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Reblogged:Trump Reveals Opportunity for GOP

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In "Open Letter to a Friendly Neighborhood Racist," Walter Hudson of PJ Media makesthe following apt analogy regarding the relationship between Republicans and the so-called "alt-right":

Like the setting of a bone, discovering such vile views among people in my acquaintance hurts. But it also serves an essential purpose. The discourse stirred by the candidacy of Donald Trump has lifted a veil which had concealed an ugly truth. Alcoholics are told that the first step toward recovery is admitting their problem. The alt-right has confronted Republicans with ours. Now we have the opportunity to do something about it.
Republicans do have such an opportunity -- or did, until they capitulated to Donald Trump. (I will hold slightly more hope for them if, as a commenter recently offered, the party's "survival instinct ... kick in" and there is a brokered convention.) Advocates of individual rights must fight on, whether or not the Republican Party survives what looks like might be a collapse -- or, worse, a complete transformation into a party hostile to the very concept.

And if that fight must continue outside any party, so be it.

-- CAV

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