INCREDIBLE.
He mentions Sharron Angle and O’Donnell as examples of people The Establishment opposed, which is certainly true, but he doesn’t explain how either of them still WON THE NOMINATION - which is the crux of this article.
How about Cruz? He was HATED by The Establishment when he ran for Senate, but showed that he was more than up to the job. Similar for Rubio...although in a twisted way. The establishment did not want Rubio at all, as he certainly campaigned as a conservative - they wanted Orange Man, but Rubio did win and now he’s The Establishment’s lap dog.
He mentions Newt, who flamed out. Newt was TOTAL FLAKE from the day he became House Speaker (before that, he seemed rather conservative and steady). Newt acting weird was nothing new. As for 2012, Newt had NO MONEY...on that I can agree with him, if you have no money, you can’t fight back. Trump is different - of course he has money, but since announcing he has not done a SINGLE THING to anger conservatives - about the closest he came was getting a bit squishy about the Illegals already here - something that no one else is bothering to address either. Newt was flakey and broke from the day he entered national politics, he was the EXACT OPPOSITE of Trump.
I think his point was that in spite of winning the nomination of their party in the primaries, the RNC still torpedoed the candidates in the general. Because they’d (the RNC) a democrat win than a conservative.
They did the same thing to Bret Schundler in NJ gubernatorial race in the early 2000’s.