The bottom line here is that as a result of the approach taken over the past seven-plus years by the Republican establishment in harnessing the frenzied hatred of Obama exhibited by a fringe group of fratricidal, self-indulgent ultra-conservatives, the GOP is now saddled with an ultra-narcissistic nominee who recently hinted that he'd immediately resign should he somehow win the presidency and, who on the day he announced his candidacy instantly alienated the upcoming generation's next electoral mega-demographic -- Hispanics. In doing so, Trump has effectively laid ruin to the plans of folks like Priebus for a GOP future that would include enough Hispanic support to offset that received by Democrats from other so-called special interest groups.
It's no mystery. Contrary to whatever Trump would like to believe, "the Hispanics" as polls show-- by and large do not love him, nor do they seem very fond of the GOP in general these days. Thus, absent some stunning change in public sentiment among Hispanics, the votes of America's soon-to-be "majority minority" now appear lost to the GOP for generations to come.
So, as it heads toward the GOP convention facing a very plausible scenario which depicts a completely fractured Republican Party from which eventually Trump and his more overtly racist followers angrily depart, we have the spectacle of a possible replay of a politically-historic event that occurred within the Democratic Party nearly 70 years ago.
It was the mass migration to the GOP by southern congressional Democrats -- " Dixiecrats " -- incensed over the Democratic Party's support of civil rights for African-Americans. That migration represents the lineage of irrational hatred that has led the GOP right to where it is today.
On death's balcony.
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