Trump Exposes Phony Republicans' True Colors

Ying Ma

Politics, Americas

Are mealy-mouthed establishment Republicans the new Democrats?

Establishment Republicans won’t stop saying or doing stupid things this election season. One after another, they have declared their hatred for Donald Trump or endorsed Hillary Clinton. Those who have not stooped to such unseemliness have little to brag about either, as many of them have repeatedly failed to defend their party’s nominee or undermined him at every turn.

Each time, establishment Republicans eagerly proclaim that they are more decent than the man chosen by a record number of GOP primary voters and supported by 83 percent of self-identified Republicans. Yet, while objecting to Trump’s unconventional style and rhetoric, the Trump haters have no appreciation or answer for the grave issues he raises.

Last week, Trump’s refusal to stay quiet upon being attacked by the Muslim parents of deceased Army Captain Humayun Khan unleashed a torrent of anger and self-flagellation on the right. One former senior Republican official, announcing his support for Hillary on Monday, said that Trump was “a bigot, a bully, and devoid of grace or magnanimity.” Soon afterwards, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and dozens of former national security advisors for former Republican administrations declared they could not vote for Trump either.

While Americans of all political stripes can agree that presidential aspirants should keep their mouths shut when criticized by a Gold Star family, patriotic citizens do not need to blithely ignore pressing national security threats just because they touch on sensitive issues like race, ethnicity, and religion.

At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the Khans pointed to their son’s sacrifice to condemn Trump’s call for a temporary ban of Muslims into the United States. In the unfortunate kerfuffle that followed, almost no one—certainly not the cravenly GOP establishment—bothered to point out that the Islamic radicals that Trump wishes to ban do not exist in a vacuum.

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