And for good reason. For many long-time Trump observers baffled by his stunning political resiliency, the implausibly unthinkable had occurred. His campaign had just collapsed.
Finally.
But it was only after a bewildering potty-mouth stream-of-fourth-grade-level-consciousness that so many Republican voters and the GOP establishment acquiesced of Trump for 16 long months: His dogging of the disabled; disparaging of ex-POWs and Gold Star families; his tacit support of Alt-Right "hipster" Nazism; the dissing of the Pope. After all that and a whole lot more, the Achilles Heel to the anatomy of both the Trump campaign and by proxy, the Republican Party, turned out to be its heel of a nominee's seemingly seething contempt for not just a woman's dignity, but also for what is arguably the most sacred part of the female anatomy.
"Grab 'em by the p*ssy" was perhaps the most strikingly perverse element of a buck-wild onslaught of filthy assertions which revealed what the married Trump feels his celebrity status permits of him regarding any women -- married or unmarried -- that he finds attractive.
"I just start kissing them ... Just kiss," Trump gloatingly acknowledged during what turned out to be an impromptu, "open-mic" session unwittingly recorded in 2005 by Access Hollywood. "I don't even wait. And when you are a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
'How dare you claim...'
Not surprisingly, in response to the deluge of negative backlash over those and other remarks caught on tape, the notoriously thin-skinned Trump "went low." Which means that rather than indulge in the sort of routine escapist rhetoric typical of politicians faced with the sudden exposure of their sexual wrongdoings -- "I don't have all the facts therefore I can't comment." " When all the facts are revealed I'll be completely exonerated. " "This is a personal matter between me and my wife." -- Trump doubled down on what he does best; sling mud in large, steaming chunks.
Problem is that some of the steamiest were chucked directly at fellow Republicans up to and including his own Party's House Speaker, Paul Ryan for both condemning Trump's remarks and dis-inviting him from an important campaign event scheduled for that weekend in Wisconsin. Predictably, Trump's response was to spazz out like a toddler pissed off at having pee-peed his Pampers, unleashing his anger with stunningly tone-deaf temerity. He called John McCain "very foul-mouthed" after McCain renounced his endorsement.
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