The fight for the GOP nomination is starting to yield the comedic absurdity we all expected.   

 … as companies move to distance themselves from the candidate who said that undocumented immigrants from Mexico “killers and rapists.” On Monday, NBC cut ties with Trump and on Wednesday, Macy’s announced it would stop carrying merchandise from his brand.

The only surprise is that not only is Donald Trump at the controls of the GOP flaming kamikaze, but that he’s flying it straight at the party itself,

 “The fact that Donald Trump is exposing a lot of the dirty truths of the Republican party is good in the sense that we want an honest debate,”   Artuo Carmona, Exective Director of latino advocacy group Presente Action to Think Progress.

and, of course, they can’t get out of their own way.

One group that hasn’t yet cut ties with the real estate mogul is the Republican Party. While NBC, Univision and Macy’s have publicly denounced his beliefs, members of the Republican party have remained silent or have expressed their support for his anti-immigrant sentiment. On Tuesday, 2016 candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), whose father is Cuban, defended his opponent, saying, “I like Donald Trump. I think he’s terrific, I think he’s brash, I think he speaks the truth.”