It's a Republican nightmare at this point. The two frontrunners are universally hated by the bigwigs in the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Republican National Committee, and pretty much all of the rich financial donors (personal and corporate). And you saw Nehmeth's pic. of what happened to the campaign of the guy they wanted to nominate.
I enjoyed this excerpt from a
column on the New Yorker's website:
"Trump is also the beneficiary of a long process of Republican intellectual decadence. Paul Ryan denounces Trump but not the Tea Party rhetoric that propelled his own political ascent. John McCain holds Trump in contempt, but selected as his running mate Sarah Palin, the Know-Nothing of Wasilla, one of Trump’s most vivid forerunners and supporters. Mitt Romney last week righteously slammed Trump as a “phony†and a misogynist, and yet in 2012 he embraced Trump’s endorsement and praised his “extraordinary†understanding of economics.
The G.O.P. establishment may be in a state of meltdown, but this process of exploiting the darkest American undercurrents began with Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy and, more lately, has included the birther movement and the Obama Derangement Syndrome. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who compete hard for the most extreme positions in conservatism, decry the viciousness and the vacuousness of Trump, but they started out by deferring to him––and now they ape his vulgarity in a last-ditch effort to keep pace. Insults. Bigotry. Nationally televised assurances of adequate genital dimensions. This is the political moment in which we live. The Republican Party, having spent years courting the basest impulses in American political culture, now sees the writing on the wall. It reads “Donald Trump,†in very big letters."
