A brief history of the paternity fight over America's most famous political bastard:

How The Left Created Donald Trump -- The Federalist

The Republican Party Created Donald Trump -- Ewick son of Ewick

The G.O.P. Created Donald Trump --  from Nicholas Kristof in the NYT 

How David Brooks Created Donald Trump -- A Cato Institute goof writing in Forbes -- "The irony is that David Brooks, Barack Obama and their respective tribes bear much of the responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump."

How Sarah Palin Created Donald Trump -- Molly Ball in The Atlantic

The Bushes Created Trump: GOP establishment has no one to blame but itself -- Laura Ingraham

How Conservatism Created Donald Trump -- New York Magazine


Who Created a Perfect Trump Storm? -- Commentary Magazine

A monster the GOP could’ve avoided: The conservative establishment created Trump—and now they can’t destroy him -- Bob Cesca in Salon

The GOP’s Anti-Government Line created Trump -- Juan Cole


Donald Trump is the monster the GOP created -- Dana Milbank in the WaPo

How did this monster get created? The decades of GOP lies that brought us Donald Trump, Republican front-runner -- Heather Cox Richardson in Salon

How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump: The American left created Donald Trump. -- The Daily Beast (and re-linked all over the Right)

Republicans Created Trump, They Must Stand Up to Him -- HuffPo

How Obama Created Trump --  Glenn Beck (audio)

GOP Elitists Created Trump --  Jeffry Katz, radio

How David Brooks' Fake Conservatism Created Donald Trump's Fake Conservatism:  The Odious Ben Shapiro at The Daily Wire

National Review Created Trump? -- Ricochet

Bill Maher and Seth Macfarlane Rip PC Culture 'That Created Donald Trump'


How Obama Created The Demand For Trump --  Some UK wingnut

The Rats Are Fleeing The Sinking Ship As Rush Limbaugh Blames Obama For Trump --  PoliticsUSA

GOP ‘Race Baiting’ Created Trump -- Nia-Malika Henderson via NewsBusters

Trump Creationism: Who's Responsible for Creating Donald Trump? --  The Odious Weekly Standard  [Spoiler:  It's the damn Liberals!]

Republican & Democratic establishments created the Tea Party & Donald Trump -- A site called "WB Daily"

We Didn’t Start The Fire: So Who Created Trump? -- Matt Lewis promoting his crappy book


The Federalist's Ben Domenech: 'Both Sides Are Responsible For Donald Trump' -- From Crooks & Liars


How Fox News Helped Create The Donald Trump-enstein: The Video -- From Crooks & Liars


GOP establishment created the vacuum that Trump is filling -- The American Family Association (video)

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."