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Mr. Donald Trump has repeatedly ridiculed Jeb Bush, hit Dr. Ben Carson for his religious faith, mocked former POW John McCain as a “loser” for having been shot down over North Vietnam, sneered at a disabled disabled man, branded Mexicans as rapists and murderers, called Ted Cruz a “liar” and threatened to sue him for having quoted Mr. Trump’s own words, made grossly sexist remarks about Megyn Kelly, and on and on and on and on. The British Parliament has mulled a bill that would bar him from entering the United Kingdom.
Now, he’s in a spat with the Pope.
It’s the imperative patriotic duty of all of the Republican presidential candidates to train their fire on Mr. Trump. He absolutely should not become president of the United States.
They should do so consistently and fiercely.
There is plenty in Mr. Trump’s business record and personal life and in the history of his political opinions to fuel days and weeks of substantive criticism. He’s an authoritarian progressive, a crude vulgarian, an opportunist, an arrogant egomaniac, a crassly offensive man who rarely if ever offers any specific plans for fixing America’s problems.
Those problems are enormous and growing. It’s time to get really, really serious.
Here’s one specific step: Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC should cease its embarrassing attacks on Marco Rubio immediately and try, although it’s perhaps too late, to save the Republican Party from the prospect of nominating Donald Trump.
We’re running out of time. At the best.
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