There is an interesting and bright-line difference between the Democrat and Republican parties in the United States. When, in 2008, there arose within the Democrats a charismatic fraud and a charlatan, the old guard and media outlets of this party embraced him enthusiastically and rode him to power. Now, in 2016, when an equivalent bigger-than-life blaggard appears within the Republican party, the establishment of this party disavows him and goes into full panic mode ... trying to excise him like a cancerous tumor.
