Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, John Cornyn—the whole lot of elected Republicans are sobbing in their beers about what they're stuck with as a presidential nominee, and apparently absolving themselves of any responsibility for creating the party that did this.
[H]is feud with Machado, renewed questions over his taxes and his rocky performance at the first debate have once again renewed long-standing concerns within GOP ranks that their standard bearer remains an unpredictable wild card when it comes to their party down-ticket. […]
Asked about the next debate, Cornyn said: "We'd like to see him do better. Obviously, he doesn't have as much experience as Secretary Clinton — and it showed" at the Hofstra debate. […]
Indeed, GOP leaders publicly and privately have long shown a level of discomfort with Trump's unorthodox campaign — especially in the aftermath of last week's events.
At a press conference to wrap up the pre-election congressional session, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would not talk about Trump's impact on the battle for the Senate majority.
"Look to avoid wasting our time here," McConnell told reporters, "this is not something I'm going to discuss today -- the implications of the presidential race on the Senate."
No, Cornyn, it's not about who has the most experience in a debate. It's about who is a monster. The monster is yours. The sooner you stop making excuses for Trump and accept responsibility for creating him, the sooner you can start to try to salvage something from the wreckage of your party.
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But that's not going to happen, in part because they actually don't have a problem with any of Trump's political stances. They probably believe that his ability to get out of paying taxes for 18 years does make him a genius—we all know how much they hate taxes—and share Trump’s views toward women and people of color. The problem they have is that he says all that stuff out loud, and it's supposed to be kept in the quiet rooms.
So they're not going to be a party to the remaking of their party unless they are absolutely forced to because it's been completely destroyed, ground into dust. Which is our job—and the job of elected Democrats—to do.