I totally understand where you are coming from, but consider the term ‘traditional’ here in the context of ‘Republican’.
The GOP has stood by and let us get robbed, beaten, insulted, and see our children put at risk. They’ve stood by and allowed the entire education system, including universities, to become expensive re-education camps.
THOSE Republicans (McCain, Romney - both presidential candidates) have a deep distate for him. The current GOP would have him dead.
The convention was a family affair and no real GOP present at all. None. Rand Paul, Giuliani, some CANDIDATES. Governors with a full set of balls (Kristi Noem, and consider the irony there for a moment).
Mayors, police officers, widows, even three-time convicted felons and the agent who arrested him.
I have to say, I totally agree with the author’s statement here. The mainstream GOP, the party itself, would rather kill Donald Trump than support him. I fully believe that.
"I have to say, I totally agree with the author’s statement here.
The mainstream GOP, the party itself, would rather kill Donald Trump than support him.
I fully believe that." Nonsense.
The worst you can say about any politician is they want to win elections, at all costs, and with (what is it?) 95%+ of Republican voters supporting the President, no sane Republican politician is going to pick unnecessary fights with him.
And what, exactly, is different about the "Trump doctrine"?
Only this: he is in your face about putting Americans first and he just doesn't like the old Bush-McCain-Romney-Kasich-etc. style of "leadership".
But who does?
No real Republican voters I know of.
Today's Republican never-Trumpers are like that wicked Witch of the East after Dorothy threw MAGA water on her -- disappearing into a puddle of... unpleasantness. ![]()