Runaway Train..... Stephen F. Hayes

[mystery-ak]

Runaway Train

May 30, 2016 | By Stephen F. Hayes

http://www.weeklystandard.com/runaway-train/article/2002484

Yes, it’s a con. In the three weeks since Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee the remains of modern American conservatism have decayed at an alarming rate.

Three months ago, most GOP officeholders and conservative opinion leaders understood Trump to be an ignoramus and a boor, a vain reality-television star and a longtime donor to Democrats who had built his candidacy on the kind of progressive populism most of them had spent their careers fighting. Today, many of those same Republican elected officials and prominent conservatives are hailing Trump as the future of their party and the ideological movement it houses and excoriating anti-Trump conservatives who hold to the same position they took just a few weeks ago.

What's changed? Not Trump.

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[Wingnut]

Corker and Noonan and Abbott are confused. There's no reason to chill when a con man turns his marks, particularly people who know better, into accomplices.

I hope they like their promenade deck seats on the Trump Titanic.

[TomSea]

If I'm not missing the link, maybe this is it:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/runaway-train/article/2002484

[don-o]

With respect, Corker and Noonan and Abbott are confused. There's no reason to chill when a con man turns his marks, particularly people who know better, into accomplices. There's no obligation in the name of fairness, heroic or otherwise, to normalize a crazy man because he's won the support of 5 percent of the voting-eligible public. And, finally, while Abbott is right that the 2016 race has caused many conservatives to abandon their principles in support of a favored candidate, he's wrong about which conservatives have been willing to do so and wrong about which candidate they're supporting.

Last paragraph. Victims of THV - Trump Hypocrisy Virus.