Posted on 03/09/2016 5:33:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It's now obvious that the only alternative to Trump is Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
To appreciate how extraordinary and disturbing this situation really is, we must take a historical trip back to a simpler, more innocent time, aka last year. Back then, Nate Silver's justly respected website FiveThirtyEight.com was practically certain of two things: The two candidates in the very crowded Republican presidential field who had no shot at the nomination were Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
They had no real chance, the site argued, because Trump and Cruz were each in their own way far too radical candidates for the GOP to actually nominate. Trump's radicalism is too obvious to belabor. The idea that a virulently racist demagogue, proto-fascist authoritarian strongman, and self-parodying cultural caricature left over from the 1980s could win the Republican nomination for president was crazy on its face, as all reasonable people observed last summer.
As for Ted Cruz, his radicalism was of a different sort than Trump's, but in many ways he was an even more extreme character. FiveThirtyEight.com pointed out that Cruz was not merely very conservative, but radically right-wing, to an extent never before seen in modern American presidential elections.
This November Americans will likely face the choice of voting for either, on the one hand, the contemporary equivalent of Eisenhower, and on the other, either a quasi-fascist at the head of a bargain basement cult of personality, or someone who thinks Barry Goldwater was too liberal.
What the very smart people at FiveThirtyEight.com missed, in other words, is that the GOP has been taken over by the most radical forces in an already-radicalized party. No wonder that, in the space of a few months, the almost inconceivable has become the all-but inevitable.
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What the he’ll are you smoking. The hand of God is on the side of we the people period. Ted Cruz is an inexperienced party bitch
Red herring.
Now, post a list of Cruz campaign people that have been arrested for voter intimidation.
They were your comments, genius. Now, read post #38 again and see if you can figure it out.
Hopefully Cruz campaigns harder than ever and gets more votes/delegates than Trump.
Sure God makes the sun shine and the rain fall on both the just and the unjust. But God is just and He punishes iniquity. I don't believe Trump fears Him.
Salon? Really? We are now posting anti Trump garbage from Salon?
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