Donald Trump is a petty, vindictive, racist ignoramus and pathological liar who resonates powerfully with the base of the Republican party for the simple reason that they are, in the main, petty, vindictive ignorami who have been trained by decades of conditioning via Fox News and Hate Radio to mindlessly accept as gospel any comforting nonsense that comes from the mouths of pathological Republican liars.

I don't know how many different ways we can say it.

A = C
B = C
Therefor A = B.

Trump is the Party and the Party is Trump. How much walloping-them-in-the-head-with-a-shovel does this has to be before the media will start speaking of our national political disaster in those terms?