'BradCast' 10/14/2016 (The meltdown began long before Trump)

Published: Oct. 15, 2016, 12:15 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast', we peer into the rancid dark heart of the Republican Party meltdown and the trauma all Americans have been\xa0 forced through to get there. But this meltdown began long before the campaign of Donald Trump, whose angry, dangerous, paranoid speech in West Palm Beach, FL on Thursday offered just a glimpse into the party's decades-long lurch towards the fact-free 'reality' they've created for all of us. No longer tethered to facts or truth, but to a nominee who reflects the very xenophobic, nativist, racist, and misogynistic tactics employed for political gain over at least the last two Presidential Administrations, the beginning of a reckoning may finally be in sight. Yet, even those GOPers who finally understand some of this -- and many in the corporate media who've enabled it for so long -- still fail to grasp the gravity of the moment and the traumatic stress this nation faces in the bargain.\xa0 And yet, even with all of that, our message today: We're going to be okay, there is a way out..