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Congratulations, Republican Party. Your nominee and chief spokesman is a bigoted, ignorant, misogynistic, hateful, narcissistic, fraudulent grifter.
You can tut-tut his racist comments all you want, but he is your guy. He has been endorsed by so-called moderate Jon "No Labels" Huntsman, as well as by what passes as your intelligentsia. You picked him, and now you own him (or perhaps vice versa).
Your party is now officially a hate group. So, my Republican friends, you have a clear choice. Embrace the hate. Give in to your inner fascist. Or renounce the Party and all that it represents.
You have no other options.
Marc Hoenig
Salt Lake City