Well if we had hoped this would be a positive campaign season, looks like that idea has gone down the tubes.
Which isn’t always the worst thing in the world. Sometimes a cat fight can show whose fur is loose.
I kinda half imagined that the Republican primary would be a (more or less) sedate process, to select a nominee who’d take out the lib trash in the general, and who’d restore order and dignity to the White House.
When Trump entered the race, the energy cranked up a thousand-fold, and because of his no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, bust-you-in-the-lip, sort of bluster, it quickly became more like the sort of knock down drag out arguments we see at our own back yard barbecues.
Trump forced the other candidates to put up or shut up. Many, if not most, were totally unprepared to be challenged in public as bluntly and effectively, as he’s done. He’s basically called them out to their faces, and forced them to act like men - or at least try to.
He’s definitely separating the wheat from the chaff.