“Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them,” write Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, with a little help from Dave Weigel.
Perhaps these trembling bigshots and double-domes might consider that it is they who have placed the Republican Party in an intellectual straitjacket that requires every candidate to commit to trillion-dollar tax cuts for the rich and trillion-dollar increases in spending for the Pentagon, while repeatedly lying to the base about their concern for the “reproductive” issues of abortion and gay marriage, not to mention their supposed, and entirely fallacious, devotion to “the Wall,” intended to protect us from the hordes from the South, who these days are happily staying where they are. For decades, the Republican elites have treated their base as a matador treats a bull, and the bull’s horns keep getting longer, and the matador’s cape keeps getting smaller. Good luck, guys!
Afterwords
Phil and Bob tell us that “some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again.” Recruiting Mitt? That’s not desperation. That’s insanity.
