WashPost’s Robinson: Trump Is ‘Driving a Truck Bomb into the Middle of the Republican Party’

December 30, 2015 | 1:45 PM EST

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

While the left constantly goes after conservatives for any and all rhetoric they view as inciting violence, they almost never follow their own prescriptions and that was certainly the case on Tuesday night as MSNBC’s The Last Word featured liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson warning that Trump has marked the end of the Republican as he’s been “driving a truck bomb into the middle of the Republican Party.”

Host Lawrence O’Donnell teased Robinson’s appearance with anticipation right off the top of the show: “Well, it's the end of the Republican Party as we know it. According to my first guest, who has seen it all in American politics, but has never seen anything like Trump.”