Should/can Trump be stopped? Yes, but not by the Republican Party. The GOP's Stop Trump stampede -- the anguished editorials, the cable-news rants, the pompous insider scolds, tens of millions of dollars in SuperPAC-funded attack ads that even smear his wife as a slut -- is counterproductive, playing into the framing of a guy who sells himself as an establishment pissing-off outsider.
The Stop Trump movement within the GOP is undemocratic to the point of making me want to retch. Trump has a commanding lead against rival Ted Cruz (680 delegates to 424, 37% of the popular vote to 27%). Considering that Trump began the race against 18 other candidates, the establishmentarian talking point that he can't get 50% of the vote is absurd. 37% is a commanding lead, and talk of pulling out some nothing guy who didn't even run (Ryan, Romney) in second-round voting at the Republican convention is an insult to those who voted for Trump and to democracy itself.
The raison d'etre for GOP anti-Trumpism is insane: he's not a "real conservative" -- this proto-fascist, they say, is too far left for their party .
If Republicans are serious about stopping Trump, they should pledge to support the Democratic nominee for president -- with their votes, their PR machines, their SuperPACs and campaigning in person.
If the Democrats are serious about stopping Trump, they should Stop Hillary.
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