MATT WALSH: There's so much nonsense being spewed in this country.

There's so much nonsense being spewed in this country. I'm drowning in it. I can hardly breathe anymore.

The Donald Trump phenomenon is built on nonsense and born from nonsense. His surrogates and minions in the media drop 80 tons of nonsense on every conversation like a nuclear bomb incinerating everything in its path and wiping out any chance of a coherent dialogue.

Exhibit A: I wrote a blog post last week listing a few of the so-called conservative leaders in media and politics who sold out to Trump. Maybe you read it. Amanda Carpenter, a writer for one of my favorite websites, Conservative Review, compiled her own list a couple of days later. She concentrated particularly on the politicians who've stabbed their conservative constituents in the back by endorsing Trump.

Keep this in mind. There have been only two "lists": mine and Amanda's. That's it. There's been only one -- mine -- that mentions traitorous conservative "thought leaders" like Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, etc. Nobody else has written a list of traitors who slaughtered their integrity on the sacred altar of Trump. Or, if they have, they wrote it after the fact.

What happened next would be funny if it weren't so sad. It started with Breitbart, a Trump propaganda outfit, which turned our two editorials into a blaring front page headline. The website quoted me in huge capital letters:

"BLACKLISTED: DRUDGE, COULTER, HANNITY, CARSON, BREITBART, O'REILLY, CHRISTIE MAKE GOP SMART SET'S LIST OF ‘IDEOLOGICAL HUSTLERS'"

Over the next few days, many other articles were written hysterically shouting about a nefarious "enemies list" being etched into stone tablets in a shadowy room by robed figures known as "The Establishment." Over and over again, I heard that these lists were written by "The Establishment."

Laura Ingraham led her Monday radio show talking about the dreaded lists. She at least made sure to mock us for being silly "bloggers" she's never heard of, but she still presented it as proof that there's some DC conspiracy being hatched against Trump fans.

As usual, Sarah Palin had the most ridiculous reaction, ranting that "the man" and "the professional political class" and the "DC herd" have blacklisted her and her fellow Trump lickspittles. The next day, her PAC launched a campaign using "the blacklist" to bolster her own mailing list. A frantic message on her PAC's Facebook page urged her supporters to stand with her in her fight against "The Establishment's" efforts to "silence the voice of the people." It said that the "The Establishment's" list includes Drudge, Hannity, Coulter, Breitbart, and others.

Again, I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO WROTE A LIST WITH THOSE NAMES ON IT. My point isn't to claim credit for sparking this conversation, but to point out how the Trump sell outs in media have only proven my point by how they reacted to my post. They're lying. They're acting. They're using a column written by a 29-year-old blogger who lives in a small town in a rural county many miles from DC to reinforce a narrative that Trump and his disciples are fighting against powerful, villainous forces in DC.

Amanda Carpenter, the only co-conspirator in this dastardly plot, did work in politics for a short time, I think, and does appear on TV sometimes, but I don't believe she'll be insulted when I say she's not the most powerful figure in DC. And neither am I, although I have been to the Smithsonian a bunch of times so maybe that makes me a part of the "DC crowd"? Is that how it works, Sarah?

You'll have to explain this, Sarah, because I thought WE were the much less powerful conservative criticizing the much more powerful, rich, famous, influential conservative icons. But we've victimized you, have we? We've intimidated you? You're a martyr yet again, Sarah, but this time you're a martyr at the hands of the grassroots? Get a grip, you carnival barking shill.

Sarah Palin is a ridiculous, attention starved phony, but she's not alone. Just look at where we are now: wealthy and powerful media figures are calling grassroots bloggers "The Establishment." See, conservatism is a game to these people. It's just a product to be sold, a drama to be performed, a brand to be exploited for personal gain. That's why they support Trump. He is doing with conservatism exactly what they are doing and have done.

Many of your conservative heroes are frauds, that's the truth. Perhaps they didn't start out that way, but that's what they've become. They got rich and they got famous and they fell in love with the attention and the acclaim and the money. They stopped fighting the culture war. Then, at some point, they realized losing is better for business. And now, in their final act of betrayal, they are joining forces with Donald Trump to actively sabotage their own side.

But I guess you can't trust me. I'm The Establishment. I never set out to be The Establishment, but here I am. I've never even been invited to a cocktail party. I don't even know what a cocktail party is, to be honest. I mean, do they actually just serve cocktails or can I get, like, a beer? Does a Jack and Coke count? Can I wear jeans? I don't know. These are things I thought I'd learn before I was finally inducted into the club. I feel so unprepared.

Well, anyway, allow me to get back to plotting world domination with my fellow conservative bloggers while the humble grassroots freedom fighters like Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter courageously stand against us. So brave. So brave.

“Conservative Media” is the home plate of Dogmatic Conservatism. They live eat, breath, sleep dogma. For them theory of “Conservatism” is more important then anything else

The 2016 GOP Primary has brought up an old divide in Conservatism. There currently is a war being waged between the Dogmatics and the Realists. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the candidates political dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma. The Realist understands some times a flawed tool is going work better then the flawlessly poltical pure tool.

Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.

By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

The Dogmatic at NR, Town Hall, Red State and the rest of the “Conservative” media sneer at the realist as being “nihlistic towards DC and the GOP”.

It is not Nihilism, it Realism. Since 1988 Conservatives have faithfully pledges their treasure and time to the GOP. Despite elections successes in 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2014 what have Conservative gotten from the GOP?

Prosperity? Nope worse economy since 1979.

Reduction in Government-nope as expensive, corrupt, incompetent, intrusive and bigger then ever

Supreme Court? Nope as far left as it has ever been.

A Nation secure? Nope at risk in a dangerous world. Military broken, exhausted and overextended.

A respect for rule of law and the Constitution? Nope. Government, and society, is more lawless then it has ever been.

A healthy growing vibrant society? Nope stagnant, or in decline, everywhere in every way.

So, it not Nihilism, it Realism. It is a realistic assessment that doing the same thing again this year electorally is going to continue this decline and degradation from DC.You can only overcome inertia in any system with force. So we need to force DC out of it denigrate path onto a new path. So why Trump rather then Cruz?

I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers at NR, Red State and other “Conservative” media but the fact remains, we are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.

This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probable is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.

Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.

“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourselves.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!

Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1988-1994-1998-2000-2002-2004-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.

Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate. Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the $10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.

The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.

We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump

We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.

I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and must redeem that failure.

This is our generation’s “go” time

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