Who’s To Blame For Trump?

The GOP has come up with the latest fantasy of the Obama problem. It appears that Donald Trump is a creation of Barak Obama’s administration!

Yeah, sure, we’re really ready to buy that one. The concept seems to have originated with Jeb Bush, whose brother George, through his criminally negligent management of our economy, our foreign policy and just about everything else he touched had more to do with the creation of Trump than Frankenstein had with his monster.

The reality is that the incompetence of the Bush administration led directly to the election of Barak Obama, just as the incompetence and malfeasance of the Tea Party losers elected to congress in 2010 and 2014 led to massive anger by the dopes that elected them. They are now swarming to Trump, believing that he will solve the problem they caused in the first place by electing officials that played to their bigotry and personal vanity rather than to the problems of the country.

There’s an old saying, “that you can’t fix stupid,” and it’s hard at work right here. It’s not Obama! It’s the incompetence of the Republican congress that is the cause of the rise of Trump. The Republican leaders don’t want to admit to that and Republican voters don’t want to understand that, because they are indubitably stupid… or maybe just unable to accept the guilt that brands them as the losers that they are.

The latest try at Obama comes out of the disaster in Flint, Michigan where the GOP pundits are trying to say that it is all Obama’s fault because he was President of the nation when it happened. Let’s look at some facts. The Governor “of Michigan is a Republican. The man he appointed as city administrator, the man who ignored the lead pipes and switched the water supply to a poisoned one is a Republican who did everything he could to crush any Democratic opposition.

Yelling for Obama to step in with federal money isn’t the right move. Michigan had a balanced budget and an adequate emergency fund to deal with this, but Governor Snyder dragged his feet and the problem because a disaster. This, like all the other complaints that the GOP has come up with, doesn’t reside at the feet of Barak Obama but in the hearts of the “screw the poor, feed the rich,” Republican establishment.

People keep talking about how the GOP is imploding and may break apart. It can’t come too soon.

In fact the conservatives have been the ones who gave birth to Donald Trump. They are the ones that began to vocalize the concepts of Nationalism, Populism and

Obstructionism. They have flirted with bigotry, prejudice and misogyny. They have attacked Obama for being too weak and then for being too strong. It’s the Republican establishment that has laid the groundwork for a demagogue like Trump, who has simply absorbed the ideas of the establishment and rephrased them into a fascist monologue that attacks anyone who it perceives to be weaker or anyone that thinks differently. Now the establishment, like Doctor Frankenstein, seeing what it has created is in full assault mode but it’s probably too late. They didn’t dismiss the shouted bigotries of Trump because they didn’t think he was a problem. Now that he’s a disaster it’s too late to do anything about him.

More important; instead of attacking Trump now that he has emerged as a full-fledged threat, they should have condemned his ideas when he first began voicing them.

Bret Stephens, an intelligent but far right pundit, condemns people like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levine for not denouncing Trump, even while he ignores the fact that Trump is just echoing the ideas of these far right sleaze balls. Stephens works very hard to sell the idea that the establishment isn’t at fault for Trump’s rise but his arguments just don’t hold water.

For generations, the GOP had based any popularity it has on bigotry, misogyny, phony super patriotism that has nationalism as its basis, a nationalistic “us against them,” philosophy that is hell bent on excluding all but white men and the grossly stupid notion that these kinds of policies could endure in a country that is very slowly becoming better educated.

If the Republicans want to blame Donald Trump on anyone, all they have to do is look in the mirror. He is the supreme product of Republican incompetence, bigotry and their desire to kneel at the alter of gold.