Posted on 12/07/2015 6:19:52 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It's time to admit that Donald Trump is fully capable of destroying the Right's chances for the presidency in 2016.
"[W]hatever anguish of spirit it may cost," Patrick Henry said in 1775, "I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." Republicans, and conservatives more generally, would do well to adopt this maxim regarding Donald Trump.
It is less than a year until the 2016 elections, and Trump shows no real signs of going away. The man that should have been a laughable six-week distraction has turned into an incomprehensible near-six-month frontrunner. There is no longer any merit nor utility to pretending he is not a serious threat to the Right's prospects in 2016.
At ThinkProgress last month, Judd Legum cobbled together nearly half a year's worth of the-end-is-near predictions for Trump's campaign, beginning in July. It's been five months of assuming that Trump's bid for the candidacy has been teetering on the brink, while he has steadily creeped upward in the polls. Trump has been towering above the rest of the field since August.
Donald Trump Isn't a Fluke
Ben Carson overtook Trump for about five baffling minutes in early November, after which Carson's numbers dropped sharply. It is perfectly reasonable to assume Carson's numbers will continue to plummet and he will eventually leave the race. It is not quite so reasonable to assume the same about Trump.
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It’s time to admit that Donald Trump is fully capable of destroying the Right’s chances for the presidency in 2016
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Really?
Aside from Cruz, there are no Right candidates.
He must be upset that Trump is capable of winning and destroying The Cheap Labor Express.
Equine excrement from one of the GOPe’s favorite rags.
Look at Hillary—practicing how to surrender to ISIS.
If I were a betting man, I would bet that Trump wins the nomination in a walk.
Great graphics. I might have to borrow one or two.
The GOPee RINOs are simply intolerable!
Trump has to fight the GOPee, the Demorats and the MSM... and he's STILL winning! What a fighter!
Love the next crying game for the rats and the panzie GOP, Trump sed today “ban ALL muslim immigrants from coming to the US” LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!
Something that the inside the beltway crowd hasn’t understood, yet. Trump isn’t playing to them nor their cocktail buddies. The Donald is playing to the American public. That is the reason he hasn’t gone away.
Will he be a disaster come election day? Well, compared to the current disaster living in our White House .. I have to wonder.
He better watch for those low pollers though, I think she has surged to 4%.
Well! McCain wasn't 'right'. Romney wasn't 'right'. Even 'W' wasn't 'right'.
So, who since Reagan was right. No one me thinks.
“It’s time to admit that Donald Trump is fully capable of destroying the Right’s chances for the presidency in 2016.”
Sort of like how McCain and Romney destroyed the Right’s chances for the Presidency in 2008 and 2012?
PING...and yes I pinged you Black Female Army Captain...lol...
‘First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.’
-Mahatma Gandhi
Oh, well.
No he isn’t going away. He is a literal genius manipulating the media. This article really shows exactly where his critics fail. They behave as if someone talking in the common tongue of the electorate and speaking to that electorates emotional passions and feelings is a bad thing. When Trump’s critics speak of “reality” they really mean the reality defined by the Washington DC political class which really wants to transform this nation both Republican and Democrat. Rich Corporatist Republicans want more cheap labor and want to dilute cultural conservatives while the left want to drive an even more aggressive internationalist socialist agenda.
Trump is not perfect but there is a sense that he will not surrender his goals before going all out to achieve them. If they really believed Trump would not have any chance at achieving what he says he wants to achieve they would not behave as if he were a mortal threat to them. Trump and Cruz both have this quality. The Washington DC political class hates them not because they are jokes but because they represent a collective threat to the political status quo and together they have the potential to reverse the trend of American decline. Trump I think is very valuable because he is effectively giving America the permission to be self interested again to be strong again to be the best again.
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