Here is another failure (abject, in my opinion) to understand the Trump phenomenon. It's really quite simple: First, Trump (unlike, say, Jeb Bush) is a man of action; he gets things done. Second, Trump speaks the truth about people such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They are incompetent, despicable, and corrupt. Conservatives are sick to death of their candidates (and elected representatives) showing respect for thugs. (Remember John McCain going out of his way to defend Obama from a woman in McCain's town-hall audience? It was a sickening moment, one which caused more than a few conservatives to stay home on election day.) Third, Trump is not beholden to donors (e.g., the Koch brothers), the political class (e.g., Karl Rove), the beltway establishment (e.g., Charles Krauthammer and George Will), Washington insiders (e.g., Mitch McConnell and John Boehner), or think tanks. He is his own man. The chance of Donald Trump being co-opted by establishment Republicans is close to zero.
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