{"id":11230,"date":"2015-06-16T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T22:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11230"},"modified":"2015-06-16T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T23:21:54","slug":"the-gops-new-frankensteins-monster-bradcast-6162015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11230","title":{"rendered":"The GOP’s New ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’: ‘BradCast’ 6\/16\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I suggested<\/a> earlier today, I believe Donald Trump just blew up the 2016 Republican Presidential primary, and maybe even the 2016 general election.<\/p>\n

All bets are off, now that, as our guest on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, Heather ‘Digby’ Parton of Salon<\/a> and Digby’s Hullabalo<\/a> explains, the very embodiment of the misbegotten Reaganist American Dream — and a TV star, at that — has entered the contest for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

Born a millionaire, Trump “became a billionaire<\/i>, which is really kind of the ultimate American Dream. In fact, it’s the only American Dream now,” Parton opines. “You’re a billionaire or your not and anything less than that is, you’re kind of a loser.”<\/p>\n

Am I right when I argue that media and political pundits who disregard him as a clown (which he is), “misunderestimate” Trump’s candidacy at their own peril? Parton, a 2014 Hillman Foundation Prize winner for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, seems to believe I could be. After all, she notes, “this is the culmination of about 30 years of propaganda” that folks like Reagan, Fox “News” and Roger Ailes put in place.<\/p>\n

Trump “is channeling the GOP id,” she says, adding: “The grand metaphor of this era, is Frankenstein’s monster getting out of control. And that’s what happened on the Right. And Donald Trump is another manifestation of that particular metaphor coming to life.”<\/p>\n

Plus: Speaking of misbegotten Reaganists, how Gov. Sam Brownback’s Kansas has officially become<\/a> “a Dickensian nightmare”; And Politifact fails again<\/a> in rating Hillary Clinton’s facts<\/i> about the voting rights records of her opponents…<\/p>\n

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