“Romney created Candidate Trump.”
Overstates things a lot. The MSM created an opening for Trumps buffoonery by ignoring and excusing Clinton’s bad behavior. Bush and the RNC apparatus refused to defend themselves from near continuous attack from the leftists with press passes, then McCain raised the ante by attacking anyone who tried to show that Obama was unqualified.
“Romney led the party down a path that rejected everything republican voters believe in. In response, republican voters rejected every candidate who followed Romney. Mitt has often been dismissed as irrelevant, but the truth is worse. Mitt is the problem.”
Mitt was a symptom of the problem more than the problem himself. He was the second nominee in a row that ran against major planks of the Republican Party platform. I also do not think he was a member of the RNC committee that wrote the, much celebrated by the MSM, campaign autopsy after He lost. The RNC will have troubles untill they accept that Republican Voters have dispute their report on the causes of their loss in 2012, and reject the proposed solutions.
Trumps written position papers seem to me to be largely mainstream republican positions, and those where he differs from the RNC are all positions supported by over 60% of voters.
Good Summary!
Just what I was thinking. About the only case one can make for Romney creating Trump is that Romney should have been running for re-election this year. I still can’t believe how he collapsed at the end in 2012.
As to what created Trump - perhaps a decade of OPEN BORDERS by the GOPe, primarily Bush Jr., along with 3 attempts at getting Amnesty through...all stuff that Romney was not directly part of (of course he supported it all, but that’s not the same).
...and with Trump, the GOPe was forced out of the shadows (to borrow one of their talking points) and we got to see just how much they despise THEIR OWN VOTERS! That was an unsustainable model, and if not Trump, someone else would have eventually blown it open...but thankfully it was Trump, because the left has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how to run against him (and neither would I, for that matter).