Trump Making GOP Nightmares Come True on a Daily Basis

Tom Brown nails it here:

"If you dissuade people from using and practicing critical thinking skills long enough (so they're more malleable in the short term), can you really be surprised when they eventually turn into paranoid and enraged superstitious reactionaries? Willing to believe what any bullshitting jackass with a blog or radio show tells them?"

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-nobody-likes-political-scientists.html?showComment=1440942875739#c1292011490716617378

If you want to see why I'm a Trump Democrat-indeed, am 'The King of all Trum Democrats'

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-im-trump-democrat.html

just read this:

"Right now, Trump has his hand on the third rail of Republican politics. He’s arguing that wealthy people shouldn’t get a pass on paying regular federal income taxes. “The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it’s ridiculous, okay?”

"For almost any candidate, promising to reduce taxes on rich people is the price of admission into the Republican primary. Trump, by contrast, is poised not only to survive this apostasy, but to singe any of the more orthodox rivals who challenge him."

"Senator Marco Rubio’s tax plan represents the most pointed contrast to Trump’s middle-class populism. Rubio proposes not just to lower the top marginal income tax rate, but to completely zero out capital gains taxes. To escape scrutiny for offering such a huge sop to the wealthy, Rubio plans to fall back on his origin story—as the son of a bartender who worked at a hotel financed by investors, Rubio can elide the typical criticisms of trickle-down economics, by claiming to be a direct beneficiary of it. This might be an effective diversion against a Democratic politician promising to increase people’s taxes, but against a rapacious developer like Trump, it falls completely flat. Trump would love nothing more than for a career elected official like Rubio to lecture him about the impact tax rates have on investment and growth. Trump has managed to survive in the business world at a number of different capital gains tax rates, whereas Rubio has struggled to stay afloat, and racked up high levels of credit card debt, in the working world."

"If Trump were running an insurgent candidacy against Rubio and one other viable Republican, a supply-side platform would fare pretty well. Republican base voters aren’t as doctrinaire about taxes as Republican elites are, but they still support cutting taxes by a significant margin. In a smaller field, Rubio might be the standard bearer. Instead, the standard bearer claims to want to raise taxes on the rich. And much to the dismay of just about everyone else in the Republican Party, he isn’t going anywhere."

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122648/republicans-come-terms-their-worst-trump-nightmare

And it's all about immigration. Because of Trump's nativism on immigration-and that he gets away with calling women names and Mexicans rapists-they can accept anything else he says

As Greg Sargent said on Friday, this could even be an economically progressive policy agenda by Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/08/28/morning-plum-donald-trump-wants-to-tax-the-rich-will-republican-voters-agree-with-him/

So of course, I love, he totally screwing up the Republican party. More and more I'm coming to think that the endgame here may be genuine GOP Civil War where there is Trump third party run and maybe this party lasts behind this election cycle.

If this party has a groundswell-and when you see who's behind Trump: Rush, Howie Carr, Ann Coulter-how can you say it won't?-it could be the American version of the Scott Independent party with a happy reversal-for me as a liberal.

In Britain the SNP is decimating the Labor party-which is from my standpoint a horrible state of affairs.

But this new party of Trump could do the same thing to the GOP. What if it started running candidates at the state and local level too? Well a boy can dream.

But what ever happens beyond 2016, I think there is a real collusion course in the GOP if Trump keeps cleaning up in the pols like he is. If this does translate into winning primaries will the state GOP delegates do what voters are asking and vote for him or do they refuse?

I can see the latter happening and if that does, Trump will obviously be able to say he hasn't been treated fairly and his fans will be incensed.

In that case third party is the likely outcome. He won''t  win the general but the base will still feel vindication in destroying the establishment and then the Trumpist party expands to be a party with candidates in many parts of the country.