House Republican leaders fear a 'devastating' Trump nomination. Poor babies.

Donald Trump keeps terrifying establishment Republicans, and they keep running to reporters to explain how very upset they are that their party’s presidential leader is for some odd reason a flaming bigot. It’s not good for the general election, you see, and they have downballot races to worry about:

“This is not what we’re about as a party, and this is not what we’re about as a country, and we cannot yield to this,” said Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is charged with electing Republicans to the House, said Tuesday. “It puts, certainly, competitive seats in jeopardy. We’ll have a much more difficult time.” [...]

Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), the NRCC’s deputy chairman in charge of helping reelect embattled GOP incumbents, was more blunt.

“It would be devastating to our attempts to grow our majority and would cost us seats,” Stivers said in an interview. Trump “would cost us seats. There are people that couldn’t win if he was our nominee.”

Awww … is it hurting you guys to see a candidate be explicit and loud about all the stuff your candidates have always tried to communicate via dog whistle? And to have a significant chunk of Republican voters be all about it? What a shame. Too bad you couldn’t possibly have prevented this by, say, not leaning so hard on the dog-whistled racist appeals all these years.