The Republican victory with Trump as its figurehead is (at a tragically high cost) a once in a lifetime opportunity to finally convince a super-majority of Americans that the Republican party is harmful to their interests and terrible for America. In two, and especially four years, we have the chance to destroy the cancer of modern conservatism. We can do that if we relentlessly remind and expose the Republican’s for what they are. Trump isn't the problem, he is just the little lump under the skin that indicates the Republican party cancer within.
Every journalist, local editorial page letter writer, and Daily Kos poster must recognize that Trump is a puppet of the GOP. Because of this, every story about him must make it clear that the Republican party is the real enemy. The Republican party gestated the Trump monster in its stew of anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-voting rights, anti-middle class, pro-Nazi, anti-American poison. The next foreign policy fiasco isn’t a Trump mistake it is a Republican policy blunder. Paying the Carrier corporation 7 million in tax breaks to ship 1000 jobs to Mexico isn’t a Trump policy, it is a Republican give-away that mocks the middle class.
So, it’s not: “Trump caused this incident or ignored that warning”, it’s the Republicans triggered the incident with China. The Republicans took away that program, started that war, didn’t prepare for the Hurricane etc. etc.
We need to use Trump and his weekly scandals, disasters, and outrages to expose the Republicans for what they are. Trump is not the greatest weapon Republicans have against America. To the contrary, writers, artists, and yes, even journalists, can easily use Trump as an effective weapon against the force that made him: The Republican party.
America’s lurch towards the cliff on November 8 was unexpected and still hard to believe. However, the pendulum always swings. An equal if not stronger seismic shift in the progressive direction can occur in 2020 (or even 2018) if we use the Republican party’s figurehead against themselves.