It’s Clear That Only Hillary Clinton Can Stop Donald Trump
Matthew Yglesias: After Super Tuesday, it’s clear that only Hillary Clinton can stop Donald Trump
There are three main problems with Donald Trump as a candidate for national office, none of which can be effectively exploited by the Republican Party but all of which can be exploited by Clinton. The problems are:
Trump is a racist.
Trump’s business record is unimpressive and ethically dodgy.
Trump’s policy ideas are terrible.
There is simply no reason to believe that this is what the American people are looking for.The problem Republicans have is that is that these flaws are not flaws that a Republican Party politician can effectively articulate to an audience of Republican Party primary voters.
Republican Party primary voters think that white people being shamed for racism is a bigger problem than white people doing racist stuff.
Republican Party elites are ideologically committed to the defense of inherited wealth and opposed to the regulation of business in the public interest.
Republican Party elites essentially share Trump’s least-popular and most-obviously-ridiculous policy idea — an enormous tax cut for the rich — so they can’t criticize it.