Submission or scalp: Trump's GOP purges dissent By Dr. Paul G. Kengor
July 22, 2016
In his latest piece posted at Townhall, veteran conservative columnist Pat Buchanan has joined the brigade of Trumpists demanding—yes, demanding—that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) fall in lock step with the Party line and salute the leader.
Before getting to Buchanan’s demand of Cruz’s conformity to the dictates of the Party, let’s first consider the commands of other Trumpists, because their behavior is astonishing and appalling, and not something we should be seeing in America, let alone the Republican Party.
In response to Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement on Wednesday evening, Trump hatchet man Roger Stone called Ted Cruz “a treacherous pr*ck.”
Fellow Trump attack-dog Michael Cohen likewise hammered Cruz, calling him “a baby” and “a sore loser” and saying that Cruz had committed “political suicide” by not endorsing the leader.
New York Congressman Peter King ripped Cruz as “a fraud” and “a self-centered liar,” who “should be disqualified from ever being considered as a nominee for President of the United States in the future."
Chris Christie called Cruz “awful” and “selfish.”
Yes, that’s right: Ted Cruz—not Donald Trump—is, in the minds of Trumpists, a narcissist.
And New York Congressman Chris Collins, who has the painfully embarrassing task of catching spears for Donald Trump regularly on CNN, said that the “self-absorbed” and “narcissistic” Cruz “ended his own career” on Wednesday evening and “should never be president.”
Yes, that’s right: Ted Cruz—not Donald Trump—is, in the minds of Trumpists, a narcissist.
Kayleigh McEnany leveled the same breathtaking charge at Cruz on CNN the night of Cruz’s speech. She said that Cruz, not Trump, suffered from narcissism.
Sarah Palin, too, has stepped forward, telling Breitbart that she wants Ted Cruz politically dead—permanently. She dubs his betrayal of the leader “career-ending.”
Let the purge begin. Trumpists apparently want the revolution to begin with the scalp of their man’s chief political adversary. Submission or scalp. Such is not unusual among political movements. As Trotsky said, the revolutionaries will not arrive at their kingdom with white gloves on a polished floor; blood will need to be spilled.
This brutal treatment of Ted Cruz is, obviously, shocking, but it’s especially outrageous given the target and circumstances. Consider this:
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Pat Buchanan tells us that the “weeping and gnashing of teeth are justified.” Not seeing any self-righteousness in his own words, he judges Ted Cruz: “For these self-righteous folks are all getting eviction notices. They are being dispossessed of their homes.”
Dispossessed of their homes? Wow. Alas, where’s the howling Siberian wilderness when you need it?
Buchanan tells us the big picture that’s at stake here: He informs us that what is being born is “a new Republican Party.” Apparently so. If this is the new Republican Party of Donald Trump, then I want nothing to do with it. Goodbye. Sayonara. Adios. Ciao. Enjoy your new GOP, folks.
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