Posted on 01/29/2016 1:01:52 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
Nothing like Donald Trump has ever hit a major American political party: A blow-dried celebrity gleefully smashing one modern Republican certainty after the other. As he defies his own party on tax orthodoxy, on healthcare and on bending a knee to Roger Ailes, he's exposed the GOP establishment as virtually powerless over its own nominating process.
His rise has now created a split so deep that it's not clear how the party is going to recover. Some conservatives are trying to crush his candidacy, others are finally embracing him, and they're all lobbing grenades at each other. So is this the end of the GOP as we know it? And what's next?
National Interest editor Jacob Heilbrunn sees Trump's disruption as just the reboot the party needs; Republican strategist Rick Wilson sees a possible "murder-suicide" between Trump and Cruz that opens the door for moderates. Former Senate operative Jim Manley sees a party civil war that will sow chaos far beyond the GOP.
Here, for Politico Magazine, 12 political gurus put their minds to the most unexpectedly urgent big-picture question in American politics.
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“Trump lacks character.”
Are you kidding us? Trump is the biggest character to run since Andrew Jackson. So far, he’s about destroyed the traitorous GOPe and most of the Goebbel’s media. That’s quite a bit of character.
Trump has as much character as did Ross Perot. Go Figure.
“Trump has as much character as did Ross Perot. Go Figure.”
On the contrary. Perot didn’t even come close to destroying the traitorous GOPe. Trump has the assassination character to be on the verge of killing the Nazi Rowe GOPe machine. I consider that a good thing. Don’t know what might rise out of the ashes, but seeing that rat Rowe lying gutted and bleeding out alongside the road gives me some pleasure. I’m damn tired of the GOPe stabbing us in the back after we gave them our trust. These are not honorable people.
If that is true then it doesn't really matter, we are beyond politics as a solution. So I think Trump is worth the gamble because it won't be Cruz, it will be Rubio.
Hi folks, I’m still alive. But I don’t care for this Trump character at all. I consider him a type of Manchurian Candidate. Cruz 2016.
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