Trump’s ascendancy as the head of the GOP ticket for president reveals all that is wrong with the GOP.

It’s devolved into a party that feeds on the bigotry and hate and ignorance. It’s a party that explicitly seeks nothing but tax cuts that not only disproportionately help the rich at the expense of everyone else, but screws the national budget by not only exploding deficits year over year, but would absolutely require massive service cuts just to cover them.

This is a party that enables a flat out bigot whose “straight talk” is straight out an America First fascist rally. He’s an authoritarian bully who doesn’t know or doesn’t care about politics or the political process. He simply thinks that if he says something, it will be done.

And this doesn’t even begin to touch on his actual ties to Russia’s oligarchs or Putin.

The GOP refused to act on Trump’s rise, because they needed the supporters’ votes. Their voters’ votes.

They cultivated this bigotry and hate, but kept it simmering just below the surface, though it would bubble through occasionally, especially as it relates to women and minorities, but Trump’s unleashed the full metal hate.

And yet the GOP does nothing but try to blame others for their own failures. They sowed the ground on which Trump and the bigot brigade rose. They reaped this bigot brigade. The GOP wants to blame Democrats or liberals for Trump’s rise?

Nope. The politics of personal responsibility is clear.

This is the GOP.

Look in the mirror. You did this to yourself.

Only you can fix your party.

But we can make sure that you don’t irreparably damage the nation.