The entire GOP is displeased with the success of Donald Trump. He is responsible for many future alterations within the party. His emergence as the party leader has reshaped politics carefully structured by the GOP for years.

Their final solution to winning elections was receiving the support of a politically biased Supreme Court which upheld ‘Citizens United.’ This virtually guaranteed that the wealthy friends of GOP candidates could buy elections. But they didn’t count on the Trump phenomena.

Jeb Bush has received tens of billions from Super PACs; he polls at less than four percent; Trump is polling at 35. Ted Cruz is gaining on the money trail, and is now ahead of Trump in Iowa in some polls. So, what does it all mean?

First of all, it means that money alone cannot buy an election for a candidate. Voters want more, and Trump has proven that they want far more inspiring candidates than they have been offered in 2015. Without Trump’s success, we would be unaware of the displeasure of GOP voters.

The bad about Trump is that he has exposed the GOP and its voters with the truth; it is the party of racists and bigots.

While those who claim to be the ‘leaders’ of the GOP scramble to derail Trump, his numbers continue to rise. He may destroy today’s GOP; and that’s not necessarily a bad thing; in no way does it resemble the Republican Party of the past which was filled with ideas, occasionally crossed party lines for the good of our nation’s people, and compromised when that was the only solution. It needs major changes, beginning with the ousting of the extremist TEA Party.

More of the bad effects of Trump are the facts that he could not win the general election, and if he is not nominated, and runs as a third party candidate, whoever runs under the GOP banner will be defeated.

The most hilarious part of all this turmoil is that some in the GOP are blaming President Obama for Trump’s rise. While the President is taking a sensible approach to ISIS and immigration, Trump is extreme. Some on the right are calling Mr. Obama ‘weak’ on the issues. Once again they are in denial. The GOP is self-destructing, and it is just learning that their voters are not as stupid as it believed; they are angry with a failed government.

From the worst of circumstances some good always survives. This time it may come because a man who was once revered by conservatives has exposed the GOP for once and for all. It has devolved over the last 20 years, and reached its peak in 2010 with the evolution of the TEA Party backed by the Koch brothers.

It is highly doubtful that the Republican Party of old will ever return; it has no effective leadership. Regardless, the destruction of what it is now is good for the entire nation.

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By James Turnage

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