Trump Derangement Syndrome

Good day all. Last week, Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States. Almost immediately massive cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome manifested itself.

Normally, you would expect TDS, much like it’s earlier version, BDS, (Bush Derangement Syndrome), to be afflicting those on the left side of the political spectrum. In this case, it’s actually afflicting members of the Establishment wing of the GOP and it’s followers. These sufferers refuse to accept that the voters have spoken and have found the candidates preferred by the GOP(e) to be seriously wanting.

Some of those suffering from TDS are:

• Bill Kristol, founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard.
• George Will, political commentator and baseball fan
• The Bush family
• Charles Krauthammer, Author and political commentator
• Senator Bob Sasse (R-Nebraska)
• The entire staff of the National Review

There are many others as well, almost all of them firmly in the Establishment camp. Bill Kristol is so badly infected with TDS that he wants to run an independent candidate. Never mind that it’s logistically to late to organize such a candidacy, Kristol so hates and despises Trump that he’s ready to push millions of dollars into the effort. In a recent editorial in his periodical, The Weakly Weekly Standard, he wrote:

I have always voted for the Republican presidential candidate. From Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford to Ronald Reagan (twice) and George H.?W. Bush (twice) and Bob Dole, from George W. Bush (twice) to John McCain and Mitt Romney—I’ve checked the box next to those eight names on all 11 occasions I’ve had the chance.

My GOP presidential voting streak will end at 11. I cannot vote for Donald Trump. It’s not clear that his mixed bag of motley policies would be superior to those of his Democratic opponent. He could well pick better Supreme Court justices, which is important; but he could well pursue a less sound foreign policy, which is also important. But policy is not the issue. Character is. It is clear that Donald Trump does not have the character to be president of the United States.

Kristol isn’t going to support Hillary Clinton either. So what does he want to do?

Find a better choice. Recruit and support an independent candidate.

Hate to tell you this, but the Primaries are essentially over and you lost dude.

The good news is that it is not too late to give Republican voters, a majority of whom have not supported Donald Trump in the primaries, an alternative. An independent Republican candidate can help prevent the conflation of the Republican party with Trump and of conservatism with Trumpism. Such a candidate could also appeal to many independents and some Democrats. He or she could win.

Actually, no, he or she can’t.

Getting an independent candidate on the ballot in all 50 states is less difficult than conventional wisdom has it. The only states whose ballot access deadlines are before the end of June are Texas and North Carolina, and those deadlines are susceptible to legal challenges that are being drawn up as I write. Those challenges will probably succeed—but if they fail, one would have to resort to a write-in campaign in those two states. A U.S. Senate candidate won a write-in campaign in 2010.

Kristol floated a couple of names to run a doomed independent candidacy. One of them, retired US Marine Corps General James Mattis has already said he won’t run. Other possibilities floated by other sufferers of TDS have included Mittens Romney, two time failed presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, and even bringing back Jeb Bush. (He seems to have come to the conclusion that blowing $150 million and winning four delegates won’t translate into an independent win)

Next we have columnist George Will. Will is also a contributor/commentator on Fox News and has been on the Never Trump bandwagon as soon as it became clear that Trump actually had a shot at the nomination. Now that Trump is the presumptive nominee, George Will has gone completely insane. In a recent column in the Washington Post, Will said it is the duty of the Republican party to make sure Trump loses all 50 states.

Just how bad is his TDS? See for yourselves.

Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.

Ted Cruz’s announcement of his preferred running mate has enhanced the nomination process by giving voters pertinent information. They already know the only important thing about Trump’s choice: His running mate will be unqualified for high office because he or she will think Trump is qualified.

This column was written prior to Cruz’s crushing defeat in Indiana, right after he announced that Carly Fiorina would be his VP. Most honest political commentators on both sides saw that move as a sign of desperation and that Cruz knew that it was all over for him. As for Will, his insane ravings only increased.

Trump would be the most unpopular nominee ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among women, minorities and young people. In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of the House. Ticket splitting is becoming rare in polarized America: In 2012, only 5.7 percent of voters supported a presidential candidate and a congressional candidate of opposite parties.

Will, like most of the sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome, isn’t really looking at what is happening in the country. This isn’t surprising since George Will is a classic “Beltway Bandit” and only travels into “Flyover country” when going to a baseball game. His assumption that Donald Trump will be the most unpopular nominee ever flies in the face of what happened in the Primaries. Trump won more votes than Will’s best buddy, Mittens Romney by a “yuuuge” amount. So, what is Will’s idea to “Stop Trump!”?

Were he to be nominated, conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states — condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life.

So, George Will is calling for Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is in a photo finish with an FBI criminal investigation, to be the next president of the United States?

Second, conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators, representatives, governors and state legislators as possible.

Do you mean “Conservative Senators” such as John McCain? He’s about as conservative is Hillary Clinton. To be honest, if Will were to actually get his way, it would be an outright slaughter for the GOP. Of course, this numbskull doesn’t see it that way.

If Trump is nominated, Republicans working to purge him and his manner from public life will reap the considerable satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party while working to see that they forgo only four years of the enjoyment of executive power.

The level of delusion by Will only increases.

Six times since 1945 a party has tried, and five times failed, to secure a third consecutive presidential term. The one success — the Republicans’ 1988 election of George H.W. Bush — produced a one-term president.

Do you know why George H.W. Bush was a one term president? It’s rather simple. When Bush won the election, people saw it as being Reagan’s third term. The problem was, Bush didn’t like anything Reagan stood for. He was chosen to be Reagan’s VP only as a means to unify the party behind Reagan. Once he was in office, Bush got rid of the Reagan holdovers and promptly began undoing all the good work Reagan had done. The voters rewarded him for his work by tossing his RINO ass into the ash heap of history, along with the Soviet Union.

If Clinton gives her party its first 12 consecutive White House years since 1945, Republicans can help Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, or someone else who has honorably recoiled from Trump, confine her to a single term.

Hillary Clinton is true evil incarnate. She is utterly unfit to hold any office and may still be criminally charged. Granted, it looks like the Obama Regime will do anything they can to protect her of course. Still, if George Will and others like him, those suffering from terminal TDS, were to get Clinton in office, the odds of there being a United States in 4 years are actually very low.

I can also say that the chances of a Republican Party still existing in such a circumstance, The GOP(e) torpedoing Trump’s candidacy in favor of Clinton, would be zero. The party would implode overnight and in short order, join the old Whig party in popularity.

These SCoaMF’s don’t understand why Trump won and will probably win the general election. Since Reagan left office, the Establishment Republicans have shoved one failure after another down the throats of the GOP base and told them to like it or lump it. The GOP(e) gave us free trade deals that freely shipped jobs overseas, refused to secure the borders, brought in foreign workers, (H1B Visa holders), to replace American workers and outright lied to the American people.

When Trump came out and started running, he told people that yes, he was rich, and that he thought everyone should have the same chance to be rich. He also saw the damage done to the economy by the incompetence and greed of both the Democrats and the Republicans in office. He said things that people not only wanted to hear, but generally agreed with.

The GOP(e) gave us wars that really weren’t in America’s interest. They thought that all they needed to do was get rid of a dictator and, in the cases of Iraq and Afghanistan, we could impose a democracy on them. Actually defending the country and destroying the enemy was never their agenda.

When Trump appeared and told people he would tear up these free trade agreements that were not fair to America, people cheered. When he said that he wouldn’t send troops into foreign wars unless America was threatened, people cheered again. When he said that if he did have to send in the military, he would make sure that we would all known what victory was, and he would let the military do whatever they needed to to achieve victory.

There is one last reason Trump is so hated by the Establishment Republicans. He isn’t and never has been, “One of them.” Trump didn’t go to Harvard or Yale. He doesn’t belong the same country clubs that they do. He actually listens to people and doesn’t appear to consider himself better than they are. This has driven the GOP(e) insane, to the point that they would rather Hillary Clinton win than Donald Trump. Sad.

Thatisall

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