Will the GOP repudiate Trump’s cruelty to a fallen soldier’s family?; Washington Post, 7/31/16

E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post; Will the GOP repudiate Trump’s cruelty to a fallen soldier’s family? :

"Every Republican politician and commentator who continues to say that Trump is a superior or even morally equivalent choice to Hillary Clinton will now own their temporary leader’s brutality for the rest of their political careers.

Many humane Republicans know this. Ohio Gov. John Kasich spoke for them when he tweeted that “there’s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect.”

This is a moment of truth for GOP leaders who passively accepted and sometimes encouraged an extremism that trafficked in religious and racial prejudice and painted President Obama as an illegitimate, power-hungry leader."