What it is that Romney, Brooks, Kristol, Will, Rubin, etc hate most about Trump:

[cali]

He's tacky, vulgar- and that pains them deeply. They may say it's about his character and judgment but that's the real rub. After all,.they worship Reagan.

[HERVEPA]

1. They don't own him.

[cali]

2. Baloney.

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[HERVEPA]

3. Why baloney? I do hate him by the way.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He gives George Will the vapors.

And that's fun to watch. Trump is tacky, extremely so, which I don't get. He's not nouveau riche, his family was very rich; he went to all the "right" schools and lived in the right places - and yet he acts like he'd spent his whole life in a shack in the woods somewhere and just won the Powerball. His New York apartment looks like Versailles redecorated by Saddam Hussein's pimp (all gilded and fake Louis XIV), and his Florida place (where he's suing to keep airplanes from flying over it) looks like a combination of Disney World and a gigantic brothel. "Old money" types don't advertise how rich they are - that's considered terribly gauche; but it's what Trump does all the time. Being rich is his thing; it's how he proves his awesomeness to the world. And all those establishment Republicans are horrified at his gaucherie but they won't come out and say it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. That's the thing about Trump. He's this weird amalgamation between old money and new money.

He's got an "old money" inherited background and yet combines it with "new money" tackiness.

Meanwhile, on this end, too often both "old money" and "new money" become synonymous with being incredibly out of touch with the normal person. So it's all just two sides of the same billion dollar coin.

[cali]

8. I know. I don't get it either.

I suppose New York figures in. I'm a few years younger than Trump, but I grew up less than an hour away in New Canaan, private day school, prep school, yada yada, and he is nothing like the people I grew up with. And in those days, new money didn't live in New Canaan or go to Choate or Pomfret.

[smirkymonkey]

11. This description cracks me up!

It's so spot on!

[truebluegreen]

5. I think it's because he says out loud all the crap

that they and their party represent. After all, it wasn't what Rmoney said about the 47% that was objectionable, it was that someone publicized it. So in that sense you are right: Reagan was a master at dog-whistling and Trump certainly is not.

[The Second Stone]

7. All of the above. He's openlly bigoted

crass, tasteless, boorish and most importantly, uncontrollable. And he's been this way his whole adult life. It's bizarre considering his money is at least second generation and he went to "the right schools".

[cali]

9. His father didn't grow up wealthy and was a crook as well as going to kkk marches

[just4lulzidk]

10. nah, what they hate most is the fact that he voices in public

what those vile human beings truly believe in their heart(less) of hearts and say only behind closed doors

he's vocalizing their hate clearly in a way that frank luntz and other republican propagandists have tried to mask for decades

after all, never forget that states' rights is just republican codeword for: we want the right to take rights away from whomever we damn well choose