If Seventy-Five Trees Fall In A Forest, Does It Make A Sound?

Seventy- five prominent Republican foreign policy and national security leaders have issued an open letter saying they will not support a Republican ticket headed by neo- fascist hairball Donald "Rump" Trump.  The letter was signed by notables such as Dumbya's Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff,  his Homeland Security advisor Frances Townsend, his State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen, his U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, academic Niall Ferguson, and consultant Robert Kagan.  The list comprises a virtual "who's who" in the "establishment" Republican foreign and national security community.

The letter provides a bill of particulars for why Rump is a dangerous, unfit person to be trusted with the power of the Office of President.  The letter concludes:

Mr. Trump’s own statements lead us to conclude that as president, he would use the authority of his office to act in ways that make America less safe, and which would diminish our standing in the world. Furthermore, his expansive view of how presidential power should be wielded against his detractors poses a distinct threat to civil liberty in the United States. Therefore, as committed and loyal Republicans, we are unable to support a Party ticket with Mr. Trump at its head. We commit ourselves to working energetically to prevent the election of someone so utterly unfitted to the office.

While we applaud any and all efforts to expose Rump's demagoguery and the dangers to American democracy and world peace he represents, we'd like to make two additional points:

--  Once again, except in style and presentation, how different are Rump's foreign "policy" bleatings more radical or dangerous than those of his proximate rivals, Sen. "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz and Sen. Marco "Roboto" Rubio?  While Rump uses hateful, racist and xenophobic bullhorn language to communicate his outrageous views, Cruz and Rubio are to a large extent given a pass on their equally outrageous nonsense on immigration and just bombing sh*t simply because of Rump's larger- than- life assholery.  Will these same "committed and loyal Republicans" have anything to say in the unlikely event Rump is not the head of the ticket, but one of these two are?  We seriously doubt it.

--  As Rump's authoritarian brother from a different mother Josef Stalin once said, "The Pope!  How many divisions has he got!?"  How likely is a letter from 50 players in the Republican (i.e., Dumbya) "national security community" to make a dent in support among the legions of  birdbrain Stormtrumpers, most of whom have never heard of these people, nor do they care about what they think.  After you've spent decades demonizing people as Republicans of all stripes have done, it's hard to be credible when the purest culmination of that strategy of stoking fear, anger and hate bubbles up right under your noses in the form of a pumpkin- hued neo- fascist.