{"id":1003,"date":"2016-02-25T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2016-02-25T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:25:28","slug":"understanding-the-republican-primaries-pitchforks-and-torches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Republican Primaries – Pitchforks and Torches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FCC<\/a>I don’t like sounding like “Mr. I-Told-You-So,” but a Trump candidacy has been building for years. \u00a0I warned people back in late 2007\/early 2008 that Obama was telling the truth about what he was going to do. \u00a0It wasn’t the kind of rhetoric that people expect that just goes away once you’re elected. \u00a0In some ways, Trump is the push-back against Obama and his ilk’s progressivism.<\/p>\n

The other – and more important – part of it is, as I said years before even Obama, that we (as in “the voters”) will have to take out the Republican party leadership before we can worry about the Democrats. \u00a0I think that, more than anything, has to do with Trump’s success. \u00a0After throwing the voters under the bus less than two weeks after the 2014 election, the option of a compromise between the grassroots and the leadership disappeared. \u00a0Since 2010, every attempt to trust you has been met with contempt. \u00a0If you want to see the root cause of the Trump candidacy, you need to look in a mirror. \u00a0In short, the Republican party leadership is a greater threat to the Republic than either Clinton or Sanders.<\/p>\n

No, Trump is not<\/i> a conservative. \u00a0He is a liberal. \u00a0I’m using those terms in the Jefferson-Hamilton context. \u00a0But he is not a progressive which, is what now makes up the Democrat party and the Republican leadership. \u00a0More important is that he is a tactical nuke that is being targeted on the political class whether politician, academian or press. \u00a0Nothing less that the destruction of those will satisfy the voters at this point. \u00a0That applies to both the general Republican voting base as well as the Blue Dog centrist and conservative Democrat voters.<\/p>\n

The funny part of this is that of the two alternatives, both Cruz and Rubio are also non-establishment candidates. \u00a0The one establishment candidate left is actually Kasich. \u00a0The only reason I think the political class is throwing their support behind Rubio is that they believe they can bully him in at least some respects. \u00a0We’ve seen that<\/i>\u00a0mistake from him already. \u00a0Rubio is the only way they manage to keep any<\/i>\u00a0degree of influence. \u00a0Unfortunately for them, the more they sign up behind Rubio, the lower his support in the elections will sink. \u00a0By supporting him they are killing his chance of winning.<\/p>\n

More important, Rubio is the only one I think that Hillary might manage to beat. \u00a0A lot of people will sit out a Rubio general election and there won’t the the disaffected Blue Dogs to make up for it like there would be for Trump. \u00a0At this point, that is the best case scenario as far as the Republican party leadership is concerned. \u00a0 That is the only way they maintain their current status quo of power. \u00a0 In a way that’s the most ironic part of all this. \u00a0 For the Party establishment to survive, they have to lose.<\/p>\n

Actually, in my opinion, Rubio simply cannot win the nomination. \u00a0If Rubio quits, his votes will most likely go to Cruz. \u00a0If Cruz quits, his votes will unquestionably go to Trump. \u00a0If Trump quits, his votes will go to Cruz. \u00a0I’m talking delegates, here, not popular votes. \u00a0Truth is Rubio has already lost. \u00a0One was or another, there will be some sort of deal and peace between Trump and Cruz further down the road. \u00a0Most Trump supporters see his histrionics for what they are, so they won’t be a problem. \u00a0The Kool-Aid drinking Trumpettes will either a) do what Trump tells them to do or b) sit out and be irrelevant. \u00a0This die-hard group is smaller than most think, in my opinion, and the group that sits out is even smaller.<\/p>\n

That’s the good thing about Trump\/Cruz\/Rubio. \u00a0In essence, the election coming down to these three mean the establishment have already lost and it’s just a matter of how long it takes them to die. \u00a0They are<\/i>\u00a0the walking dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t like sounding like “Mr. I-Told-You-So,” but a Trump candidacy has been building for years. \u00a0I warned people back in late 2007\/early 2008 that Obama was telling the truth about what he was going to do. \u00a0It wasn’t the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Understanding the Republican Primaries - Pitchforks and torches! #tcot","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[22,153,49,51,53,56,57,237,68,100,106,203,241,243,115,202],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","category-politics","tag-tcot","tag-cruz","tag-culture-2","tag-current-events","tag-democrats","tag-election","tag-election-2016","tag-establishment","tag-government","tag-politics-2","tag-progressives","tag-republicans","tag-rino","tag-rubio","tag-tea-party","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-gb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}