Yup. Trump needs an intact GOP onboard with his policies, he needs advocates throughout the party. I predict Trump is going to extend an olive branch to key members across the isle as well. The one massive flaw with Obama is his utter and total failure to sign the GOP onto his agenda (it would have necessitated compromise—heaven forbid Mr. Pen and Phone) and now we’ll see how that blunder unfolds as everything Obama forced through will be swept into the trashcan where it belongs. Actually, I’m very glad Obama was such a prick, we can rewind back to Bush and pretend he never existed.
Much what I was thinking.
If Romney gets the job, I won’t be HAPPY, but I’m pretty sure that Trump will have wrested a good deal out of the RINOs in exchange.
Unfortunately we only have a conservative plurality at best, and if the RINOs aren’t on board, even reluctantly, Trump isn’t going to get a whole lot done. That requires compromise, even the distasteful kind of compromise.
If it means stomaching Romney until he does something stupid or selfish enough to get fired in exchange for getting Sessions confirmed as AG, so be it.