Here's the inimitable, redoubtable Digby again:
Yesterday on MSNBC some South Carolina Republicans were shown Trump being profane and juvenile on the stump and they didn't like it. The implication was that Southerners are more genteel than northeasterners and won't like his crude personality. I don't know if that's true or not but perhaps it is.
What is astonishing to me is that everyone in the Republican Party knows they cannot attack him for his barbaric proposals to deport millions of people, build walls, ban Muslims, kill and torture suspects families, waterboarding "and worse". These are all things the GOP base favors and they dare not challenge it. The only thing they can go after him for are that tepid bowl of mush in the Club for Growth ads, none of which are deal breakers for anyone.
Trump is the ultimate expression of the Republican base and they're stuck with it.
Beautiful! The establishment desperately wants to take Trump down, but he's only articulating -- and trumpeting -- the things the bigoted racist element of the GOP feels, but has felt unable to say.
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