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America has had a number of bad Presidents. James Buchanan, John Tyler and Warren Harding come to mind. These truly despicable men look like Washington and Lincoln rolled into one compared to Donald Trump.

His administration has been a tragic farce since election night. I cannot bring to mind a single thing that he has done that is remotely in the interest of the nation or the American people. His use of his high office to expand his personal and family fortune overseas while attempting to deprive millions of American citizens of health care is merely one of his mortal sins.

Yet Donald Trump is no fluke. He is the culmination of the self-degradation of the Republican Party. The Republican Party has had an up and down history. Republicans and War Democrats saved the American Republic in the Civil War. During the Robber Baron Era, Republicans aided and abetted railroad, steel, coal and oil tycoons when they plundered the nation creating monopolies, exploiting workers, native Americans and the environment on the way to making enormous fortunes.

But it was progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and W. H. Taft along with Democrat Woodrow Wilson that tamed the monopolies and curbed the super wealthy. They created the income tax, the inheritance tax and gave women the vote. They broke up the trusts and monopolies.

After World War 1, the Republicans sold their souls to the exploding oil industry and set the stage for the Great Depression. Post World War 2 moderate Republicans opted for smaller government and less spending. This created the Eisenhower recession and lost the early space race to the Russians.

Then after the go-go 60s, Nixon made a devils deal with the segregated South and opted for an ends justifies the means philosophy which gave us Watergate. Ronald Reagan, everybodys friendly dependable grandpa, gave us two recessions and sowed the seeds of the American Middle Class demise. The Bushes gave us economic disaster and endless war. Now to correct the good things developed during the Clinton and Obama eras, we have Donald Trump.

Clearly, his actions before and after the election, show that he has no self-control let alone the capacity to lead the nation. Yet he alone among the 16 candidates won the Republican nomination. He won not despite his obvious character flaws but because of them. Since Nixon the Republicans have peddled the message of race hate as sub-text. Welfare had to go because it allowed lazy black people and immigrants to sit around smoking crack and drinking grape soda.

These lazy welfare types were also the ones stealing white middle class jobs. Propaganda doesnt need to be rational to be effective. Heres another one, Wheres my government cheese? This evokes an image of fat poor people feasting on brie and camembert. Government cheese was a welfare program built for Midwest Republican dairy farmers.

Nixon didnt believe this stuff. He and the Republicans who followed him used these nefarious ploys to get votes. The new Republican conservatives have swallowed the cheese Kool Aid. They believe this nonsense. Republicans like Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Sam Brownback are absolutely giddy at the thought of tossing unworthy ethnic types and poor white trash off of health care. My point being that Trump is merely a symptom of the collective mental illness of the Republican leadership.

I make this point because soon the historic failure of the conservative Republican attempt to push America back into an imaginary whites only past will be heaped on Trump. The very people who created this monster will turn on him. Sen. John McCain is already striking a Hey it wasnt me stance on foreign policy. The anti-government ideologues will claim that Trumps inept execution of their gated City on the Hill plan was the problem.

But its not Trump. As bad as he is; it is the plan. It is the Republican Partys romance with money. No taxes on the big guys is not only unfair, it doesnt work. The money pools up and the economy slows down. Public/private partnerships have been tried; they are expensive failures. Running government like a business is a nice bumper sticker but 85 percent of businesses fail.

Governments are meant to serve. Businesses are meant to make money. Most disturbing is the Republicans almost unanimous backing of Trump when he threatens the courts, the FBI, the press and his opposition.

Back in the Fifties the Communist Party was accused of attempting to overthrow the U.S. Government. The investigators when questioning witnesses always asked; Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? Will we soon hear the phrase, Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?

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EYES LEFT: Are you now or have you ever been a Republican? - New Jersey Hills