GOP Will Eat Itself
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David “Cancel all I said” Harsanyi has a cure for the GOP’s other embarrassing orange rash.
The GOP Should Steal the Nomination from Trump
Because we belong dead! Or something.
Donald Trump booster and radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham recently urged the GOP’s remaining candidates to avoid a “bloodbath” at the Republican National Convention. “I don’t see what the point of all this is,” she explained.
Well, that is a great point, actually: taking the nomination away from Trump.
Senator Ted Cruz could still conceivably win. But there’s no soft landing in this scenario, no rapprochement. No team-building exercise is going to fix the 2016 iteration of the Republican party. There is only going to be a crackup, no matter who captures the nomination. If that’s true, and if it means one side has to prevail, why not save your party from a hostile takeover that could potentially cost it both the Senate and the House?
And save one bullet for yourself! he cried. But, you may be asking (if you’re not too hungover and the name David Harsanyi hasn’t frightened you away) how is T-Rump’s rise a hostile takeover if he is indeed the People’s Choice?
Turns out Trump voters aren’t true Scotsmen Republicans. And all that voting in a primary stuff doesn’t really count, because it is done by the People, and as every good Libertarian knows, the People are stupid and should be ignored by the Big Brains.
Voters don’t decide the nominations; delegates do — preferably in smoke-filled rooms where rational decisions about the future of a party can be hashed out. The Republican party is not a direct democracy. It crafts its own rules, and it can change them. Here are questions that Republican delegates should be asking themselves: Is it worth upsetting a bunch of angry, marginally conservative voters who often have a minor fidelity to the doctrines of your party?
Of course it is.
Trump supporters are already very angry about everything. It’s not as if they could be any angrier with the establishment. Once Trump is gone (and he’ll leave with no coherent movement), these voters will either have to come back and look for alternative candidates with compelling messages, or leave the party altogether.
Etcetera, etcetra, #NeverTrump, the end.
