Posted on 12/29/2015 11:16:25 AM PST by Gandalf the Mauve
History will remember 2015 as the year when The Republican Party As We Knew It was destroyed by Donald Trump. An entity called the GOP will survive — but can never be the same.
Am I overstating Trump's impact, given that not a single vote has been cast? Hardly. I'm not sure it's possible to exaggerate how the Trump phenomenon has torn the party apart, revealing a chasm between establishment and base that is far too wide to bridge with stale Reagan-era rhetoric. Can you picture the Trump legions meekly falling in line behind Jeb Bush or Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.)? I can't either.
Trump didn't blow up the party on his own. He had help from a field of presidential contenders that was touted as deep and talented but proved shallow and wanting. Bush raised shock-and-awe money but turns out to lack his father and brother's skill at performing on the national stage; he seems to want to be crowned, not elected. Rubio is like the teacher's pet who speaks eloquently in class but doesn't do his homework. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was slow off the mark, perhaps having been stuck in traffic on the George Washington Bridge.
Who else would be acceptable to the GOP establishment?...
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History will remember 2015 as the year when The Republican Party As We Knew It was destroyed by Donald Trump
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I sincerely hope so.
The GOP has been working to thwart the desire of the citizens to keep the rule of law and their country.
And no one is more upset about this than Eugene and his progressive friends, who've counted on being able to slap milquetoast GOP candidates around for years.
Eugene Robinson is a dickwad!
FK the GOP establishment. After the Ryan defection I will NEVER vote or contribute to an establishment member again.I’ll spend the money on guns and ammo
The GOPe needs to cross over or leave.
“An entity called the GOP will survive but can never be the same.”
So, what’s wrong with that? The GOPe doesn’t represent conservatives or our values any longer. We need a party that represents and fights for conservative values rather than pretending to do so.
RR bridged the chasm by filling it up with the bodies of the party establishment. Alas natural erosion cut the chasm again and it is going to have to be bridged again with the bodies of left wing Republicans.
You owe an apology to dickwads the world over.
Rochester Veteran says Eugene Robinson is a dickwad. This is true. Every day the headline on his article is about the depravity of the Republican Party. Who can waste time reading this stuff. I would add that Eugene Robinson is also a pantload.
Trump just showed how badly the GOP has fallen—who killed it? They GOP who trashed the Tea Party, The GOP who supported Obama and Nancy P. the GOP that became a branch of the DNC. It has been going on for a long time—its needs to be put out of its misrey.
Just keep the bastages away from whatever it is that rises from the wreckage. The cycle starts over.
In a storm a tree might be toppled over, and people think when they see the tree that it must have been a powerful storm. But if they look at the trunk and roots they may find they were already rotted away. Then they wonder how the tree could stand up in a light breeze.
Let’s see, the Republicans control both the Senate and the House of Representatives and Republicans have full control of the legislature and governorship in 24 states while Democrats have full control of the legislature and governorship in 7 states. But the Republican party lays destroyed. Keep dreaming Dems. You’re the ones that are a single election away from annihilation.
You should tend to your own fences eugene.
Poor Eugene was going to vote Republican in 2016 for the first time in his life and that damn Trump just went and ruined it for him!
Yeah... TWP is very concerned!
Woe, woe, woe, is we at... TWP!!!
I appreciate that you said he is one, not just has one ;'}
What IS it with guys named Eugene? We have Eugene Kane here in Wisconsinstan and he is an amazing, whiney, black liberal jerkface!
The GOP destroyed themselves.
Millions of Americans have been laying in wait for someone like Trump, someone who’ll drain this political swamp of corruption for all to see.
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