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     GOP establishment reaction to Donald Trump's typically petty invective toward Gonzalo Curiel, a federal judge presiding over part of the investigation into the Trump University fraud case, seems to show the presence of spine in some Republican authority figures.  Speaker of the House Paul Ryan called Trump's comments--lame suggestions that the judge, being of Mexican heritage, should recuse himself--"textbook racism."  Ryan did not, however, say he's withdrawing his support for the Republican presumptive nominee.  This is typical.  I'm aware of only one Republican politician so far, Mark Kirk, who endorsed Trump before, but now "unendorses" the man.
     Asked by journalists if Trump's comments about the judge are racist, luminaries of the right like Mitch McConnell and Newt Gingrich condemned the words, but wouldn't go so far as to say they're racist, much less call the presumptive nominee a racist.  Trump clearly is a racist and a bigot who blows abundant air on the fuel powering the hearts and minds of American racists and bigots.  This condition of Trump's character has been obvious from the start of his campaign, when he accused Mexican illegal immigrants to the United States as being "criminals" and "rapists."  His policy suggestion that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, though not yet carried out, betrays a desire on his part to persecute hundreds of millions of people entirely because of their faith, a power fantasy he shares with the leaders of ISIS.
     Trump's loathsome belief system, his daily displays of immature behaviors similar to those of the under the age of ten set, his attacks, his grudges, his commitment to lying in the face of facts, the very grotesqueness of his self-importance, all point glaringly at something Republican leaders like McConnell should've realized for at least a year by now: Trump is a stubborn, irredeemable shit.  The Republican Party, stuck with him, now tries to shame him into behaving, giving their pooh-poohs on television news about how Trump shouldn't have spoken so about the judge.
     It didn't move McConnell and the others much in the past year when Trump took successive shits on Mexicans, POWs, women, Muslims, his fellow GOP candidates.  However, now that challengers like Cruz and Rubio are out of the picture, Trump is the man, and he must be scolded publicly, but carefully.  Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House during the Clinton administration and talked about as a possible Trump running mate, said Trump's words about Curiel were bad, but wouldn't say "racist."
     Why are Gingrich, McConnell and others afraid to say "racist," when talking of Trump's frequent racist language?  I suggest it's because they have hopes for him.  He's the presumptive nominee--destroying their party, but still, he's the one who secured the necessary number of delegates, and Cleveland, there they will go.  Even Ryan put the word "textbook" in front of "racism," instead of just saying "racism."  I would ask Ryan, "Never mind the textbook--what is racism in your judgment?"
     It remains to be seen, but I think the Republican Party, a majority of whose Washington establishment have already endorsed Trump, wants to grind its teeth through this process taking the country to November.  They can hope, as they have in the last two elections, that their nominee will win the White House away from the Democrats as they keep control of the House of Representatives, leaving them in a two out of three split, with the Democrats holding onto the Senate.  President Trump will then behave himself, executing the Republican agenda, guided by Ryan.
     The Republican establishment, though, has developed a sense that they can succeed, even though their agenda for the American people is toxic.  Their doomed quest to win the White House in 2008 looks now more obvious to mostly everyone as a lame effort against history's current, too stupid to be noble, to elevate a war hero with no integrity and a babbling lunatic from Alaska, to high office.  Four years later, Romney, an out of touch blasé multi-millionaire and his VP selection, Paul Ryan, a young screw-the-poor-and-uninsured idealist, stood forward in their party's eyes, ready to ascend, unaware of the majority hatred for their inhuman governing and social ideas.
     I've mentioned this failure of the Republican Party to take the Oval Office a few times in the last several posts.  I don't like to beat a point to death, but this aspect of the current election is important to consider.  Trump himself is a major problem for the Republican Party.  They can't control him, for one thing.  One inelegant tweet barfed from Trump Tower at 3:15 A.M. can produce a wave of journalists with microphones asking GOP authorities for comments.  The key problem, though, is the ground from which Trump grows: the Party itself, which has welcomed him, and never in the past rejected him.  Their lack of concern about Trump's hatred of Muslims, the poor, Latinos, even women, has already revealed the general GOP regard of their man, who they look to in order to "prevent Hillary from becoming president."  They had to finally say something when Trump went after a federal judge.  That Trump insulted the appearance of Ted Cruz's wife led none of them to say, "What an adolescent piece of shit Donald Trump is for saying that."
     The mention of Heidi Cruz may seem like the pointing out of one of Trump's most minor infractions, but it's a single offensive moment directly attributable to him--there are many such instances.  Piled up, they make a mountain that has rested on the shrugging shoulders of the body of the Republican Party, an institution willing to tolerate one of the worst human beings in the country as its man of the year.  That their support for this lying vermin disquiets them now reveals mainly their lack of wisdom, cupidity, and a depravity inherited and developed from the George W. Bush years.

                                                                                Vic Neptune