The full array of individuals seeking the Republican nomination was unrelievedly repugnant: clowns all, but each with his or her uniquely unpleasant and insulting variation. It is commonly assumed that its successful nominee hijacked the Republican Party. His constituents, with fulsome media connivance, led him speech by speech, rally by rally, primary by primary to full out public self-parody. Early in the appallingly long campaign for the U.S. presidency, Carly Fiorina's ex-husband said of her and of the Republican side of the race: "In the clown car that is the Republican Party, she's the ultimate clown." In many ways their ultimate nominee was the appropriate distillation of their meanness and vitriol, a man who reliably offered up "BS on stilts."

Source: Huffington Post November 08, 2016 08:02 UTC