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Are Republican Voters Over Trump?
Donald Trump seems to be hurting the Republican Party more than he is helping it.
For fans of the hit television series, Downton Abbey, there was a clear moment in the show when the veils of period-perfect costumes and gorgeous sets were torn away to reveal a bitter truth.
In season three (spoiler alert) main character “Matthew Crawley,” having only just survived World War I, is tragically killed in an automobile accident driving home from the hospital, after holding his firstborn infant son in his arms for the first — last, and only — time.
That’s when audiences knew: Downton Abbey, for all its historical grandeur and attention to detail, was nothing but a glorified soap opera. It was a modern-day Dallas with better clothes. All My Children without Susan Lucci.
It was far from the genteel Jane Austen novel many thought they were getting; instead, audiences were getting Oliver Twist.
Isn’t it time for Republican Party voters to reexamine what they thought they were getting, and what they are actually getting, from former-President Donald Trump?
American politics has been turned into one big reality television show grudge match.
The stakes are higher than Survivor, the arguments are pettier than Big Brother, and there is more constant…