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If it were any other year, the GOP race would already be over. The Trump campaign is already working to lower expectations for Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, with Katrina Pierson predicting it will be the “last competitive state at this level”. [Donald Trump Spox: Wisconson ‘Last Competitive State,’ Schedule Forward ‘Very Complementary’ to Trump, by Alex Swoyer, Breitbart, April 2, 2016] But even after one of the worst weeks of his campaign, Trump still has a “yuge” lead in the next primary in his home state of New York, 56% to Cruz’s 20% and Kaisich’s 19% . [Poll: Clinton, Trump up big in New York, by David Wright, CNN, March 31, 2016] Cruz has to win an overwhelming majority of the delegates in every upcoming states for his nomination to remain even mathematically feasible. Only Trump has a realistic path to the nomination before Cleveland.
However, both the Republican Party and its Conservatism Inc. flunkies seem to be looking past the general election. There’s a palpable sense that the entire American Right, outside of Trump and his supporters, are actually indifferent as to whether they can win in 2016. There are even reports the Republican Establishment is preparing to nominate a candidate who hasn’t even competed in the primaries this year, most likely Open Borders fanatic and Jack Kemp clone Paul Ryan. Obviously, they can’t expect to win over the millions of voters who supported Trump in such a scenario. But that seems not even to have occurred to what critics sarcastically call the “GOP Smart Set.” As in 2012, they just know the donors will like it.
What makes these machinations all the more infuriating is the sanctimonious rhetoric accompanying them. According to the Beltway Right, Donald Trump is not just a bad candidate, but a threat to the Republic far more dire than Hillary Clinton. Eliminating him, says Matthew Continetti [Email him] of the neoconservative Washington Free Beacon—who has actually written sensible stuff about immigration, although he’s Bill Kristol’s son-in-law—is the task of “liberal democracy” itself. He writes:
The GOP survived the departure of Pat Buchanan and his acolytes. If it can’t survive the departure of Donald Trump, maybe it needs to take a good long look in the mirror and think about some of its life choices. Conversely, if the Republicans horrified at the prospect of the least qualified and most disliked president in American history are forced to leave the party, and to run an independent conservative candidate in a last-ditch attempt to deny Trump the presidency, the populists and nationalists might want to do some soul-searching of their own. None of us is exempt from standards of morality, decency, and responsibility. Not me, not you, not five year olds, not even Donald Trump and his supporters.
[How to Dump Trump, April 1, 2016]
Needless to say, it’s hard to take this kind of exercise in virtue-signaling seriously. Why, after all, is Donald Trump such an affront to morality? Is he worse than Tom Delay, who in response to lobbying by Jack Abramoff cut a corrupt deal to deliberately undermine American workers? Is he worse than the innumerable Republican elected officials who merrily conduct extramarital affairs while preaching about Christian values? Is he worse than pederast ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert?
Besides, even the most vocal “movement conservatives” trace the beginning of their political journey to Barry Goldwater, a man who helped his daughter have an illegal abortion [There’s something about Barry, by Daniel McCarthy, The American Conservative, November 5, 2007]
The main problem with Trump, it seems, is he occasionally says rude things on Twitter. And the supposed moral guardians who are lecturing us about tone are Beltway pundits, political consultants, and politicians themselves. It’s self-discrediting.
The truth is that Trump is hated by Conservatism Inc. for the same reason he is loved by so many angry American workers. His movement would represent the birth of a populist, nationalist GOP which would actually serve the interests of its constituents on trade and immigration, rather than constantly (and consciously) betraying them [Pat Buchanan: Trump as nominee could transition GOP to ‘a different, new, exciting, robust party,’ by Jeff Poor, Breitbart, March 24, 2016]
But in that kind of a party, the Conservative Inc. functionaries and political consultants don’t have a place. Trump may have had a bad week, but he identified a core truth when he slammed the “cooked system” in place and suggested the GOP bosses “want to knock out the outsider, because they want to keep their little party going” [Trump: Republican Party Bosses Want “To Knock Out The Outsider, They Want To Keep Their Little Party Going,” by Tim Hains,RealClearPolitics, April 3, 2016]
Thus the Beltway Right is not just determined to “Dump Trump,” but to render his supporters in the Conservative Movement unemployable. Former communications director for Ted Cruz and current CNN talking head Amanda Carpenter received wide coverage for her call to “blackball” all Trump supporters, including Jeff Sessions, Sarah Palin, Rick Scott, Dr. Ben Carson, and Chris Christie. [Scarlet ‘T’: Trump Foes ‘Blacklist’ Supporters, by Douglas Ernst, WND, March 18, 2016]
But if she were serious about proscribing all the conservatives who made Trump possible, she’d have to put her old boss’s name at the top of the list. As Jim Newell accurately noted:
[Cruz] wasn’t just keeping his distance from Trump in the campaign’s early stages, as you could argue Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were. He was actively courting and boosting Trump. The two had met in person “at least five times” by late August, the Daily Beast reported. One of those meetings, which produced a cheery thumbs-up photo op, went down at Trump Tower—by Cruz’s request. “I’m a big fan of Donald Trump. I think Donald Trump is bringing a bold, brash voice to this presidential race,” Cruz said before the meeting. “One of the reasons you’re seeing so many 2016 candidates go out of their way to smack Donald Trump is they don’t like a politician that speaks directly about the challenges of illegal immigration.”[Links in original]
[Why Did Ted Cruz Spend Seven Months Sucking Up to Donald Trump?, Slate, March 25, 2016]
It was for that reason so many people (including me) were anticipating a possible “apocalypse ticket” of Trump/Cruz, uniting the “true conservatives” with the nationalist populists in a new GOP.
Instead, the “true conservatives,” led by Cruz, now look like they are riding to the rescue of Open Borders Republicans like Paul Ryan.
The tragedy of all this is much of it is due to circumstance. A source inside the Cruz campaign told me at CPAC as many as 75% of Cruz voters would break for Trump if the Texas Senator dropped out of the race at that time. If Trump had knocked out Cruz in Texas instead of Rubio in Florida, he’d likely be cruising to the nomination and a Cruz/Trump partnership would be likely.
But as it stands, “Lyin’ Ted” and “Sleazy Donald” appear to have come genuinely to hate each other, and it’s likely neither will support the other if their foe wins the GOP nomination. The wishes of lonely figures like Laura Ingraham and Joseph Farah notwithstanding, a nationalist populist (Trump)/grassroots conservative (Cruz) alliance may be off the table.
The problem for Conservatism Inc.: even if they purge every last Trump sympathizer from Fox News and conservative media, the forces Trump tapped into will still be there. Cruz constantly calls Trump not a “real conservative,” but he is now shamelessly copying Trump’s position on trade and immigration. But it was less than a year ago Cruz was writing Wall Street Journal editorials with Paul Ryan in favor of granting more power to President Obama to impose trade agreements on the beleaguered American workers [Putting Congress in Charge on Trade, by Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz, April 21, 2015].
Unless Mr. “Consistent Conservative” is willing to say he was just kidding when it came to his Trump-like stances on trade and immigration, the Beltway consensus has already been broken—because it’s been shown Republican voters simply don’t want it.
Clearly, at this point Conservatism Inc. doesn’t care about the general election or even what Cruz needs to say in order to slow down Trump. The “conservative movement” is no longer interested, if it ever was, about changing policy—least of all immigration policy—or even in winning the election. They simply want to keep their jobs and their control over The Microphone so they can keep telling patriotic Americans what they are and are not allowed to believe.
Bottom line: it’s getting harder and harder to pretend the Beltway Right isn’t just filled with direct mail scams; it just IS a direct mail scam writ large.
And if there is one message coming from Conservatism Inc. in 2016, it’s that the scam must go on—by any means necessary.
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Very good.
thank you very much for this objective appraisal. You are reading lots of good stuff and appear to have sifted thru a lot of junk as well. Thanks again.
I assume that Billary will beat Trump, if nominated. The importance of studying where we go from here, in terms of the GOP possibly being taken over by Trumpers (pardon me if you laugh at this), or a third party forming from the Trumper GOP faction and the breakaway Democrats, and …and.
I have been saying that this moment is just the start. Europe is going to blow this summer over the migrant crisis, and the double whammy of that plus the US general election fireworks, is going to be very very big.
It is almost now or never, what with Obongo sabotaging the Republic with mexicans, etc. He should be tried for treason. I have never said that about any candidate or prez , ever.
Joe Webb
right you are Joe… Billarry… Killary… mutherfuckery too. Don’t you just lovethe way it is going… I mean what the hell happend to a real democracy… with some concept of…. I would like Jill Stein and sure she is a jewis, but see,I am not agains any ethnicicy… if the person has some quality…
Instead, the “true conservatives,” led by Cruz, now look like they are riding to the rescue of Open Borders Republicans like Paul Ryan.
I hope that the quotes mean that you weren’t taken in by Cruz. It is not sensible to think that Cruz in any way represents meaningful change in the Republican Party.
BTW, what do you think of the writing by Decius?
White Guy Trump Bros only have themselves to blame if the old farting hairy lesbian is elected POTUS on Nov 8 2016. White Guy Trump Bros tolerated the Democratic Party importing its high fertility highly racialized nonwhite legal immigrant Democratic Party Voting Bloc for 51 fucking years.
If the 1965 Immigration Reform Act had not been passed:
1)Barack Obama not-a-snowballs-chance-in-hell of ever being elected POTUS in 2008+2012
3)Bill Clinton not-a-snowballs-chance-in-hell of ever being elected POTUS in 1992+1996..
4)Hillary Clinton not-a-snowballs-chance-in-hell of ever being elected POTUS in 2016
5)Native Born White Americans still a 90 percent racial majority in the US in 2016!!!!
Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy
by Murray N. Rothbard
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard60.html
Another chapter of state-worship mythology.
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H. L. Mencken
The Trump-Cruz Ticket is the attempt of the two blond haired Ronnie Reagan worshipper skanks Anne Coulter and Laura Ingraham to restore the corpse of Ronnie Reagan back to the Presidency. I want nothing to with this necrophilia. Term limits should apply to Ronnie Reagan’s pickled corpse also!!!!
The alternative to the Trump-Cruz ticket should be Trump losing to the revolting lesbian…and then Trump using his $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ions to start and fund a grass-roots-in-the street-Native Born White American Race-Revolt against the Democratic Party’s race war against the Historic Native Born White American Majority and against heterosexual Christian society and culture. This Native Born White American race revolt would be anti-war and isolationist.
Of course, Trump with never do this…and this only goes to show how dangerous it is for the White Guy Trump Bros to put their fate completely in the hands of Donald Trump POTUS.
Trump can’t create high paying jobs for millions of Native Born White Americans because there is way too much nonwhite “American” scab labor in the US markets. What does Trump intend to do?..Build Hotels all over the National and State Parks and have White Men working service jobs in his real estate empire?
I had to fight Trump to prevent him from poisoning Mt. Kisko’s water supply with a Golf Course.
Commadante Ron Unz
Why aren’t carrying commentary by Bill Kauffman?….Such a natural fit for Unz review…..
The cheese heads have elected their Cock Bros. owned and operated governor THREE TIMES. I have no doubt they will vote for Goldman Cruz. Not that it matters. The establishment reds prefer Hillary to Trump. Which proves they are not really red at all. They are merely the establishment defending their place at Court.
The GOPers looking into a mirror and not liking the image:
“In essence, Trump was simply reiterating long-standing U.S. policy, for which he was castigated as an ignoramus! If getting Chicago vaporized because of our nuclear defense of Talinn sounds like stupidity when uttered by Trump, why is it wisdom when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or some other Beltway panjandrum sees fit to state it?” https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/05/when-donald-trump-makes-sense/
The 2016 electoral Circus is on.
Trump is a showman whose job is to ensure the CIA-MOSSAD Zionist War Criminal receives enough votes, so that those who count the votes can declare her the winner.
Ironically, Trump is pushing all the Negative buttons, and his popularity is soaring.
He has criticized (not intelligently), the Zionist land Thieves, and his popularity has soared.
He has voiced a one dimensional racist anti-immigrant policy, and his popularity has soared.
He disrespected Ms. Kelly on Fox Noose, and his popularity has soared.
He farts on nationwide TV, and his popularity soars.
He was Roasted (brutally – and accurately roasted), on nationwide TV, and his popularity soared.
It is apparent that many Americans are fed up with the corrupt American political system, and are grasping to the hope of an Easy rescue, by a Bruce Willis-Clint Eastwood Trumpish hero, who, as with Mighty Mouse, will “come to the rescue.” Any easy sugared Hollywood path to end the tragedy of Americans’ loss of Freedoms, their Liberties, and their National Sovereignty, is desperately grasped at. To Restore a republic is Serious Work. It is Revolutionary Work; and the faint of heart need not apply.
Ron Paul cannot – all by himself – save us. Even Frodo needed help. Those who stood in the way of the Oligarchs have not survived. Donald Trump, is, at best, a parody of a parody. He follows our first ‘Black’ puppet actor Pretend President, with his choreographed family. He will assist the first female?? puppet Pretend President (to assume the-that position). Our last President was John F. Kennedy; we must renew from there.
The Show Must Go On.
This Trump versus H. Clinton, is the SHOW. It is The Democracy Show that Zionist America broadcasts to the world (specially every 4 years). It is the core of the necessary “Pretend Democracy Show” that our children are brainwashed with in School.
Do We Recall?
The coup d’etat in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the murder of our last Constitutional President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, later his brother, later, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Gracchi Brothers, the musical Lennon, Fred Hampton, and the slaughter of 2 million Vietnamese, 1 million Indonesians, 100,000 Guatemalan Native Americans, opened the door to LB Johnson, Nixon, the Clintons, Hollywood Obomber, Casino Trump, and, the sociopathic servant of the Zionist American Oligarchs, Hilary Clinton, with their butchery of a dozen other nations, from Yugoslavia, to Iraq, to Libya, to Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia – you finish the list………………..
From Hollywood Obomber to Hilary Clinton:
Ms. Clinton enjoys her work. She enjoys watching men murdered in Cold Blood. To Qadaffi, she offered a “We came, we saw, he died” Listen to the worst American Gangster, (a modern Al Capone, a pathological and sociopathic heartless imperialist killer), and America’s next Unconstitutional puppet President. Listen to her laugh. She enjoys death (other people’s death). She is fully qualified to rule the Sheeple. Contentious Citizens (Minutemen-women), cannot be ruled; they would put her on trial.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiFi-zku_jLAhVIRCYKHXfmBqAQtwIIHzAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFgcd1ghag5Y&usg=AFQjCNF-lJuQY6sB6NUVScO7qD2ydC0G9Q&sig2=cv1GkNT1LeAZpOGULmx7NA&bvm=bv.118443451,d.eWE
Trump is also qualified to play his role (as was Reagan).
In 2016, Only Donald trump could lose (or appear to lose) an election to Ms. Clinton. And that is the point.
Our duty as American Citizens is to Restore the Republic, with our Constitution serving as its foundation.
This is the Only Road. It is our Yellow brick Road. It is The Path we must tread.
For the almost forgotten VISION, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
For the Democratic Republic!
I’m constantly amazed at the ignorance around me regarding the purpose of political parties. They don’t exist to serve a constituency, nor to promote an ideology. They need a constituency to get elected, and having ideologies helps that. The people they elect to office and the people in control of the parties may also be ideologues. But that’s incidental. Parties exist to secure power for the people running the parties. That’s it. It’s pretty simple.
They are open conspiracies to monopolize parts of government at various levels in order to get at the goodies that follow, and provide patronage and position to your followers so that they’ll keep you in power. This need not be done out of cupidity. It could be done out of a genuine spirit of public service (whatever that means). Doesn’t matter.
Nothing is more important than keeping control of the party. Not even winning elections. Parties aren’t just about winning elections, which is why so many go uncontested. They need to win some, obviously, because that’s how they get power. But if they have to choose between losing an election and losing control of the party they’ll be losers. There are more jobs if your side wins, but the only way there aren’t any jobs at all is if another gang takes over your racket.
That’s why they go after heretics with infinitely greater ferocity than the unconverted. The opposition party isn’t only not the primary enemy; it’s useful. It’s the looming threat that keeps the troops in line. Mutiny is the great danger. Lose to the Democrats and at least you have your party to run. Lose to Trump and all your friends may be out of a job.
the clowns are tumbling, bouncing off walls, bashing one-another, and taking selfies.
Just a wee bit of personal restraint please. Joe Webb
Re Menken: “…moron.”
Bush. Done. Check it off. “Mission Accomplished”.
I think that holding the treason trial in Guantanamo and then carrying out the sentence there would be poetic justice, no?