[Pelham]

I’m astounded that an article this good would appear on Townhall. Townhall being an arm of Salem Media, the propaganda office for the GOPe. And this was great:

“Instead, the establishment was dead set on dumping a steaming pile of Jeb on our collective lawn, the same durrwood you can watch on YouTube hanging a medal around Hillary Clinton’s wrinkled neck. That pompous geebo can’t even take his own damn side in a fight; why is anyone shocked that our voters saw he would never take theirs?”

[DNME]

Let me see if Kurt got this right ...

We elected “conservatives” and handed control of both the House and Senate to Republicans. But instead of acting like a true “opposition party” and voting AGAINST overspending and government overreach and FOR the impeachment of crooks and incompetents, they crapped all over us.

These same “elites” refuse to close the border or even deport criminal aliens and somehow we’re the ones who don’t understand? I think we understand just fine.

We’re taxed to death, overworked with part-time jobs (good luck finding a 40-hour job with benefits) and saddled with Political Correctness and rotten health insurance.

The elites have no clue how pissed off we really are. They can’t comprehend how close we are to taking the muskets down off the mantle and gathering down at the village green.

So we picked a maverick for the Republican presidential nominee. Too bad.

Yeah, I think Kurt got it right. It’s the elites who don’t get it. But they will.

[Billthedrill]

While it may be starting to register on the ruling class that we have a genuine revolt going on here, I don't think the nature of that revolt is clear to them despite exhaustive efforts to make it clear on the part of the folks with the pitchforks and the torches. Part of the problem is the apparently unquestioned assumption that "we set the terms, we mold the discussion," which is part of what the revolt is reacting to.

Bernie Sanders should not have happened. He was (and more obviously so in retrospect) a foil placed to illuminate the "inevitable" candidate and when his campaign took off he was ill-equipped to deal with it and the party unwilling to help him. He did not come out of nowhere but his fans did.

Trump at least was more explicable at the outset from the ruling class perspective: a WWE-esque reality television star that would be a momentary passion of the unwashed more accustomed to Honey Boo Boo than to the intricacies of the Beltway Sport of Kings. Let the little people rave, the pros would soon be along to take the dangerous toys out of the kiddies' hands.

Yeb!'s campaign taking a nosedive into a rickety tumbrel full of poo should have been a warning. He too was "inevitable", a keeper of arcane insider spells necessary to keep this immense joke of a government tottering along. There are a lot of three thousand dollar suits and cushy slush funds and golden parachutes riding on the continuing willingness of the sheep to be fleeced for their betters. And it is here that the commentariat failed most signally: declaring that revolt was not an option is not the same as making it so.

Hence their current confusion. Schlichter gets it here, but nobody's listening. The ruling class packages a candidate A as a "conservative" who is not, a candidate B who is "liberal" but just as much a comfortable insider, frames the discussion, sets the terms, performs the customary media incantations and the magic just isn't happening. It's obviously somebody else's fault.

[dfwgator]

That the Republican Party sucked so much that it took frickin’ Donald Trump to make it viable again.

[JimRed]

If all other admonitions fail, remember- ABC!

Anyone But Clinton!

[EnquiringMind]

Nothing. I don’t get it.

[x]

Good article.

[fatima]

None of my family want to vote for him and we are conservative.One part of the family will vote against him because they think he will blow us up.