The 5 stages of GOPee grief about a Donald Trump Presidency
Posted on 04/30/2016 7:25:40 AM PDT by 20yearsofinternet
The Stop-Trump fever that gripped the Republican establishment for months has broken.
The walls are closing in around a shrinking band of hard-core opponents of the New York billionaire, who is tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination with big wins in state after state, congressional endorsements, and the acknowledgment from pillars of the GOP elite that Donald Trump will be the party’s standard-bearer.
There was grizzled RNC committeeman Ron Kaufman likening Trump to Reagan. There was Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s half-hearted endorsement of Ted Cruz. There was former House Speaker John Boehner’s confession that he and Trump are texting buddies and golfing partners. There’s the slew of endorsements (and a prediction by Trump campaign officials that another wave is coming after Indiana votes next week). It’s adding up to a slow but steady coalescing around the man once considered so vile to the GOP base that he’d rip the party to shreds.
“We've had enough intraparty fighting. Now's the time to stitch together a winning coalition,” said Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah. “And it's been clear almost from the beginning that Donald Trump has the ability to assemble a nontraditional bloc of supporters. … The ability to cut across traditional party boundaries — like '80, '92 and 2008 — will be key, and Trump is much better positioned to achieve that.”
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My observation is that the Trump fever has broken as the Trump supporters have begun to see a possible victory and have begun to chillax.
Can you blame them for 24/7 MSM and Cruz campaign horse feces spewing how he’s a violent second coming of Hitler racist who hates women? Glad the correct side has come out the winner in that messaging battle.
“It’d hurt the very party that they want to represent,” Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) told POLITICO on Friday. “That’s not good and that’s why I believe that the establishment and people in Washington should say this is over. Donald Trump is clearly, clearly who the people want.”
Amen, Lou.
I used to debate Kyle in high school (the journalist of this piece). Glad to see he’s reporting some good news.
Plus, they finally realized there is a yuge upside to having a growing, energized, expanding, more inclusive Republican party than the one that was dying in place not quite a year ago...
Plus, they finally realized there is a yuge upside to having a growing, energized, expanding, more inclusive Republican party than the one that was dying in place not quite a year ago...
“We are not doing anything in the interest of party unity,” said Katie Packer, founder of the anti-Trump Our Principles PAC, which put out a blistering anti-Trump ad Friday afternoon. “We do not think there is anything noble about wrapping our arms around a candidate who isn’t a Republican, doesn’t have a serious policy agenda and has not secured a majority of Republican votes.”
“I’m willing to do anything in my power to stop Trump from hijacking our party,” Packer continued.
“One advocate of the stop-Trump-at-all-costs approach is Stuart Stevens, a former senior adviser to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Stevens said he’s witnessed the slow acquiescence to Trump by party insiders, but he says he’ll never play along. He said that even if Trump reaches 1,237 bound delegates before the convention, Cruz should use his delegate advantage to block him anyway.
“You should do anything you can that’s within — anything you can legally — to try to win an election,” he said.”
Both Katie Parker and Stuart Stevens are Romney’s people.
Romney is a big participant in the Never Trump plot to defy and disenfranchise the voters.
I hope much madness has departed from both groups. It was getting literally “damned” ugly and the temptation to hit below the belt gripped and moved both groups.
Both Trump and Cruz were sore tested. I think Cruz would be happier in a non presidential role. He wanted to be a servant of God, but God had appointed him to serve in a different post. In the meantime, Trump has at least some vague idea of serving the people. He may not do it well at first, but he improves as he grasps the situation. It’s up to the people in this situation whether, and how, they wish to serve God. Whether they want to defend fig leaves or whether they want to bow to a larger transformation.
As reality sets in they are coming to accept the certainty that one way or another, change for them is in the wind.
Their utter contempt for Cruz is now slowly beginning to over-ride their resentment of a Trump the outsider who promises to end their gravy train.
They know that Cruz is intransigent.
But as they say “Hope springs eternal in the human breast”.
So they still retain a slight hope that they will somehow find a way to corrupt President Trump.
Just as they themselves have been corrupted and in turn have helped corrupt so many others.
It looks to me like the Bush wing are the main holdouts, while the rest of the GOP can see the handwriting on the wall. Witness yesterday where Rubio made peace overtures while Jeb was still trash talking.
My personal theory is that the Bushes have a lot they want to keep hidden, as do the Clintons of course, and both dynasties would rather have Hillary in the White House protecting their secrets than Trump in there exposing everything.
Remember how a big bunch of Bushistas glommed onto the Cruz campaign the minute Rubio crashed and burned? I think they’re the ones trying their best to keep Cruz in this until a contested convention, knowing full well the end result of that is a Hillary presidency.
His supporters aren’t not ‘chillaxing’ until President Trump is sworn in.
Ted Cruz’s demise is just a road apple.
“The 5 stages of GOPe grief about a Donald Trump Presidency”
Thanks!
I’m keeping that one!
Apparently this was never the feeling of the base or they wouldn't have been voting for him. I think the writer meant the GOP establishment.
Thank goodness!
Cruz has injected a level of vileness to this campaign that, frankly, should never be part of any campaign. Aren’t the candidates supposed to be using their campaigns to convince the voters that they are the best for the job, rather than viciously attacking their opponents?
The people have decided that Trump is the man for the job. The next few primaries will confirm that.
It is now time to focus on the Democrat side of things. It looks like Hillary is going to be the nominee. A candidate who is not afraid of violating political correctness will be able to hit her hard on her record. No real world experience, appointed to the State Department on the basis that she was a first lady and wanted the position, spectacular failures as head of the State Department leading to deaths of American citizens, violations of national security with details still being uncovered—there is ample material to attack Hillary on her record. And on the emotional level, Hillary’s screechy yelling hardly makes her appealing.
Is he related to Dick Cheney?
lol
They don’t realize what populist means.
It could be a great danger or it could be a great safety. But it looks like it is what the US political system has to fall back on, the old republican system with its elites having rotten and fallen into folly.
You feed a sick person almost anything to get him to get better, even if no healthy person would make a steady diet of it.
I see a possible parallel with the current “bathroom fury.” I’ve criticized that pretty harshly as being horribly unbalanced in having overlooked far worse factors, but if finally it causes the truth to dawn on people that God gave a gift and we’ve ALL been misusing it and it has left us weak before the devil, then a healing might take place that goes beyond bathrooms. Sometimes the boil must fester and burst before the flesh heals.
“Inclusive” is an easily abusable word.
There’s a difference between reaching out and having a rapport with some degree of friendliness, and selling out to the max.
Yet if the GOP can serve as a center towards which people are called towards a degree of sanity, well this will be yuge. There has been a “big tent” aspiration for a long time in the GOP.
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