Hindsight provides plenty of insight on why the GOP establishment's fear of a Trump candidacy makes all kinds of sense. In terms of his potential for seriously jeopardizing the Party's immediate and long-term future, Donald Trump represents the second coming of Sarah Palin wrapped in Ross Perot-like packaging. As a presidential candidate Trump is more a hype-man -- a roaring cacophony of insubstantial bluster -- than a politician; just like Palin. Thus, it's easy to presume that Trump has made the business decision to use his "gift" to bolster his empire similar to the way Palin parlayed a failed political career and talent for demagoguery into a financially lucrative, pseudo-populist sideshow which, in the final analysis worked to the detriment of the Republican Party.
This time around there's a distinction -- Trump and Palin are of the opposite sex-- but not much difference. Regardless of his past liberal leanings, Trump on the stump as a 21st century conservative is a throwback carousel of shrill high jinks, crude monkeyshine, and xenophobic psycho-linguistics delivered in the Palin-perfect pitch of false indignation. And to the group to whom Trump panders, the projection of America's unique level of exceptionalism that building a Great Wall of China along America's southern border at Mexico's expense might evoke, seems to also function as a barrier to their recognition of the long-term political consequences to their party of such ideas.
And, much to the dismay of Priebus and others, it is precisely this sort of ISIS-like approach by Trump -- unleashing the zealousness and fervor of the ass-end of the Party's base as a "wrecking ball" against a more "secular" Republican establishment -- that has made him the current face of the Republican Party and the lead Bozo among the GOP's ever-expanding insane clown posse of 2016 presidential hopefuls.
Art of the Deal?
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