Posted on 02/21/2016 2:33:31 PM PST by EveningStar
...For the last eight months, the sophisticated view of Trump and Trumpism has gone something like this: Donald Trump may be a huckster, but he has done a service to the Republican party by bringing new, nontraditional voters into the tent. He has shown his fellow candidates that they can flatly reject the demands of political correctness and need not drop into turtle-guard whenever the New York Times takes a shot at them. And while Trump the man is not presidential material, Trumpism -- that is, the collection of populist and nationalist concerns that have become wrapped up in the man's campaign -- is potentially very helpful. Over the last 16 years, the Republican party has been largely ineffectual, both in power and in opposition. It has been hostage to a donor class that is almost completely at odds with Republican voters.
Trumpism, in other words, looked like a political movement that could -- and possibly even should -- be incorporated into the GOP.
There is some truth to much of this. But it turns out that Trumpism has corrosive effects, too. Witness how it has corrupted people in its orbit...
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Is it 50 a day, or is it 100 a day?
I have lost count.
” But it turns out that Trumpism has corrosive effects, too.”
Jonny Last Place was clutching his pearls when he wrote this crap.
Last article I’ll ever read from that guy.
People who think he is a huckster think everyone who has acquired wealth must have done it by stealing or breaking laws. It’s called envy.
“Witness how it has corrupted people in its orbit...”
Primary voters were “corrupted” by the false promises & complete cave of the GOP to the RATS.
The Weekly Standard should know, because it has joined many other entities from FoxNews on up and down, who have become corrupt in their effort to defend open boarders and globalisms march forward.
Well, too bad, because all that is coming down whether every FReeper likes it or not.
What the world needs now is another navel gazer.
Oh, spare me the sanctimonious horsesh**. Nothing can begin to approach the legal corruption of the establishment that is being opposed in both parties.
Rubio had a big crowd in TN today. Cruz has much bigger problems than Trump right now. He’s staring at 3rd place across the board on Super Tuesday outside of TX. That will bury him.
WS has been a Republicrat drum beater. Whine, whine.
Ping.
The author is absolutely right, there have been a slew of conservatives who have been corrupted by Donald Trump right here on Free Republic...and by all appearances, most of them don’t even know it.
Voters trashed WS and NRO and told Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry to take a hike.
The conservative impersonators in our media are even more of a problem than Trump.
Last night’s SC primary result bore it out.
Sad clowns are sad because they’re on the road to being out of a job.
It can’t be a surprise to them. Lying to conservatives and grinding the middle class into dust for 20 years could only work for so long.
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Thank you very much. You just made my point.
It is a RNC GOPe drum beater.
And now you think that is just peachy.
Thou pure and holy DC elitists have spoken. Hypocrites-- we can make a very long list of national corruptions by the DC cartel.
The writer lost me when he declared Trump has no intellectual curiosity... that is just out of touch with reality...
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