2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJeb Bush trashes Trump on eve of GOP convention
Bush, once seen as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, remains one of the most prominent anti-Trump holdouts in the GOP. In an op-ed for The Washington Post published Friday, Bush acknowledged that Trump had capitalized on legitimate frustrations with American politics.
"They have given rise to the success of a candidate who continues to grotesquely manipulate the deeply felt anger of many Americans," Bush wrote, saying the nominee harkened back to an 1850s political party. "Trump's abrasive, Know Nothing-like nativist rhetoric has blocked out sober discourse about how to tackle America's big challenges."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/15/politics/jeb-bush-trashes-donald-trump-on-eve-of-republican-convention/
The op-ed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeb-bush-trump-does-not-represent-the-future-of-the-country--or-the-gop/2016/07/15/370bb6f8-49be-11e6-90a8-fb84201e0645_story.html
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This is quite remarkable. There is still a huge split in the GOP over Trump even as he is about to be officially nominated. Not sure where this is heading but clearly not good for them but good for us.
dubyadiprecession
(5,740 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,331 posts)abandon them. The base would never re-register as democrats like the DINO's. The GOP calculated that the base would have to accept whatever they offered.
The situation reminds me of the end of "Tommy The Who" with "We're Not Gonna Take It" and Tommy being shocked out of his mind by his disciples turning on him.
MurrayDelph
(5,307 posts)they can court The Crazies, and then control them. That's why they keep believing that old "The Enemy of my Enemy" canard. And they never realize the enemy of my enemy is only using us to get what they want.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)Carry on, governor.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)just brought in that and added the "Plug Ugly" movement as inspiration for why old, tired white men should vote for him. Had he connected plug uglies with Muslims in January, he would have been the nominee.
question everything
(47,616 posts)who, in 1976, lost the primaries, actually, the convention, to Ford, but came back swinging in 1980 and is still cherished by all the Republicans.
JHB
(37,166 posts)You, Jebsclamation point, are just pissed that Trump just showed up at your pitchfork-and-torch rally and stole your audience by waving pitchforks and torches himself.