The G.O.P. is in shambles. It's embarrassing, really. I think it stems from the "liberal" direction this country is heading. A lot happened under Obama's administration. Same-sex marriage became legal in all fifty states (against the wishes of millions of conservatives), we now have a single-payer healthcare system in the Affordable Care Act (which is socialism bordering on communism according to millions of conservatives), and gun laws will be changing (and of course, federal background checks are actually just Obama's sneaky way of stealing everybody's guns, according to millions of conservatives.) On top of that, we have the ISIS crisis that conservatives think Obama is doing nothing about (despite the fact that he has launched more drone strikes in those regions than Bush ever did) and we're in an era of "political correctness." Now, I don't necessarily think that this "political correctness" is a positive thing...in fact, it's hurt the debate on radical Islam. But millions of conservatives hate "political correctness" because they just want to say racist things and get away with it.
From all of this comes people like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. They're both insane and I'd hate to have them in office. Yet they're the GOP's leading candidates. If (and when) a Democrat takes office in 2016, the Republicans will have to regroup and figure out what the hell they're doing. This whole extreme anti-liberal, anti-political correctness platform isn't just stupid, it's dangerously stupid. It reinforces racist views toward African-Americans and Arab-Americans. Hell, if I were a fundamentalist Muslim, Trump himself would make me want to join ISIS...
From all of this comes people like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. They're both insane and I'd hate to have them in office. Yet they're the GOP's leading candidates. If (and when) a Democrat takes office in 2016, the Republicans will have to regroup and figure out what the hell they're doing. This whole extreme anti-liberal, anti-political correctness platform isn't just stupid, it's dangerously stupid. It reinforces racist views toward African-Americans and Arab-Americans. Hell, if I were a fundamentalist Muslim, Trump himself would make me want to join ISIS...