Trump’s Republican Party must regain its moral compass, or dissolve

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Here’s what’s most troubling about the prominent Republicans who have deserted Donald Trump because of the video in which he made revolting remarks about women: Many of those same people stood by him for more than a year while he made almost daily statements demeaning Hispanics, as if that were OK.

Something has gone fundamentally wrong with the Republican Party. From a practical standpoint, the party — which has been hijacked by right wing white nationalists fed with a constant stream of conspiracy theories by Fox News — has ignored one of the main lessons of its 2012 defeat.

In a 100-page, 2012 election post-mortem by the Republican National Committee released in March 2013, the party concluded that it had lost in part because it had alienated Hispanic voters with its anti-immigration stands.

The document recommended endorsing comprehensive immigration reform — a code word for the Obama-backed idea of giving most undocumented immigrants a path to legalization under certain conditions. The analysis warned that “if we do not, our party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.”

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