Bill Moyers is known

as a middle of the road, voice of reason, who hasn't commented on this year's race for prez, until now.

Mr. Moyers’ commentary below displays both his utter disdain for and deep fear of “Trumpism”.  He clearly and forcefully demonstrates that Mr. Trump is the most dangerous demagogue in American history (albeit just the latest in a long and sordid line, including Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace and the odious Joe McCarthy – who came the closest of all to wielding truly destructive national power when Americans were feeling insecure and afraid, the soil in which demagogues flourish).

But not one of these pernicious American demagogues has ever risen to become the presumptive presidential nominee of one of our two political parties (quite naturally, the GOP - which for the last fifty years has been pedaling poisonous, paranoid propaganda to pander to the lowest common denominator of the American Id). 

We are in totally uncharted territory now.  Anyone who blithely dismisses Trump as a bizarre and temporary aberration who could never become president has quite obviously not been paying attention for the last year, as the Trump 'virus' has taken over.
Today its carrier is Donald Trump, but others came before him: narcissistic demagogues who lie and distort in pursuit of power and self-promotion. Bullies all, swaggering across the landscape with fistfuls of false promises, smears, innuendo and hatred for others, spite and spittle for anyone of a different race, faith, gender or nationality. And through it all, “Republicans Are Twisting Themselves Into Pretzels To Defend Donald Trump.”
 
The good news? It should be the end of the GOP as we know it. YAHOO!