re: #28 ericblair

Trump: The GOP wanted to fix the Romney-notRomney back and forth problem from 2012, so compressed the calendar and kept (with an asterisk) winner-take-all primaries. This was supposed to reduce the risk to the front runner. Trouble is, Trump became the frontrunner and all of the other greedy selfish pricks couldn’t work together to take him out, because that’s what they are. Voila, Trump.

They did not want to alienate Trump voters in the hopes of picking them up after he self-destructed. Except that Trump was campaigning as the anti-politician and complete outsider, which made him immune to gaffes that would have wrecked the campaign or even the career of any other politician.