12 October 2016

It’s Trump's voters, not Trump, that “moderate” Republicans fear

Donald Trump is a groper, a kiss and tell lout, and a lot of other things that many Americans, especially college educated women, find repellent. He’s also the guy that millions of Republican voters chose as their nominee — and they chose him because they like his screw the establishment, bully boy style.

These are also the voters that down ticket Republicans, among them Ryan Zinke and Greg Gianforte, need to win their elections. Not only do these voters agree with trump, they prize party loyalty. They expect all Republican candidates to get behind all of the party’s nominees, and they will punish Republican politicians who do not.

Democrats should focus not on Trump’s vulgar remarks about women, but on his promise, delivered in the last debate, to use the power of the Presidency to throw Hillary Clinton in prison, to criminalize political differences. That’s how strongmen attempt to establish one-man rule. That, and not locker room crudity, is what disqualifies Trump for the Presidency.