Trump Is Dragging the GOP Where It Doesn’t Want to Go

[DonViejo]

Jonathan Chait: “Trump has already endured numerous mortifying gaffes, by ordinary standards, and an apparently unsuccessful effort by Fox News to destroy his standing within the party during a highly visible televised debate. He will not run out of money. He can, and probably will, take his candidacy all the way to the end.”

“The worst-case scenario for Republicans is if Trump decides to run a third-party campaign. Even managing to get his name on the ballot in a handful of states would bring victory out of reach for the GOP’s eventual nominee. The best-case scenario is that Trump straggles through the race, eventually supporting the nominee. But this scenario is also far from ideal. It means that Trump has shaped the tenor of the race in almost precisely the opposite way the party establishment had hoped.”

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http://politicalwire.com/2015/08/17/trump-is-dragging-the-gop-where-it-doesnt-want-to-go/

[fredamae]

1. I disagree with the

premise the GOP is being dragged anywhere...the "don" is Exposing where they already "went and Are". Being so Delusional as to believe they could continue to Hide that..even from their Own base..in perpetuity---well... I guess That might make them Uncomfortable.

[still_one]

2. I think you are right. Trump is representative of where the GOP has been for some time now

[CanonRay]

4. You are correct, what Trump is doing

is dragging all that nasty stuff out of the basement and into the daylight for all to see.

[CincyDem]

3. Trump is just saying in public what many, if not most, Rethugs say amongst themselves.

He has plugged in to the nerve that runs just beneath the Republican Party's thinning veneer of civility - racist, misogynist, jingoist, corporatist - it's all there splayed out on the primary banquet table for all to feast. Roger Ailes, arguably one of the Republican Party's strongest voices, learned this the hard way.

But...ultimately Trump is a business man and it won't surprise me to see him throw his support behind a Koch-candidate. In return, watch for some kind of alliance between a major Koch business and Trump Enterprises...one that will make Don forget all about the TV deal he lost with NBC.

For the Kochs, buying Trump will just be part of the cost of buying the election.