Heh. George Will has a sad on about Donald Trump.

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2. Yeah, they won't learn anything from this either.

It's not like this is the first sign that their 'bubble world' technique was getting away from them, either. The GOP establishment had to shoehorn Romney into the nomination last time, and the Tea Party's influence in Congress has repeatedly left the party incapable of playing the old 'compromise' game with establishment Democrats to advance their mutually corporate agenda.

But where else can they go at this point? Reagan really began a lot of this nonsense by making Evangelicals into a voting block for the GOP. When you're pushing an openly 1%er's only agenda, you have to really court the moron vote, and the Republican Party has drifted way, way further in that direction than Reagan ever dared. Their ideas just aren't viable in a national election anymore, and are becoming less so every year.