Donald Trump Seeks Republican Unity but Finds Rejection

Donald J. Trump’s moment of triumph this week quickly gave way to a trying and even humiliating test of his standing as a Republican leader, as a phalanx of the party’s most respected figures shunned the man anointed as their presumptive presidential nominee.

Hoping for a moment of party unity, Mr. Trump had scarcely declared victory in Indiana when the cascade of rejection began, starting with the announcement by George Bush and his son George W. Bush, the only former Republican presidents still living, that they would not back his candidacy. And on Thursday night, Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, said he intended to hold to his earlier pledge not to vote for Mr. Trump, according to an audio recording of his remarks. Mr. Romney said at a private speech in Washington that he was “dismayed” by the state of the campaign. “I wish we had better choices,” Mr. Romney said. “I keep hoping that things will somehow get better.”

Mr. Romney’s remarks came just hours after House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation’s highest-ranking Republican elected official, delivered an embarrassing blow to Mr. Trump, declaring that he had not yet proven himself worthy of an endorsement. In Washington, the announcement was seen as giving members of Congress a free hand to deal with Mr. Trump, without pressure from the speaker to rally around him.

Mr. Trump has responded alternately with anger and indifference: He has said that he does not need or even welcome support from all Republicans, and on Thursday issued a brusque statement saying he did not support Mr. Ryan’s policy agenda.

In a Fox News interview Friday morning, Mr. Trump said he had been unsettled by Mr. Ryan’s rebuke

I’m so glad you are supporting Trump now. I pray that ONLY the will of God is done in the working out of the events of our time. Prayer is our recourse.

Yes, there is skullduggery on the minds of the Betrayers of the People. And you could very well be seeing a possible scenario. I pray that those plots, plans, and preparations are exposed and bound and refuted in their entirety and that ONLY the one prepared for this time is allowed to be placed in that White House - whoever that may be. I personally prefer Trump, but I do not know the Lord’s plan and defer to and call forth His will.

You can’t negotiate peace with a society that wants war. See Israel / palestinians
You can’t negotiate unity with a group that refuses to change their views in order to unify.

If the GOPe’s version of “unifying” is “Do everything the same way we’ve been doing it” then what is the point of unifying?

As an example, the GOPe refuses to change their views on NAFTA. Trump wants it gone. They do not. He won the argument with the voters. They chose him, not Bush, not Rubio, not Kasich etc...Shouldn’t the party leadership reflect the views of the majority of their party? Shouldn’t the party leadership come to the negotiating table willing to make changes?

Instead they continue to snub, denigrate Trump and all of his voters by proxy. I’m not saying they should give him every single thing he asks for but the big planks that he ran on? Immigration, trade deals etc...yeah, they need to change their stance.

Changing their stance on a few of those things would show the voters that the GOPe is actually listening and it would likely result in a more reasonable Trump.

These are the death throes of a party that did not evolve, that chose a half measure of accommodation and a half measure of lip service to principles that actually require total dedication.

I don’t see a clear path ahead here, without the emergence of a new and somewhat differently oriented party altogether. Let’s name it the American Freedom Party for want of a better name. The GOP needs to wither away and its leading lights from yesteryear can go off to their comfortable retirement and forget about the future which is basically what they have done anyway.

This would not be a Libertarian party as such. It would require a somewhat different balancing of security and privacy concerns, as well as a more realistic foreign policy than many libertarians endorse. But it would also need to be a party of limited government, only the most sensible intervention in foreign wars, and as much personal liberty as can be tolerated without losing a global war to Islam.

The real fault line is going to be sexual identity politics. There are reasons why sexual deviance was always historically shunned in public policy yet privately tolerated. That balance was essential to maintaining the central core of our western societies. If we surrender entirely to the multicultural and sexual rainbow agendas, then we lose that core and abandon our fate to the strongest forces from the outside — and we already know that those are global Islam, Chinese economic domination, and the sort of liberation theology of the modern Catholic church that will ally itself with an erosion of even the borders of the nation.

The GOP is not up to the task of pushing back against all this. Donald Trump has at least identified the paradigms, although I don’t think he is much of an opponent of the radical gay agenda, that part may need work. Whether Donald Trump can effectively lead the otherwise scattered and disenfranchised forces that want to fight back, or just backs off into a self-serving mode once elected, remains to be seen. However, we have to give this one last try. The leftist globalist revolution is already at an advanced state, the counter-revolution never actually started. Sarah Palin may have been ready but John McCain clearly was not, and Mitt Romney got nowhere and had little interest anyway.

Paul Ryan represents the sort of former conservative who has convinced himself he still is a conservative, but there is no point in limiting the size of government if you still allow it to preside over a socialist revolution. That is just Gorbachev territory, basically.

Mr Ryan, tear down this party.

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