To those of you who just tuned into the epic saga of the Republican Party in it's 2016 death throes, please know that even New York Times journalist and Republican Tom Friedman suggested that a good wooden stake to the heart would not be amiss, on Sunday’s “Meet The Press.”
“Maybe this party just needs to crash and burn, and this version of the Republican Party needs to die so out of the ashes… we will get… a sane Republican party.”
The man will get no argument here. I see the GOP as having gone from fixer upper to slum to tear down, just since March, when the ascendency of Donald Trump to nominee seemed assured.
But if all of the windows are broken and the porch is sagging on Republican manor what I want to say is: You built it. All of you. The entire GOP, its purported leaders, it’s pundits, including Tom Friedman. You spent a lot of time in its construction and if what’s left of the facade is sinking into a swamp of white supremacists, evangelical whackos and conspiracy theorists, who did you think was coming to dinner, lo these many years? And what were you thinking when you put Donald Trump at the head of the table?
So, by all means, raze the GOP, burn it to the ground. We'll fan the flames and roast weinies.
Have a listen to Friedman’s conversation with Chuck Todd on “Meet The Press.”
Thomas Friedman on the GOP: 'Maybe This Party Just Needs to Crash and Burn'