Red State’s Leon Wolf is unimpressed with Donald Trump’s list of ten possible nominations he’d make to the Supreme Court:
Look, if you’re an absolute sucker who’s decided to defenestrate your discernment in order to ease your conscience about pulling the lever for a mentally unstable person in November, you might believe this. If, however, you have a functioning long term memory, you will remember that Trump has lied or flip-flopped about literally everything during the course of this primary.
Unity…it’s not just for Democrats.
I know Rachel Maddow has been pounding the drum that this is only a beltway Republican problem but I’m still not so sure. Anecdotally I know a lot of Republicans that are having a hard time seeing themselves voting for Trump. What will they end up doing is anyone’s guess.
They’ll vote for him. I interacted with a Republican the other day at my friend’s house — it’s like finding a fucking leprechaun among peers — and she didn’t want to talk about it. This is the first time I’ve met her and therefore have no idea who she really is, or who she supported (if I had to guess, based on nothing but gut, I’d say Kasich). But I take her not wanting to talk about it to mean that when she’s in that private voting booth, with no one looking, she’ll pull that lever for Trump.
Maybe not.
Anyway:
Trump has 87%. Now I suppose one could say “As a result of Trump, however, there are a fewer number of Republicans and therefore it will still be a lower raw total.” Maybe. It’s cold comfort.
I know a lot of Republicans and right now they’re not even really hedging, they’re calling Trump all the things we are that’s why I’m not entirely convinced that he doesn’t have some trouble. Although it is possible that they don’t classify themselves as Republicans anymore but as Independents so they wouldn’t really poll the way we would expect.
They’ll all be goose-stepping by November.
John Yoo is a fan:
Clinton wins by killing off the Democratic Party then takes over a headless Republican Party. And other fantasies of how a hostile duopoly merger can take place.
Looks to me like two unstable persons running this Fall.
I’ve been reading redstate.com every day or two for a while. This bit of “disunity” is nothing new. That whole delusional community has been venomously anti-Trump for months. These are conservative movement dead-enders. They’ll never give up on social issues OR their false religion of small govt and tax cuts and they despise anyone who isn’t passionately with them on BOTH fronts. They had come to terms with not having quite enough votes to win the presidency, but they’re nowhere near the realization that Trump has geometrically shrunk the size of their socially and economically draconian “movement”.
Its almost like the current system isn’t up to facing the challenges of the day.
I am VERY pleased none of his picks went to Harvard. About the only redeeming feature of the thing.
Now if we could just disqualify every economist coming out of Chicago…
Matt Taibbi does one of AG’s choruses:
R,I.P. GOP: How Trump is killing the Republican Party
Another quote from Taibbi’s piece:
The modern campaign that comprises mostly marketing. GOTV requires more.
Trump will need to recruit as volunteers or hire his Trumpistas to get out the vote. Will he demonstrate the final commercialization of campaigns by contracting his GOTV to a temporary labor firm?
Thats how “petitioners” do their work in Washington State.