Trump As Republican Apocalypse
I am fond of the word “apocalypse,” which in common usage means “the end of the world,” but etymologically means “an unmasking.”
.. Taking a stand against Trump is all well and good. But I’d have been more impressed by an honest effort to come clean: Yes, we’re the establishment; yes, we’ve made some massive mistakes and need to change course; but Trump is not the answer.
Instead, we’re left with the same old denial of responsibility.
Until that changes, the Republican establishment will remain vulnerable to the anti-establishment furies it unleashed so many years ago and has never ceased to encourage.
.. It really is hard to overstate the degree to which people on the Right’s leadership class think of themselves as outsiders.
.. like Fidel Castro playing the eternal revolutionary