Josh Marshall compares Donald Trump and the current disorders of the Republican Party to technical debt, “It’s a build up of what we might call ‘hate debt’ and ‘nonsense debt’ that has been growing up for years.”

This crystallized for me after the last GOP debate when Trump told Chris Cuomo in a post-debate interview that the IRS might be coming after him because he’s a “strong Christian.” Set aside for the moment how this unchurched libertine was able to rebrand himself as a “strong Christian.” What about the preposterous claim that he is being persecuted by the IRS because he is a devout member of the country’s dominant religion? Republicans simply aren’t in any position to criticize this ludicrous claim because they have spent years telling their voters that this sort of thing happens all the time - to Christians, conservatives, everyone the liberals at the IRS hates. And this, of course, is just one example of hate and nonsense debt coming due.

Sounds pretty close to the mark to me.

Link via Nish, who is himself deeply indebted to the New York Mets.