By Daniel Payne, DECEMBER 7, 2015

It is less than a year until the 2016 elections, and Trump shows no real signs of going away. The man that should have been a laughable six-week distraction has turned into an incomprehensible near-six-month frontrunner. There is no longer any merit nor utility to pretending he is not a serious threat to the Right’s prospects in 2016.
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It’s been five months of assuming that Trump’s bid for the candidacy has been teetering on the brink, while he has steadily creeped upward in the polls. Trump has been towering above the rest of the field since August.
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Most intelligent people are at a loss as to what is to be done about Trump’s seemingly-unshakable success, as well they should be. Trump is a bizarre, capering spectacle of successful incoherence, a phenomenon that by any reasonable understanding should simply not exist, like firenados or volcanic lightning.

But whatever the inexplicable rationale for his continued relevance—whether it’s populist anger with “the establishment,” or the draw of Trump’s peculiar aversion to reality, or the appeal of his red-faced billionaire bluster—we must admit this first and foremost: Trump is fully capable of destroying the Right’s chances for the presidency in 2016.

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Trump has both the mentality and the emotional depth of an eight-year-old brat, and he will not take kindly to being shoved aside in favor of someone who’s actually capable of doing the job.
GOP may have to deal with this when it comes along. But we will be helpless to do anything about Trump unless, like the old Alcoholics Anonymous maxim, we first admit we have a problem.

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The former could and quite possibly may be neutralized by either Rubio or Cruz, but the latter poses an absolutely credible threat. Trump has both the mentality and the emotional depth of an eight-year-old brat, and he will not take kindly to being shoved aside in favor of someone who’s actually capable of doing the job.
us stop making gleeful and self-assured predictions of Trump’s imminent demise. He may indeed be on the way out, but we can no longer afford to simply assume it. We should instead look at Trump in the same way that we look at Hillary Clinton: as an inevitably, a contingency that is all but certain in some form or another, something that must be honestly studied and planned for.

Thanksgiving has passed. 2015 is almost over. We no longer have the luxury of blithely supposing that Trump is anything other than a serious and long-term presence in the 2016 field.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/07/dona...snt-going-away/

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What do you think of that article, TM?

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #4

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About the only thing I agree with in this article is "we first admit we have a problem.". Hint it's not Donald Trump although one could say his popularity is symptomatic of the problem. Could it be that the populace has caught on the the egop's well worn bait and switch routines ?

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