After the annual Carnival of Culture War Dumpster Fires that is CPAC, it should be perfectly clear to us all: Donald Trump is the Republican Party - the lying, the racism, the xenophobia, the resentment, the anger, the oblivious and incompetent understanding of governance, the ant-democratic hatred for We, the People. All of it.
It's all yours now, Republican Party. You gleefully rode on Trump's claims of birtherism, vitriol towards Mexicans and Muslims, scoffing at the law and democratic norms, and contempt for a free press. Now you must own the cancerous lesion of Trumpism you have desperately protected for the past decade in the belief that you needed Trump to promote your white identity politics of resentment and regression. The world is changing and leaving you behind, Republican Party. It cannot happen soon enough.
So there's nothing left to be confused about. We do not "need" two political parties in this country so long as one of them is so infected by "alternative facts" that it ceases to function as a viable institution. The Republican Party must be contained for what it has become: a regional toxicity to be stripped of power and exposed for its total illegitimacy.
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