2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRepub Political Strategist NY Daily News Op-Ed: Beat him like a drum
This is a long piece. You won't regret reading the whole thing. He's no Hillary fan, but he completely dismantles Trump, his voters, the Republican Party and its leaders with harsh but surgical precision:
Beat him like a drum: Donald Trump must not just lose in November; to correct the institutions hes broken, he must suffer a humiliating defeat
It's been a little over a year now. It's been a year of spectacle and showmanship, fury and farce, demagoguery and disaster. A year in which Donald Trump's con game tricked about 35% of Republicans into voting for him, before Vichy Republican leaders meekly bowed to his will.
The single worst major party nominee in modern history a man who has no political core, lies practically every time he speaks and is patently unstable reached this point because every leader and institution in my party, the Republican Party, has failed again and again to grapple with the grim realities of Trump's impact on the election, the conservative movement and the character of our nation.
And so, now, here we are: As revealed by poll after poll, Americans feel worn down by the dirty, ugly character of the dirty, ugly candidate at the top of the GOP ticket.
It's not just that, in the wake of the Democratic Convention, Hillary Clinton has surged ahead in national polls by seven, nine, 15 points.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/rick-wilson-beat-trump-drum-article-1.2739979
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(19,803 posts)Thanks.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)an autopsy to figure out what went wrong with your party.
Oh yeh, that was tried already and the party of stupid people rejected it. Maybe they will learn a much needed lesson and learn to put Country First. And I'm sorry, but McConnell has to go, too. After all, it was he was leading the Do Nothing Congress strategy these past 8 years, followed by the TEA Party and the Science Deniers.