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Yes, Trump does mean the end of the GOP
The Washington Post ^ | August 27th, 2015 | By Tom Toles

Posted on 08/27/2015 9:25:05 AM PDT by Mariner

Lindsay Graham, as part of the taunt-war he’s having with Donald Trump, says that if Trump wins the GOP nomination, it will mean the end of the Republican Party. He’s right, but Trump means the end of the Republican Party even if he doesn’t get the nomination.

I wrote a few weeks ago that Trump represents the Jump the Shark moment of the party. The GOP has been a rickety, unsustainable contraption of policy prescriptions that don’t add up, don’t really represent the coalition’s actual members, and is based on a backward-looking set of views appealing to an ever-shrinking demographic. It has been held together this long with an ever-more-obfuscatory confabulation of misdirection, packaged in buzzwords and amped with anger. It was overdue to come unglued.

Trump is a disruptor of the most lethal sort. His blunt language is shattering the brittle framework of GOP nostrums that forever promise things they don’t deliver. He is revealing the basic discordance between party leaders and rank and file. He is like the rogue catalyst that breaks one bond, then moves on to break the next and the next. There’s no easy way to stop this, though the party establishment is frantically trying to think of one.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; 2016issues; theend; trump2016
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To: Mariner

11/2014 was a final pulse check.
It’s dead Jim.


21 posted on 08/27/2015 9:36:03 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Slyfox

And as for the DemoRatters party where’s their conscience battle within? The libtards got their own corruptions they fail to confront like lock-stepping dimbulbs — all hail the holy D’s.


22 posted on 08/27/2015 9:37:10 AM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: Mariner

The political class has to be weeded out. Its not a privileged class as the Dems present it. It may take a shaker and mover to straighten them out, and maybe Trump is the one to do it. We need to weed out the corruption that we are lead to believe does not exist.


23 posted on 08/27/2015 9:37:24 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run someone like Cruz or Trump & Go for Broke!)
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To: DPMD

Yes. Well said.


24 posted on 08/27/2015 9:38:03 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: tflabo
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25 posted on 08/27/2015 9:38:35 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Mariner
First, the GOP must die.

Everything else comes after that.

Exactly, its akin to ,"First kill all the lawyers".

26 posted on 08/27/2015 9:38:59 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Mariner

The author is right. If Trump is not the nominee there’s no way his supporters will go back to the rinos. Unless the nominee is Cruz.


27 posted on 08/27/2015 9:39:23 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

It weakened after Reagan left office. It went into a death spiral when Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater departed.

They have been DNC-lite ever since. In the past, the GOP has always had a very tense relationship with Reagan and Goldwater.


28 posted on 08/27/2015 9:39:24 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Mariner
SCENARIO 1) If Trump doesn't win the nomination it is the end of the Republican Party.

SCENARIO 2) If Trump does win the nomination it is the end of the Republican Party.

Either scenario WORKS FOR ME.

29 posted on 08/27/2015 9:39:35 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: madprof98
I wonder what will follow in its wake.

The Tribulation.

30 posted on 08/27/2015 9:40:44 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (Just scream and leap. Then Donate to Freerepublic.com)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

I really don’t understand the problem with the GOP “dieing”. Those traitors to the electorate need to go the way of the Whigs.


31 posted on 08/27/2015 9:42:36 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: b4its2late

“The GOPe should go the way of the dinosaurs.”

The GOP officially became obsolete after the last midterm election. It was well on its way before that but afterwards it was obvious that the organization was completely ineffective and openly HOSTILE to a large fraction of their base. They used to at least PRETEND to oppose the RATS but even that stopped in 2015.


32 posted on 08/27/2015 9:42:50 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Mariner

About time I read something positive out of the press.


33 posted on 08/27/2015 9:43:31 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Mariner

GOPE! Whaw, Good God Yaw! Whadd’is it good for Absolutely Nothin!


34 posted on 08/27/2015 9:45:15 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Mariner
"Trump is a disruptor of the most lethal sort. His blunt language is shattering the brittle framework of GOP nostrums that forever promise things they don’t deliver. He is revealing the basic discordance between party leaders and rank and file."

And I, for one, and loving every bit of it. The GOPe beast cannot die too soon.

But it's also telling that for all the columnist's bluster, what he does not say is that the Dems have no answer for Trump, either. Both parties are powerless to do anything about Trump, for one good reason: He echoes the sentiments of most Americans. And most Americans are tired of being shouted down by both parties as being racist, homophobes, or sexist for wanting the Constitution to be followed by our "representative government."

But Trump's presence in this race is accomplishing another, even more useful thing: He's causing all of the traitorous GOPe quislings to out themselves. This will be useful for us voters in that we will know exactly who to frog march into history.

35 posted on 08/27/2015 9:46:46 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Mariner

What follows the collapse of the GOP is an authoritarian one party dictatorship combining the autocratic progressives and potentially violent special interests based on race, sexuality and anti capitalism.


36 posted on 08/27/2015 9:48:46 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Mariner

The GOP died when it decided to live in the Bush’s.


37 posted on 08/27/2015 9:49:20 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: VerySadAmerican
"Unless the nominee is Cruz"

Not even then.

Cruz too is a creature of the GOP.

Just look at who contributes to his PACs.

There his principal allegiance will be.

38 posted on 08/27/2015 9:49:27 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: JimSEA
"What follows the collapse of the GOP is an authoritarian one party dictatorship combining the autocratic progressives and potentially violent special interests based on race, sexuality and anti capitalism."

Well, if that's true it would hasten an end game that many believe is winnable for liberty.

39 posted on 08/27/2015 9:53:29 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Mariner
RINOs / GOPe EARNED TRUMP!

I prefer Cruz, but someone has to kick their A$$!

40 posted on 08/27/2015 9:53:37 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (RINOs EARNED TRUMP! I prefer Cruz, but someone has to kick their A$$!)
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