I'm no fan of Ryan Cooper-because he's a Hillary basher-but here is he dead on about the GOP hopes of stopping Trump.
"GOP elites think stealing the nomination from Trump will be a cakewalk. They're wrong."
"Primary elections have been exhaustively covered and have developed a deep democratic legitimacy. If Trump comes into the convention with a large plurality of delegates, trying to wrest the nomination from him is courting disaster. It probably wouldn't even work, as the delegates would likely get cold feet at what amounts to a massive, bald-faced election theft. Even if it did, Trump would have every reason to attempt a third-party run and split the conservative vote — and might even do better than the Republican candidate.
"Trying to wrest the nomination from Cruz as well, so the billionaire donor class can hand it to one of their pets who didn't even enter the primary, is even crazier than that. It's the kind of thing that actually destroys parties. At that point the donors would be openly stamping on the expressed preference of something like nine-tenths of their own voters, and all but teeing up a presidential challenger that would beat their own candidate by 40 points."
"The GOP elite, such as it is, is largely controlled by people who think a full-blown populist rebellion can be handled with a few backroom conversations and massive checks. They're about to find out the hard way that they're wrong."
http://theweek.com/articles/616917/gop-elites-think-stealing-nomination-from-trump-cakewalk-theyre-wrong
Cooper wrote this before Ryan made it clear that not only is he not the White Knight to save the GOP, but that there will be no white knights.
The only other possible choice is Cruz and even he may come in so far behind as to have little legitimacy.
Josh Marshall has a new piece that documents how those celebrating the demise of Trump again may well be dead wrong.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumpmentum-yes-trumpmentum-really
"GOP elites think stealing the nomination from Trump will be a cakewalk. They're wrong."
"Primary elections have been exhaustively covered and have developed a deep democratic legitimacy. If Trump comes into the convention with a large plurality of delegates, trying to wrest the nomination from him is courting disaster. It probably wouldn't even work, as the delegates would likely get cold feet at what amounts to a massive, bald-faced election theft. Even if it did, Trump would have every reason to attempt a third-party run and split the conservative vote — and might even do better than the Republican candidate.
"Trying to wrest the nomination from Cruz as well, so the billionaire donor class can hand it to one of their pets who didn't even enter the primary, is even crazier than that. It's the kind of thing that actually destroys parties. At that point the donors would be openly stamping on the expressed preference of something like nine-tenths of their own voters, and all but teeing up a presidential challenger that would beat their own candidate by 40 points."
"The GOP elite, such as it is, is largely controlled by people who think a full-blown populist rebellion can be handled with a few backroom conversations and massive checks. They're about to find out the hard way that they're wrong."
http://theweek.com/articles/616917/gop-elites-think-stealing-nomination-from-trump-cakewalk-theyre-wrong
Cooper wrote this before Ryan made it clear that not only is he not the White Knight to save the GOP, but that there will be no white knights.
The only other possible choice is Cruz and even he may come in so far behind as to have little legitimacy.
Josh Marshall has a new piece that documents how those celebrating the demise of Trump again may well be dead wrong.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumpmentum-yes-trumpmentum-really
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