Posted on 02/21/2016 2:33:31 PM PST by EveningStar
...For the last eight months, the sophisticated view of Trump and Trumpism has gone something like this: Donald Trump may be a huckster, but he has done a service to the Republican party by bringing new, nontraditional voters into the tent. He has shown his fellow candidates that they can flatly reject the demands of political correctness and need not drop into turtle-guard whenever the New York Times takes a shot at them. And while Trump the man is not presidential material, Trumpism -- that is, the collection of populist and nationalist concerns that have become wrapped up in the man's campaign -- is potentially very helpful. Over the last 16 years, the Republican party has been largely ineffectual, both in power and in opposition. It has been hostage to a donor class that is almost completely at odds with Republican voters.
Trumpism, in other words, looked like a political movement that could -- and possibly even should -- be incorporated into the GOP.
There is some truth to much of this. But it turns out that Trumpism has corrosive effects, too. Witness how it has corrupted people in its orbit...
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
You back again?
Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry came out against Trump.
No one is paying the so-called conservative commentator class the slightest attention.
Because they’re full of it.
Notice how they don’t have the balls to allow comments?
And Cruzism corrupts absolutely!
Yup. They can dish it out but they can’t take it.
The Beltway Pundit class are circle jerks that talk only to each other.
They have no clue that people are angry at Washington and want the place cleaned out.
They have no patience for the BS that’s made America into the sick old man of the world.
The “Weekly Standard” is just another GOPe ground sloth trapped and sinking in the Neo-Con tar pits. Steve Hayes, Bill Kristol, and this guy too will soon be gone from sight.
Good riddance.
The same old amnesty pimping professional conservatives who told us to fall in line behind McCain and Romney find Trump unacceptable. What a surprise.
Fast Teddy Cruz
Here today, gone tomorrow, back again the day after that, then sent on another hiatus, and on and on it goes...all for actively supporting the only Tea Party conservative in the race. This place sure has changed over the years.
ROFLMAO! FReeper humor BUMP! (article not read)
I’ve come to believe we are witnessing something more historic than Reagans first win.
Does it really make a PING sound, or the sound of a leaf hitting the ground in Autumn?
Well at the time of my writing this comment it would appear that there are about 20 or so comments that definitively prove the validity of this article. And trumpism certainly explains the insanity of conservative FReepers supporting a big government liberal.
Only problem is when he reverts to form...and he most certainly will...they will have contributed to the final destruction of their country through their incredible shortsightedness.
And now they’ll do nothing but attack me in response.
One day, not too far away, you’re gonna be that Jap in the jungle who refused to surrender ten years after the war. You’re probably too young to remember that kind of stuff.
Preach it, brother!
Ummm, I’m not a “Jap”, I’m not in the “jungle”, nor am I cut off from the outside world.
Lame.
Suggest you return to the drawing board and reconsider all the information that you have access to.
Trump is the ONLY candidate who is presidential material!
Stage one is denial. Most have moved past it already.
If we all walked in lock step, it would be a very boring world.
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