Monday letters: GOP leaders created Trump

Republican voters have finally had enough of GOP establishment globalists like Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and now Paul Ryan. It hasn’t mattered one iota if people voted in droves for Republicans, because nothing changed.

A Republican-controlled Congress has surrendered its authority to the executive branch under the auspices of the Trans-Pacific Partnership; has allowed unelected bureaucrats to write burdensome regulations, while walking lock-step with Barack Obama and his vision of an ever-increasing federal budget, more debt and more federal intrusion; presided over a dying middle class; allowed a weaker military; and given its approval to Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch as attorney general and Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan as Supreme Court justices.

At the same time, party “leaders” have laughingly dismissed the party’s base and reasoned conservative voices like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jeff Sessions and Mike Lee.

Thus we have an election where the GOP frontrunner is Donald Trump. If the GOP “leadership” had done its job, there would be no need for a populist Donald Trump. They have no one to blame but themselves.