By Silvia Uribe
The result of that extreme polarization? Donald Trump and
his boisterous campaign. In my humble opinion, he is also the result of the
lack of imagination and vision on the Republican Party side (sorry Republican
friends). If we look back on how things developed, we can vividly remember that the
Republican Party never liked Trump as a candidate; they thought he was a “joke”, at the very least. Joke or not, however, Republicans were afraid of him and his
threats of creating a third party “if not treated well.” They thought that if
he did, it would weaken their party, so, they let him be. By lacking action, they
also allowed him prey on people’s primary instincts: fear, anxiety, anger, desire
for power, hatred. He used then and now, the "psychology of the masses", as they call it. By the time Republicans were willing to do something about
it, it was too late. They most likely will have an unscrupulous presidential
candidate, who in his own words, is “greedy for power” and doesn’t care that
his inflammatory words can cause riots, or even the possibility of people physically
and verbally attacking members of “undesirable” groups, i.e. women, Latinos,
Muslims, and counting.
The only good thing that I see about Donald Trump is that, now, many Republicans and most Democrats despise him, and are able to see him for what he is: a fraud and a danger to this country. Hey, we have not agreed on anything else for years now!
The reason that I write this column at this point, is
because it is sickening to me to think that the Republican Party could give its
endorsement to this “trumper” (urban dictionary: A brash, pretentious,
narcissistic man who makes outrageous, controversial statements and engages in
attention-seeking behavior for money or fame.) who's willing to trump up ( Dictionary.com:
to devise deceitfully or dishonestly. Fabricate.) everything and everyone. His opponents, and other party members, from Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina to
the Bush family and even Paul Ryan have declared their distaste for Mr. Trump, but
some of them have, and others might gather around him, and give him their endorsement after having a few meetings
with him at the White House next Wednesday. Seriously?
Do Republican Party members really think that they can
trust this guy? He is going to say anything in order to get his hunger for
power satisfied. These are a few examples to prove it:
- - Trump has criticized candidates who raise money for
their presidential campaigns – He is, as we speak, getting ready to raise serious money and has a
Super PAC already in formation
- He has said that he doesn’t want illegal
immigration (I would rather have those who work on the fields to have the
opportunity to live here legally too) and wants to deport people left and
right, but he yesterday said he loves Hispanics, and celebrated 5 de Mayo with
a “huge” American style tostada bowl.
- - He said at a debate that he would order
the military to use torture with terrorists, waterboarding or worse, and then
when confronted in an interview he said “I would not ask the military to do
anything illegal”
- - He, from the get go of his campaign, has
attacked women. He now wants to gain
their vote by being quasi-charming (not really), and so on.
Paul Ryan said that he is not ready yet to
support him, unless he thinks that Trump will run a campaign of which Republicans
could be proud. Is this a possibility in Ryan’s mind at this point? Is he, and
others, ready to go ahead and endorse him just to have a vocally (not politically)
strong contestant against Hillary Clinton? I believe it is morally wrong that
they are willing to put our country at stake that way.
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