The Donald Trump ascendancy is giving the establishment RINOS (Republicans In Name Only) conniptions. From the New York Times:
Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump
The scenario Karl Rove outlined was bleak.
Addressing a luncheon of Republican governors and donors in Washington on Feb. 19, he warned that Donald J. Trump’s increasingly likely nomination would be catastrophic, dooming the party in November. But Mr. Rove, the master strategist of George W. Bush’s campaigns, insisted it was not too late for them to stop Mr. Trump, according to three people present.
No, what has happened is that Rove et. al. have sold out the party to special interests with money. They stopped listening to We The People all the while Trump is appealing directly to We The People. More:
Despite all the forces arrayed against Mr. Trump, the interviews show, the party has been gripped by a nearly incapacitating leadership vacuum and a paralytic sense of indecision and despair, as he has won smashing victories in South Carolina and Nevada. Donors have dreaded the consequences of clashing with Mr. Trump directly. Elected officials have balked at attacking him out of concern that they might unintentionally fuel his populist revolt. And Republicans have lacked someone from outside the presidential race who could help set the terms of debate from afar.
Heh - Schadenfreude writ large. What is especially telling is that the article only mentions Ted Cruz once in passing as being a problem for Marco Rubio's campaign. Both houses need to be burned down and rebuilt from the ground up. The rot is deep and beyond repair.
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