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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWSJ‘s Bret Stephens: Trump Must Lose So Badly That the GOP Voters ‘Learn Their Lesson’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/wsjs-bret-stephens-trump-must-lose-so-badly-that-the-gop-voters-learn-their-lesson/Speaking to CNNs Fareed Zakaria Sunday afternoon, Wall Street Journals Bret Stephens said that it was important for Donald Trump to lose the general election so utterly that the Republican party and its voters learn their lesson and never nominate someone like him ever agin.
Stephens has been one of Trumps most outspoken conservative critics, writing in March, for instance, that Trump is essentially an amplified version of Barack Obama. Both men were epic narcissists who see themselves as singularly suited to redeem an America that is not only imperfect but fundamentally broken, he wrote.
The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism, he wrote on another occasion. I most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump, Stephens told Zakaria, adding that he wanted to make sure he is the biggest loser in presidential history in a very long time.
Stephens continued: Its important that Donald Trump and what he represents this kind of ethnic quote conservatism or populism be so decisively rebuked that the Republican party, the Republican voters learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.
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liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)He will fall in line and support herr goblin trump.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)They've floated the idea of supporting Clinton on another Murdoch venue:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/11/rupert-murdoch-hillary-clinton-and-politics-2016.html
Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)By supporting every lie and obstruction they could think of. The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the republican party.
Johonny
(20,685 posts)We can assume GOP voters cannot learn lessons. Your voting for the GOP candidate, there's your problem.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)TrappedInUtah
(87 posts)Voting GOP is already the definition of insanity. What exactly are they good for? Obstruction, family values(Right to discriminate), blocking progress, global warming denial, crushing the working class, keeping the WoD going, idiotic obsession with abortion and gays, etc.
rock
(13,218 posts)Additionally we don't want to teach them anything. Welcome to DU. (Assuming you're not an old time observer).
trotsky
(49,533 posts)All these decades of dog-whistle politics, while the party power brokers wink at each other and feed red meat to the dupes, have finally resulted in a base that truly believes what they've been told.
When Drumpf loses (and he better), they'll fall for an even scarier demagogue in 2016 unless the Republicans stop with the bullshit.
Rex
(65,616 posts)even one lonely brain cell. Poor dears...
Initech
(99,915 posts)I thought they hated government run education, did they not?
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)They did an autopsy after the Mitt disaster. Then they doubled down on what pushed him over the edge.
Self awareness is not an attribute that conservatism cultivates any more. "Lessons" are lost on them. They want more Duck Dynasty and apparently, more Apprentice.