For the first time in years, the Right’s defenses would be completely destroyed, perhaps never to be rebuilt. Swiftly, the courts would be packed with ideologues; immediately, Congress would run through the remaining items on the Obama-Clinton laundry list; before the voters had a chance to stop them, the White House would usher in an irreversible amnesty; and, Trump having been turned into a pariah by a hostile press, his “anti-PC” attitude would be rendered toxic in perpetuity. The likely result of Trump’s selection as the Republican nominee, in other words, would be the entrenchment of all that his supporters claim vehemently to hate. That thrill that his acolytes would feel when they saw Trump named the winner of the primaries? It’d be gone in a matter of minutes.
[this one’s for North]
From: Donald Trump’s 2016 Campaign Must Be Stopped – National Review On-Line
When every election is the most important election of our lifetimes, than no election is the most important election of our lifetimes.Report
Unless every election is more important than the last one, or even a broken theory of history can become true.Report
I think John Cole expressed my thoughts toward Mr. Cooke, but in a much more civil manner than I would.Report
Maybe that is what this country needs, let the liberals pile up the BS up high enough until the pile falls over.Report
The GOP really can’t face that Trump is a creature of their own creation, decades in the making. They just need to sneer about how this is all the fault of dreaded liberals.
Fish them.Report
And, you will all be shocked to learn, one of the chief advocates of “Trump is all the liberals’ fault!” is P J O’Rourke.Report
Nor should they, because it is not true. Trump is his own piece of work. One aspect of our current circumstances which gives Trump appeal has been the elite conspiracy to trash the immigration laws. That’s actually a joint venture of the Democratic Party, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Republican caucus leadership.Report
The “Donald Trump is the fault of the liberal media” and “The liberal media wants Donald Trump to win to help Hillary” memes fall apart as soon as you notice that all of the big investigations into Trump’s shady past (e.g. abuse of H-2 visas, Trump U., etc.) are all being done by the liberal media.Report
The “vast leftwing conspiracy” is just happy to have the GOP establishment out of the race.
Can we say moneypit?
** “vast leftwing conspiracy” is tongue in cheek. i suppose it makes a good euphemism…Report
I’m sure working politicians will be happy to take unsolicited advice on how to proceed from a twentysomething British expat whose experience of electoral campaigns is diddly / squat.Report