Donald Trump reflects the “extremist” values Republicans have been cultivating for decades, while the mainstream media intentionally looked away. Readers weigh in with their perspectives below.  

Forget Trump. It's the people who paved the way for him who seem uncomfortably familiar to an expert on pre-Nazi Germany.

Trump's the symptom, not the disease. The Republican establishment has been infecting the body politic for years.

Appalled at the chaotic GOP presidential race and the ascendancy of Trump and Cruz, those with the gold want to rule.

After years of flirting with America’s right wing and egging on a growing rage, the GOP establishment is "shocked" by Trump's success -- and scrambling to save face.

In a new essay, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write that Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and ultimately run the country into the ground.

Zachary Werrell helped take down former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner. Now he’s taking on the entire Republican establishment.

Ben Carson’s rise to the top of the Republican presidential field shows that many Republicans, especially Christian fundamentalists, have decoupled from the real world — and are proud of it.

It’s hard to imagine a Republican of national stature denouncing his party for being unfair to labor, for being too friendly with Wall Street, for failing to lead. But it happened in 1938.

Republicans are making the Iran talks a partisan domestic issue, refusing to recognize it as a diplomatic victory.