Dear Editor:
With Donald Trump the presumptive Republican Party candidate for president, the Republican party's history of bigotry, xenophobia and misogyny is given an open microphone.
To Rep. Ryan and many other Republicans, Trump's only sin is to say out loud what they have been saying for years with nuanced meanings and coded language.
Trump makes plain murderous attacks on Latinos, women, Muslims and anyone who dares challenge him. Megyn Kelly deserves a Presidential Metal of Freedom for confronting him early on.
Republican respect for women is an illusion. They oppose all sexual equality laws and ridicule or otherwise launch personal attacks against any woman who dares demonstrate a modicum of intelligence or ambition.
In national and state legislatures they make every effort to control a woman's decisions about her own life, her health and her body.
With Trump, a woman is only about body. He labels a woman as either a 10 or ugly based on his judgment of her sexual attractiveness. Of Carly Fiornia he said, "Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that?"
Trump spews Republican opposition to multiculturalism as a corner stone to his campaign. He will make Americans great again by deporting millions of Mexicans, who he labels as rapists, and baring Muslims from entry.
He falsely claims San Diego is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. That the city has a large Hispanic population and is adjacent to Tijuana is quite obvious.
After the Orlando shootings at the gay night club, he credits himself for being right about preventing Muslims from entering the country. Never mind that the shooter was a natural born citizen who hated gays.
Among the tenets of modern conservatism is promotion of individual liberty, life, property and democratic institutions referred to as American exceptionalism. These they seek to export overseas.
But at home they pass voter ID laws with the intention of suppressing voting participation by Black Americans and other minorities.
While there is little evidence of voter fraud, Trump takes the restrictive rules further than other Republicans by claiming there's an epidemic of illegal voting by undocumented immigrants. Thus he legitimizes his plan to deport them en masse.
So what are the principles on which Trump will run his campaign? Fear of Latin Americans, fear of young black men, fear of Muslims and denigration of intelligent and competent women such as Hillary Clinton, Megyn Kelly, Elizabeth Warren.
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