Donald Trump’s Victories Point to a GOP Crisis
By The Denver Post Editorial Board
POSTED: 03/01/2016
Is the Republican Party facing a crackup if Donald Trump secures the nomination? It sure looks like a possibility given recent statements from some prominent party members and office-holders.
And yet Trump has moved a step closer to his goal with his victories on Super Tuesday.
At the very least Trump will end up leading a fractured party in which a number of well-known leaders repudiate their supposed standard-bearer.
Well, good for them. They will be putting their self-respect ahead of partisan impulses.
After all, not a week goes by when Trump doesn’t demonstrate he is unfit to be president because of his character, temperament and lack of knowledge — never mind his often lurid, simplistic policy positions. His weekend gaffe in refusing to repudiate David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan when asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper — and then blaming it on a “bad earpiece” — is only the latest in a staggering line of pratfalls that would have ruined any other candidate.