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EL34x4

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7. Your second sentence says it all.
Thu May 5, 2016, 04:12 AM
May 2016

"All this hand wringing means that the "establishment" is just not in tune with what the party wants."

Every election year the GOP establishment throws a bunch of social issue bones to the rubes to get them to the polls. Once elected, they establishment proceeds to ignore them while hoping they don't notice their role in shipping jobs overseas, importing low-skilled workers for the jobs they haven't shipped overseas, and miring the U.S. military in pointless overseas adventures that hemorrhage the treasury.

Now Trump comes along and blows the whole charade wide open. The establishment is freaking out. They're about to lose their gravy train. But they're not just going to give it away without a fight.

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