It's no fun being part of the chorus in the GOP's Greek tragedy

As if nominating and- far more worrisome- lining up behind a president so unfit for the office that the damage his election would do to the country would inevitably result in Democrats controlling the presidency and both houses of Congress for a generation, the Republicans- who need to seriously consider changing their party symbol from an elephant to a lemming- have taken their self-destructive lunacy even further.

First, after a generation of railing against the national debt and bemoaning the historic increase in the debt under Barack Obama, they adopt a so-called "tax reform bill" which the CBO estimates will add a trillion dollars to the debt while hitting the poorest Americans hardest and stimulating the economy to a degree with will earn only a third of that back.

And now they're looking at Medicare and Medicaid cuts as a way of controlling the debt!

My former party could not do better if it had hired somebody to plan its own self-destruction, especially with a midterm election coming up next year which already seems poised to return the Democrats to control of Congress.

In Greek tragedy, a chorus speaking in unison provided a running, objective commentary outside the events of the play "warning" the characters of the coming consequences of their own actions. The Age of Trump will go down in history as the age of Republican self-destructiveness. It's no fun being part of a Greek chorus. Believe me, I will take no pleasure in seeing exactly what I've been predicting since the day it became clear that Donald Trump would be nominated coming to pass exactly as I predicted it.

But good grief, guys. Do you really have to be so zealous about helping things along?