re: #20 makeitstop

Could it be that the condemnation of Trump’s statements but not Trump himself is actually the GOP’s horribly inept attempt at letting Trump twist in the wind?

Mind you, I’m not giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt by any stretch - but these aren’t world-class political strategists we’re talking about here.

I think they’re betting their careers on the prospect that in a cycle or two, Trump will look like a singularly bizarre event, an oh-my-God particle of derp that shouldn’t be seen as a culmination of a generation of Republican strategy and discourse but rather a strange blip in the national consciousness.

It would be interesting to know what career penalties were suffered by backers of Goldwater, and see if that’s a path that current Republican office-holders think they can follow. Evaluated callously, it might not be a bad strategy.