The Republican Party

The Republican Party is an absolute disaster at the moment.  And they’ve only got themselves to blame for selecting Donald Trump as their presidential nominee.  Donald Trump!  What a joke.  The man has no presidential qualities whatsoever, and hardly any redeeming features anyway.  I’ve not been following much of the happenings at the Republican National Convention – mainly because it’s just a ridiculous charade and poor excuse for racist and sexist ranting against Obama and Hilary respectively.  By all accounts, it’s an absolute shambles with shocking speech plagiarism and a rotating set of nutcases ranting and raving about one ridiculous conspiracy theory after another (“Lock her up” indeed.  Whatever).  I’m not surprised most of the Republican leadership is skipping the convention, it’s a total embarrassment.  I don’t expect any proper issues will get discussed at all – instead they are just agitating the already tense atmosphere surrounding policing and racial injustice.  Expect more shootings.  The worst thing for the Republican Party is that if they’d selected a sensible nominee, I think they would have a good chance of the presidency – Hilary is not exactly a particularly liked candidate, with many flaws of her own.  But given the choice between her and Trump, I can only see one victor and it won’t be Trump, and frankly I’d be shocked if it was close.  I hope Brexit has shown the American public that you can’t take any chances with voting on something so important.