We saw the test case in Ronald Reagan. They hated him too. George Bush was slotted for the 1980 election, and Reagan rained on their parade, BIG TIME.
The party can control a lot. If we’re talking Walker or Cruz, it could manipulate things, and I’m not saying that to put Walker or Cruz down. I’m just being frank about how I see it. The party can’t manipulate things after a populist has already ignited a bonfire of support across party, ethnic, and gender boundaries.
The GOPe is absolutely helpless at this point.
They know it too.
They will continue to prove it’s desperation time, but that’s their only contribution from here on out.
It’s actually over. If Trump wants it, the Presidency is his, for better or worse.
Walker’s a total insider—he even has his WI boy running the RNC!
The GOPe is absolutely helpless at this point.
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I hope you’re right. Very powerful people with abundant resources are working behind the scenes and “convince” others to see it their way. The GOP still has access to an enormous amount of money and knows well how to use it as a political weapon.
If you’ve been watching Boehner and McConnell bully their respective houses recently, you get an idea of how powerful the party apparatus can be I would be very surprised if the party throws in the towel. Again, I would like to be wrong about this and your point about Reagan holds out some hope. But Reagan was a successful governor from a key state. It was hard for the party to resist him. Not so much with Trump. We’ll soon see.