Perception is reality. I keep saying that. The perception now is widespread that the GOP is deliberately trying to squeeze out the voters.
Rush can blame Trump, but he might want to blame the GOP and its tone-deafness. It’s one thing to exclude voters IF you come to the same position they want. No one would be concerned if CO, for example, had secretly met and given Trump 15-20% of the delegates, and Cruz the rest.
But when you do stuff without the voters and come to a different result than the one they obviously want (as seen by the recent Magellan poll of CO), then you have problems. Then perception IS reality.
” The perception now is widespread that the GOP is deliberately trying to squeeze out the voters.”
And while that view once might have been confined only to activists at FR it’s way bigger than that now.
The hacks haven’t caught on yet. They can’t control the message or the debate in the decentralized world of the internet.