Daily Kos writer Hunter is amazed at the ongoing failure of supposedly influential Republicans to understand that as far as the party base is concerned, Donald Trump’s “racism and sexism and conspiracy theories” are features, not bugs. The peg for Hunter’s Monday post was a new TV ad from the GOP-friendly Our Principles PAC which quotes a slew of the degrading comments Trump has made about women.
“This fine group of Republican party stalwarts does deserve some kudos for their late-in-the-day attempts to walk the party back from the brink of Trumpism so they can snuggle back into the warm embrace of a Ted Cruz theocracy or a Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan-style feeding of the poor into wood chippers,” allowed Hunter. “But that doesn’t mean any of it is going to work. Trump has given the conservative base a taste of what they could have…and who knows if they'll settle for merely shutting down the government in Cruzian tantrums.”
From Hunter’s piece (bolding added):
Now, let's say they broadcast this ad lavishly in the upcoming primary states. And it doesn't work.
What's Plan B? Or Plan C? Really, how many different ways can you make the very, very obvious point that Donald Trump is a horrible human being with horrible beliefs—again, a grotesque walking toilet of a man—only to have it bounce off the Republican electorate before someone finally puts two and two together and deduces that perhaps there's a bigger Republican problem here?
This fine group of Republican party stalwarts does deserve some kudos for their late-in-the-day attempts to walk the party back from the brink of Trumpism so they can snuggle back into the warm embrace of a Ted Cruz theocracy or a Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan-style feeding of the poor into wood chippers. But that doesn’t mean any of it is going to work. Trump has given the conservative base a taste of what they could have: A package of racism and sexism and conspiracy theories galore, and who knows if they'll settle for merely shutting down the government in Cruzian tantrums, much less shutting up so that the party's op-ed leaders can guide them into the shining future that is
Marco RubioJohn Kasich……Let's say Trump comes out of the convention with the Republican nomination…
So can we expect principled Republicans like Our Principles PAC to still be running ads like the above during the general election? Or will they begrudgingly join hands and rally behind the man calling women bimbos and dogs and fat pigs after all?
Guess we'll just have to wait and see how deep "Our Principles" really go.
