Writing for American Thinker this Saturday morning, commentator Eugene Slaven warned us Republicans to avoid becoming victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a debilitating condition that compels conservatives into violating former President Ronald Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”

“What Trump’s Republican detractors don’t realize is that their Trump Derangement Syndrome is playing directly into the left’s hands,” Slaven wrote.

“That’s because the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, overwhelmed by the Islamic terrorist threat whose name they lack the moral courage to even utter, use the GOP’s vociferous condemnation of Trump to distract Americans from the Democrats’ abject failures.”

Bingo! If you want to issue fair criticism against Trump’s ideas, then be my guest.

But for the love of God, please avoid becoming one of those self-harming addlepates who respond to Trump by simply yelling out “racist,” Islamophobe” or “Nazi!”

Like Slaven opined, “It’s perfectly reasonable for Trump’s rivals to voice their disagreements with Trump, but there’s a fine line between disagreeing with and joining the Democrats and the media in obsessively denouncing a single candidate.”

Moreover, the disparaging attacks against both Trump and his supporters only serve to bolster the Left’s spurious point about all conservatives allegedly being racists and Trump’s rhetoric “somehow helping ISIS.”

What then should we as Republicans do?

We should quickly issue our criticism of Donald Trump’s ideas when necessary and then refocus our critiques back on Obama’s failed administration and the two Democrat presidential candidates — Dumb

andDumber— who want continue with the same sorts of policies that got us here in the first place.

“If Republicans want to win next November, they need to focus on Obama’s failed track record and on counterattacking the leftist demagogues who are scapegoating them as ISIS’s main enablers, not obsessively denouncing Donald Trump’s proposals,” Slaven concluded.

Indeed. If we want to win the 2016 election, we need to stop wasting so much energy attacking one another — particularly Trump — and set our sights on the real targets!

Agree or disagree?





