We are not alone in recognizing that the most rabid right-wingers have become lapdogs for the presidential candidate embracing big government, isolationism, protectionism and opposition to entitlement reform.

Trump’s loss and the humiliation of the GOP will rest squarely on the shoulders of Trump, right-wing media shills, the soulless RNC chairman, elected Republicans too spineless to oppose him and, most of all, the primary voters who lifted him to the nomination.

Fear of the fringe can become a self-fulfilling prophesy, as we saw in the GOP presidential primary.

The spectacle at Donald Trump's presidential convention -- the crude calls to lock up his political opponent, the fear-mongering, the blatant lies, the made-up statistics on immigration, the utter lack of intellectual content and the absence of a positive vision -- was in many ways representative of the GOP in the era of Trump.

It is a shame neither Republican nor Democrats treat voters like adults who can be persuaded by reasonable arguments and easily verifiable facts.

At some point, one hopes that before it really is too late, GOP voters will come to their senses and reconsider entrusting vast power to a know-nothing bully.  

The voters have been done wrong, the theory goes, so they really cannot be blamed for embracing a raving lunatic for president of the United States. Really? Frankly, none of this rings all that true.

The right’s political huckster gives Al Sharpton a run for his money.

Get what you thought you wanted.  Get the opposite of what you really want.

America’s neighbor isn’t a failed state or a threat—despite what Donald Trump says.

The right can survive liberal presidents. Trump will kill its best ideas for a generation.

“America First” is the inevitable outcome of the Republican descent into populism.

Donald Trump gives credence to the left’s caricature of bigoted conservatives.

Where was Mark Levin when Trump was still a big bubble waiting to be popped?

Democracies that trade substance for charisma don’t last. Trump is America’s answer to Hugo Chávez.