The Washington Examiner is owned by the same people who own the Weakly Standard, so it’s no surprise that they are falling in line with that rag.
This “open letter”, actually more of a threat, speaks of the “defining features of the Republican party.” What exactly are these “defining features”? All I see is a mass of open borders and endless wars in the Middle East. That is what the Republican party has become. You can also add, Big Bloated Government, as well.
There are those who oppose Trump on this or that policy point, and those who take a holier than thou approach and condemn him for being married 3 times or swearing or some other moral failure that they clearly don’t have any of. But, the primary driving force behind the anti-Trump movement is the Open Borders and Endless Wars crowd, they’re the ones financing the multi-million dollar anti-Trump ad campaigns, and publishing the foam and spittle flecked screeds in the National Review and the Standard Weakling.
We owe Trump a big Thank You for smoking these rats out of their holes and into the open so that we can see exactly who and what they are.
Except in this case, the GOPe sent many so-called conservatives to Congress, then they folded like a cheap tent and/or incumbent Republicans did not support them - or even attacked them. Leadership caved (Boehner, McConnell, and recently Ryan) to Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. The people revolted and attacked the GOPe via the TEA Party and the Trump Tidalwave.
But, the GOPe refuse to answer the issue of “Hey, what did WE do to trigger this?”. The GOPe needs some introspection - a concept which they absolutely cannot grasp. They are genetically incapable of understanding the anger of "the great unwashed" whom they failed.
Trump is a symptom, not the illness.
Romney was - and still is - a dismal failure, not a just-in-time Super Hero.
If Romney had attacked Obama then like he is attacking Trump now, things may have been different.