Thursday, March 03, 2016

The Establishment revolts against the revolution against the Establishment

If you were a mole in the Republican Establishment and you wanted to cement Donald Trump's takeover of your party, what could you do to remind everybody what it is that they hate about the Establishment that Donald Trump is so successfully exploiting? 

How about trotting out the guy you nominated last time who has become symbolic of the kind of hollow mediocrity that characterizes the Establishment and putting him on national television to denounce the guy who you've got to know will point to this very television appearance as one more piece of evidence of how utterly incompetent and out of touch the Establishment is?

That's a long sentence, I know. But the short version is this: Putting Mitt Romney on television to try to explain why Donald Trump is bad for the country is about the best gift you could give to Donald Trump and I can't believe anyone--even the boneheads making the decisions for the national party (a rather low standard, I admit)--would think it was a good idea.

The Establishment is going to beat Trump, who is popular precisely because the Establishment doesn't like him, by telling everybody that it doesn't like him.

I just keep reminding myself that all of this is just a reality show written by Donald Trump.
at

1 comment:

  1. Old Rebel6:15 PM

    Meanwhile, the finance minister of Mexico has condemned Trump's proposal to build a protective wall on America's southern border as "an idea based on ignorance and has no foundation in the reality of North American integration."

    Does the good minister really believe he's going to convince Trump supporters to change their minds with that attack? And when exactly did we, the people, agree to "North American integration"?

    ReplyDelete

You are welcome to post at this blog. You are asked, however, to refrain from the following:

1. Name-calling;
2. Questioning the motives or integrity of people you have never met just because you disagree with them;
3. Using obscenities or other expressions not appropriate or necessary to civilized discussion;
4. Taking disagreement personally;
5. Demeaning or insulting remarks.

The host will attempt to abide by the same rules and only asks that you not provide him with the temptation to do so in return by violating them.

Failure to comply with these rules can result (depending solely on the arbitrary and inscrutable will of the host) in the deletion of offending posts and suspension of posting privileges. Such measures are more likely if you post anonymously.