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Trumps owns the populist lane, Cruz owns the conservative lane and the establishment lane is traffic rush hour jammed.
My take on last night is Trump will most likely win the Republican nomination. The General election I am not as sure of. Cruz and Trump are fighting for the same voters, and Cruz does not stand a chance. The establish lane is really muddy and I would like to think someone could emerge to challenge Mr. Trump, but I don’t see it. They will all knock each other out. If Cruz does stay in the race for a long time then it will just take Trump a little longer. My favorite Marc Rubio as of now is a very long chance to win the nomination, though I still believe he is our strongest general election candidate. I will vote for whoever wins gladly.
Could not agree more and am happy if Cruz or Trump wins. Either one of them will drive the Establishment crazy.
I like and will vote for Cruz, but am happy to see Trump become a pox on both houses.
I’d vote for anyone over Hillary. I support the process and will vote for the GOP nominee. Although I prefer Trump, I’d vote for Cruz. I hope the Cruz supporters will do the same.
Makes sense—best analysis I’ve read do far.
The GOPe is already running anti-Trump ads this morning. Anyone who thinks Jeb and Rubio are dead is fooling themselves. The next few weeks are going to be bloody.
Unfortunately, it isn’t quite armageddon for the establishment. The combined establishment vote (Rubio, Jeb, Kasich, Christie, Fiorina) is basically equal to the combined anti-establishment (Trump, Cruz) vote. What’s holding the establishment back is that at the moment they’re splitting the vote in more directions than we are, and that may change soon as lower-tier establishment candidates start to drop out.
“Trump is still unacceptable to a lot of GOP voters (including no small number of folks here at NRO)”
Question for NRO. Are Bernie and Hillary also unacceptable to the crew at NRO? And when Trump is the GOP nominee, are ya’ll gonna vote for the Democrat, vote 3rd party, or simply not vote at all, helping to hand over our country to an avowed Communist or a traitor who would be in prison under any other circumstance?
So, it turns out that after 8 years of conservative critics of Barack Obama throwing the epithet “socialist” carelessly around, they have taken all the sting out of the word! Congratulations Bernie Sanders! Game-changer, folks! Republicans (and you too, Mrs. Clinton) had better figure out quick that whenever they use the word as a shorthand insult they are labelling themselves as burned-out, used-up cold warriors with nothing interesting to say about, let alone prescribe for, the problems of 2016. What is a nation-state for anyway, if not to tackle large problems with collective action anyway? Riddle me that.
The one bright spot around the hideous Republican embrace of Trump is that it shows that ideological silos are crumbling-Trump (awful as he is) is more liberal than many sitting democratic members of congress.