Bizarro World: GOP establishment embraces Donald Trump, bashes National Review

The Republican party is now officially in total disarray.

Donors are fleeing from Jeb!, because the annointed successor failed to actually be annointed. His idealogical clones (Rubio, Kasich, Christie) have likewise been unable to obtain traction outside of the country club set. Upstart Ted Cruz is Public Enemy Number One at RNC Headquarters, because he's actually got a plan to shrink government, when the GOP establishment is, and always will be, content to go along to get along, so long as their personal perks and prestige are protected.

Which leaves us with Donald Trump.

I had hoped, rather naively it turns out, that the Republican party would co-opt Trump's message.

Nope. They've gone and been co-opted by Trump.

They're now in bed with the devil. Because the devil has whispered sweet nothings in their ear.

Donald Trump is as Big Government as Big Government gets.

In fact, as The Lonely Conservative so artfully put it, "Donald Trump embodies everything we have been against for the past 8 years, but he says what people want to hear on immigration and suddenly nothing else matters. Why doesn't anyone care that he helped to elect the people that have done so much damage? I just don't get it."

Donald Trump's political donation list reads like a Who's Who of ultraliberal progressive elites. Hillary and Bill Clinton. Harry Reid. Ted Kennedy. Nancy Pelosi. Chuck Schumer. Bill de Blasio. Hundreds of thousands of Trump dollars have funded liberals and their causes.

This is a Republican?. This is a Conservative?

Which brings us to the Bizarro World part. National Review, as of late the official house organ of establishment Republicans, suddenly woke up from their Rich Lowry / Jonah Goldberg induced stupor long enough to denounce Trump.

Leading to them being summarily excommunicated by the RNC.

Tonight National Review was disinvited from the February GOP debate after its very public rebuke of Donald Trump.

This is the very same debate from which the RNC banished NBC for the antics of their CNBC subsidiary at a prior debate, only to replace them with the Clinton News Network (CNN). Presumably because Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper are more sympathetic to the conservative cause, and NPR said "no."

In other words, Reince Priebus has jumped the shark.

Oh, sure, I see what he's trying to do.

He's using Trump to take down Cruz, and then he'll try cutting Trump off at the knees so Jeb! can ride in on his white horse.

But if I can see through his paper-thin strategy, so can Donald Trump, because Trump has bested guys ten times smarter than the genius Priebus believes himself to be.

Not that it'll do the country any good mind you. In many ways, Donald Trump is worse for America than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. In that regard NR is right, even as their self-immolation becomes apparent.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are lining up behind their own demagogue as the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua seems destined to finally join the Orange Suit Club.

A Trump - Sanders face off would be entertaining to say the least. But regardless of who wins, We The People will lose, big time. And any hope for a restoration of our Republic would fade into oblivion, never to be seen again.

Epitaph for a great nation: The people have spoken. And now the people must be punished.

Posted at 11:30 by Chris Wysocki   [/gop]   Comments | Perm Link |
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