"Drumpf"
Unsurprisingly, the damage
inflicted by the crazies on the GOP's presidential aspirations over the last
two election cycles is a reality clearly not lost on 2008 GOP nominee, Arizona Senator
John McCain. When McCain sounded an early
alarm last year about Trump "firing
up the crazies," he expressed a scornful
truism regarding a group of voters about which he has close, personal knowledge.
After all, it was McCain who accepted Sarah Palin as his running mate in
2008. In doing so, he unleashed an individual who awakened every bat-sh*t crazy
American voter who might have previously felt that the daft fantasies they held
for so long were becoming less likely to be realized. McCain understands
that Palin helped steer the GOP onto its road to extinction and apparently
recognizes Trump as a threat to finish the job.
If so, as seems likely, then Trump has to go.
Without question, in expelling Trump, the GOP establishment must be prepared to weather not just rioting by the crazies but also, an epic sh*t-storm of condemnation from the entire realm of the political spectrum. It must also be willing to accept certain defeat at the polls in November, something which appears likely anyway with Trump as its nominee.
But on the upside, by systematically eradicating "Trumpism" from its ranks as quickly as possible, the Party has a fighting chance at properly re-building and re-branding itself through a potential influx of voters from populations which, within a few years, will far surpass the number of angry white males who represent the face of the Republican Party today.
Perhaps Republican Party leaders should figure a way of enforcing a litmus test designed to alienate the Party's most extreme elements. A good place to start might be requiring all potential GOP candidates for the Party nomination to endorse a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
But right now what's most important is for the GOP to tell Trump that he will no longer be acquiesced; that the Republican Party is taking its ball, going home and that he can no longer tag along. Such a move would be the first step toward cleansing its ranks of perhaps its most extreme figurehead since the emergence of Barry Goldwater along with the crazies who look up to folks like him.
In the aftermath, Trump can do as George Wallace did in the '60's after the Democratic base rejected Wallace's attempts to hijack their Party -- "The Donald" can scoop up his relatively large but largely fading bloc of American crazies and set up his own third party fiefdom.
Perhaps it could be called: The "Drumpf " Party
(Article changed on April 5, 2016 at 10:38)
(Article changed on April 5, 2016 at 10:39)
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