"Last week George Will joined David Harsanyi
in pouring oceans of vitriol and contempt on Donald Trump and his
supporters. Will's dismissal of Trump and those who cheer him on --
dripping arrogance and anger -- seems to be a spreading habit among
conservative commentators. I concede, though, few if any writers ever
reach Will's level of sneering contempt, superiority and condescension.
This treatment of the Trump phenomenon, by both Republican Party leaders
and many conservative commentators, bodes ill for the Party nominee's
chances in 2016. A repeat of the presidential elections of 1912 and 1992
is becoming ever more plausible, whether or not a defeated Trump runs a
third party campaign."
[American Thinker]
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"THE Donald Trump
phenomenon is a great gift to pundits because it can be analyzed and
criticized in so many different ways. But two shorthands seem
particularly useful. First, Trump is essentially using the Republican
primary to run a third-party campaign, not a right-wing insurgency.
Second, Trump’s appeal is oddly like that of Franklin Roosevelt, in the
sense that he’s a rich, well-connected figure — a rich New Yorker, at
that — who’s campaigning as a traitor to his class.
These two elements of Trumpism are intimately connected. In American
politics, the two-party system, no less than the Senate or the Supreme
Court, has long served as a check on pure democracy, a means of elite
control. So long as there are only two competitive parties, the
political diversity of the country will be channeled through their
sluice gates, and the (mostly upper-class, highly-educated,
self-consciously globalist) people who run the parties will exercise
disproportionate control over which ideas find representation."
[NY Times]
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