnage, rot and disease in institutions, brutal action — crushed the antiseptic piety and euphemisms of the post-Bush Republican Party. The lurid, fallen vision of American life that implicitly casts critics as naïve chumps or in on the corruption is the one we still occupy.

Now they all sound kind of like that. Politicians’ impulse to shorthand and flatten major policies and controversies is eternal, but it’s not just that they use similar words. The way these politicians talk takes the old, once-novel Trump themes, aggressive energy and promises and packages them into indoctrination and the administrative state.

At the event in July where Mr. (dis...) DeSantis sounded so like Mr. Scott did the evening before, he was midway through a period that the campaign had signaled would be a reset. At first, speaking to a midday crowd in Iowa, Mr. (dis...) DeSantis ventured onto different ground, talking about economic concerns, the cost of things, debt. But he ended up talking about woke ideology, the administrative state, Disney and all the rest. 

If you spend a few days in New Hampshire, seeing Mr. Ramaswamy here and Mr. (dis...) DeSantis there, or the full field at something like Iowa’s Lincoln Dinner, you can imagine nearly the entire Republican presidential field, hands joined, heads turning at once and saying with one voice, “End the weaponization of the Justice Department.”

This dynamic might be on display in its purest form on the subject of voting and elections, in the way what Mr. Trump cares about flows through the base and becomes the starting premise of what the other candidates talk about. Mr. (dis...) DeSantis runs a state with well-regarded early voting and ballot-counting practices — one where Mr. Trump won twice, along with a bunch of down-ballot Republicans. He transformed widespread voter fraud, an (illusory) concern of Mr. Trump’s, into a unit that would address (rare) instances of voter fraud and arrested a handful of people, some of whom have said they had no reason to believe they couldn’t vote, to prove the point that he takes Mr. Trump’s fake concerns seriously.

Practically every candidacy right now is about Mr. Trump: The protest candidates exist to oppose Mr. Trump; the alternatives basically seem constructed in the negative (Trump but nice, Trump but we’ve got to win the suburbs again, Trump but competent) and grown inside the Trump concerns lab. Here and there, the candidates talk about health care, education costs, the economic changes with artificial intelligence or anything that might be kitchen table — things that exist beyond Mr. Trump’s reach — but it’s amazing how little some of this stuff is emphasized beyond inflation and energy costs.

During the August debate, the Fox (aka "Fake") News moderators put something Nikki Haley said — that trans kids playing girls’ sports is “the women’s issue of our time” — to a few candidates. When they asked Ms. Haley, she barely registered her own line and led with, in what seems to be her real voice: “There’s a lot of crazy, woke things happening in schools, but we’ve got to get these kids reading. If a child can’t read by third grade, they’re four times less likely to graduate high school.” She can oscillate a bit, in and out of past and present iterations of the G.O.P., but as David Weigel wrote this spring, she accepts the premise of the Trump era: “I am very aware of a deep state,” she told a voter who asked about her plans to dismantle it this spring. “It’s not just in D.C.; it’s in every one of our states.”

And none of them are winning! It might be the indictments that have firmed up Mr. Trump’s support, but the inescapable sameness of the candidates, especially when they should sound and seem different, is real.

The idea some conservatives had for Mr. (dis...) DeSantis — including Mr. (dis...) DeSantis — was that he would be a singular figure, uniting the people attracted to the statist aggression of Mr. Trump and the people looking to move beyond Mr. Trump. Fundamentally, this depended on the idea that Mr. (dis...) DeSantis is distinct from Mr. Trump, which seems like a misunderstanding. His appeal for certain kinds of conservatives, particularly donors, depended then on a subtle trust that he would not go too far and could shift into some other plane of political operation.

But they were never distinct figures; Mr. (dis...) DeSantis’s rise in the party as a competent aggressor exists because of the Trump era and the things that Mr. Trump is and isn’t. He makes happen what Mr. Trump talks about. And, like all the others who have defined themselves by being an alternative to an individual who is still always present, he has ended up talking about the same things and sounding the same as most of the others. Mr. Trump created the air that everyone now breathes.

Trump was "incredibly reckless" with American national security

Read the indictment!

Former Governor Nikki Haley's Harshest Words for Trump Yet "'If this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security."

Echo opinion letter published in the Dallas Morning News:

Reading the indictment of our former president was startling in its simplicity! As someone who keeps up on news, political and otherwise, I was still shocked by what I read from the special counsel, Jack Smith, who was appointed by the attorney general of the Justice Department, Merrick Garland.

Smith laid out the charges in a straightforward manner that was easy reading for those of us who are not lawyers. He also pointed out that defendants are presumed innocent until all the evidence persuades the jury that the defendant is guilty.

What is as startling as the indictment itself is that the former president’s party leaders at both the federal and many state levels have declared the process wrong and without merit.

I’d recommend that we ordinary citizens, as well as government leaders, read the indictment and reserve judgment, one way or the other, until the legal process is complete.

Catherine Mangarelli, Aubrey Texas

Rhode Island opinion letter ~ Republican rescue plan

This Rhode Island letter writer makes a case to help Republicans become Republican again! 

Rescue plan for Republicans

Michele Verduchi wrote in the Providence Journal, "I never thought I would be writing to help Republicans win." 

But I have advice for helping them win over the long term while staying loyal to their core beliefs (MaineWriter~ or whatever is left of them!), rather than merely exist in survival mode.

Here goes: Many (or at least  some) Republicans can be intellectual people, who believe persuasively about any number of important issues facing America today. I hope to find a time and place in our lifetimes where we can engage in spirited, intelligent, respectful debate on issues of importance to our nation once again.

Please understand that will never be possible until you leave the fold of those who think Donald Trump — his choices for leadership roles, his behavior and his glaring lack of competence to be the president — is in any way acceptable.

Republicans have options! You have choices: John Huntsman, Nikki Haley, Jeff Flake, John Kasich or many other conservatives who have brains and care about America. Be brave! Care more about America than this regime.

The president does not deserve your support. He is the opposite of many things you believe in. Be brave!

Michele Verduchi, Cranston Rhode Island

Blaming the wrong people- Donald Trump is where the buck stops

Syria- Trump's moment of terrible truth- where the buck stops.
Wake up Donald Trump! You are now in charge. No more grandstanding, beer hall rallies or screaming rhetorical slogans. In fact, you are where the buck stops.

"The buck stops here" was a phrase popularized by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who kept a sign, with that phrase, on his desk in the White House Oval Office. 

It's become proverbial, in that the phrase means the President makes the decisions and accept the ultimate responsibility for decisions made and directed, by him.

Certainly, when UN Ambassador Nikki Haley raised the pictures of Syrian children struggling to breath because they were attacked by nerve gas, she raised the "red line" expectations bar very high for Donald Trump and his administration. Certainly, it was her clarion call to respond! Of course, in the past Donald Trump has opposed US interventions in Syria, just because he was opposed to everything, when he was campaigning to win the election regardless of the consequences.  Now, of course, Donald Trump must govern and Ambassador Nikki Haley has called him to act- by showing the world the consequences of inaction.

Syria never disposed of toxic chemical weapons, as Russia said they would do. Proof of it was in the renewed nerve gas attacks.

As a result, Donald Trump is being tested to react to the Assad regime's heinous war crimes, attacking his own Syrian citizens with nerve gas.  He must be removed from power - tried for war crimes and publicly executed.  Taking out Assad with a drone or missile isn't enough. In fact, the world must witness justice. 

In fact, Assad must suffer, by forcing him to confront the genocide he inflicted on his own people and be brought to justice.

This is the red line for Donald Trump.  He must respond. It's like a deadly roulette game. If his reaction fails, his regime will never recover (that's one bet).  On the other hand, if Assad is captured or killed, the consequences of that outcome are yet to be determined (an other bet).  And the third option?  Well, if Assad is removed from power (and he certainly will be) the power struggle for control of Syria will be between Russia and the USA.  In other words, all three roulette options are loaded with risks. Nevertheless, the risk of doing nothing will be equated with weakness and failure.

So, Donald Trump - guess what?  "The Buck Stops With You".

No more "blame the other person", as you're so apt to do.  

Your failed Seal Team 6 Yemen raid was a disaster, yet you blamed it on President Obama, because it flopped.  If Seal Team 6 in Yemen had succeeded, and the Muslim women had never taken up arms on the rooftops to fight the incoming assault, then the Trump horns would've touted success.  But Yemen failed.

Syria cannot be blamed or credited with anyone but Donald Trump.

Faites vos jeux 

Kudos to Republicans - right to "dump the Trump"

Finally, mainstream Republicans are united about something other than opposing every initiative launched by President Barack Obama.  Indeed, the establishment Republicans are now united against the candidacy of super rich guy Donald Trump, who is using his own money to run for the nomination to be leader of the free world. Kudos to those who deserve praise for leading the effort to rid the Republican party from the bombastic Trumponian influence. It's important to stand up against Trumponian tyranny, because it will take decades to erase the  negative and un-American brand now being sold as conservative Republicanism, by Donald Trump.

"Trump the Chump" political brand of conservatism will damage the Republica party for decades unless he is stopped.  "Dump the Trump" is essential for the Republican "brand" to keep establishment party leaders from having to suffer the cosnequences of his intimidation campaign.

As if there was any particular point in the loud Trumpity-trump intolerance message that deserved to be trashed, above all preceding in his list of intimidations, it was when protesters in Burlington Vermont were told they should be thrown into the January cold, after their coasts were confiscated. Moreover, Trump even called for the protesters to be thrown into the "gulf"....perhaps he meant the Winooski River. This cruel incident, led by "Trump the chump", in a frenzy of political zeal in Burlington, was eerie because it was reminiscent of Storm-trooper activities so ominous in the nationalistic movements led by Naziism. 

Imagine the 2016, fall negative political ad campaigns when Democrats will have so much saturation to work with as angry fodder from the Trumponian messaging. There's no doubt that Trump brands all their messaging. Republican candidates will suffer from the "carpet ads" repeating Trump's cruel sound bites.

The Washington Post reports on the Trumponian image problem. His image will cast a dark shadow on the entire Republican "brand" of conservativism. In fact, Donald Trump "the chump" paints an intolerant, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, intimidating political party.

To sum it all up, "Jeb" aka "Jeb Bush" calls Donald Trump a "jerk".

An eloquent slam against Donald Trump was given high profile visibility by South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley, during the Republican response to the January 12, President Obama's State of the Union speech. In her nationally televised response, Haley directed an overt criticism to Trump. She said, "Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country."

Donald Trump continues to remind all the news media groupies about his high poll numbers, all the while he intimidates anybody who tries to expose his intolerant branding,  Meanwhile, everyone who exposed "Trump the chump" and his Storm-Trooper style has been tanked by his caustic rebuttals.  

Dark historic images like "night of the long knives" can justifiably be made between those who expose Donald Trump and how political enemies have been dealt with in the past. Indeed, the Donald Trump intimidation style is politically dangerous. Therefore, it's all the more urgent, especially when the analogies of past nationalistic zeal are remembered, for estabilshment Republicans to confront the wrong minded right wing Trumponian campaign now, raher than to wait for impending and inevitable future consequences.