To
the extent it's still standing after yesterday, the Stop Trump movement
is comforting itself with the world's biggest lie: that John Kasich is
the embodiment of the Republican Party, while Donald Trump is the
bastard stepchild.
It's exactly the opposite.
It is no longer a question of what the party wants. The voters --
remember them? -- keep showering Trump and Cruz with Ceausescu-like
percentages. The combined vote for Trump and Cruz is a ringing chorus
of what this party wants: a wall, deportation, less immigration and no
job-killing trade deals.
How
many more GOP stars will die for mass immigration? So far, there's Eric
Cantor, Nikki Haley, Trey Gowdy, Ben Sasse, Paul Ryan, Fox News -- 14
governors, 22 senators and two dozen representatives.
In other words, what the party wants is the diametric opposite of what
the donor and consultant class wants. One would have to search the
history books to find a party establishment so emphatically rejected by
the voters as today's Republican Party has been.
Trump and Cruz don't agree on everything -- Cruz is more
interventionist on foreign policy, and Trump is more aggressive on
bringing manufacturing home. But there's not much daylight between them
on the crucial issue of whether to dissolve America's borders. By now,
they both say build a wall, reduce immigration and protect American
jobs.
In other words, Trump and Cruz have totally rejected the
Bush/Ryan/Rubio/Fox News/WSJ/RNC establishment position on immigration.
After Mitt Romney lost an election he should have won in 2012, the
Republican National Committee convened a group of experts to determine
what went wrong, producing what it called an "autopsy." It was an
autopsy because, you see, the party was dead. And the people who did
the autopsy were the ones who killed it.
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If there is any salvation for the Stupid Party - and that's a yuge sized "if" when viewed from my porch - it will be from outside the donor class who think they own this country.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the donor class observe no actual party affiliations and would feel just as comfortable with a Donk in charge as a genuine conservative, if not more so.
Sir H the Comet
The news is a bitch but the photo is an A+.
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