http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/28/1490942/-Donald-Trump-is-the-candidate-the-Republicans-deserve
"The increasing polarization of the political parties has been a long time developing. In some ways, it has been a natural realignment along ideological grounds that was forestalled only by the bitter vindictiveness of Southern racists, including those who like to pretend that their bitter vindictiveness isn't about racism. But it is. And the now obviously racist undercurrent of so much modern Republican politics and right-wing media should not be a surprise. Racism is not incidental to the modern conservative movement. It has been one of its defining characteristics. Donald Trump is nothing new, but for his being open about it. Conservatives have courted the ugliest instincts in the American psyche, and now they own them. Misogyny. Islamophobia. Support for torture. Racist nativism. None of it is new to the Republican Party. None of it is unique to one presidential candidate. It is what the Republican Party has become. All of it. It is how the modern Republican Party courted and catered to its modern base of voters. All of them. And now Republicans leaders are terrified of Donald Trump? The simple truth is that he personifies everything the modern Republican Party has become. Perhaps they thought they could keep it hidden. Perhaps they thought the major media would continue to help them pretend. But they can’t keep it hidden anymore, and they can’t pretend. Donald Trump has torn off the modern Republican Party’s mask. It is neither accident nor fluke that he is becoming their leader. Donald Trump is the modern Republican Party. They own it, and he owns them."
