With Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, the party is no longer the Grand Old Party. It is now a party led by a demagogic, authoritarian strongman whose rhetoric compares with the authoritarian, anti-democratic strongmen of history.
His list of political apostasies is long and well known. But the bottom line is that the party I was once a proud and long member of has left me as its presidential candidate articulates beliefs beyond the pale of acceptable political belief and does nothing to denounce what just a year ago was unacceptable to the party.
From his unconstitutional policy statements to his ridiculing of Americans to his desire to abridge our freedom of speech and religion, and his cozying up to the despot Vladimir Putin, Trump is as vulgar and unacceptable a candidate as our presidential nominating process has ever turned out.
This is a bridge too far and should be for everyone. Donald Trump violates the fundamentals of our democracy and is a threat to it.
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