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