“Cruz is the easier pick” between Cruz and Trump, said Ed Rogers, a veteran Republican who spent nearly a decade in the Reagan and Bush White Houses and is now a prominent D.C. lobbyist. “He is a real conservative Republican, he has a clear governing point of view, he understands Civics and he is a student of history. All that stands in vivid contrast to Trump. For me it’s not hard to be for Cruz.”
so trump is or is not a complete, lying hypocrite, for bashing other for doing the same thing he does (hiring cheap foreigners for jobs Americans want)?
If Trump is leading a populist movement, many of his Republican critics have joined an elitist one. Deriding Trump is an act of class solidarity, visible evidence of refinement and proof that you live nowhere near a Wal-Mart. Early last summer, in a piece that greeted Trump when he entered the race, National Review described the candidate as âa ridiculous buffoon with the worst taste since Caligula.â Virtually every other critique of Trump from the right has voiced similar aesthetic concerns.
Why is the Party of Ideas suddenly so fixated on fashion and hair? Maybe all dying institutions devolve this way, from an insistence on intellectual rigor to a flabby preoccupation with appearances. It happened in the Episcopal Church, once renowned for its liturgy, now a stop on architectural and garden tours. Only tourists go there anymore.