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Ever since accessorize hats last Thursday night's televised G.O.P. debate, the Republican primary race has turned into a demolition derby. Marco Rubio, who for a long time portrayed himself as the young, positive, Kennedyesque candidate in the race, is now calling Donald Trump a "con artist" and throwing every other insult at the front-runner that he can, including, over the weekend, a thinly veiled penis-size joke . Trump, for his part, has been berating "Little Marco" at every opportunity, labelling him a "choke artist" who is too unmanly to be President. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is attacking both Trump and _ _Rubio.
If you've been following all of this bile in real time, on social media, it is easy to miss the larger reality that it reflects. With Trump in a strong position to win the primary, Republicans are engaged in a bitter battle not just about who will represent them in November, but about the broader nature of their party. For bridal hats the past forty years, the G.O.P. has been an uneasy alliance of social conservatives, free-market conservatives, and corporate interest groups, with the latter largely dictating economic policy. Trump has been drawing on a base of alienated white working-class and middle-class voters, seeking to remake the G.O.P. into a more populist, nativist, avowedly bucket hat for men protectionist, and semi-isolationist party that is skeptical of immigration, free trade, and military interventionism.
If he were to succeed in this quest, he would arguably be the most consequential Republican since Ronald Reagan, in part by challenging some aspects of Reagan's legacy. Of course, Trump's own bequest could well up being ruinous: if he does get the nomination, his racism, xenophobia, and megalomania would hopefully condemn the G.O.P. to a massive defeat. But even then, the party establishment, in picking up the pieces, would have to deal with the issues and fault lines that his candidacy has exposed.
To transform a political party, you need a clear captains hats message, a broad electoral base, and allies within the existing power structure. Trump now has all three of these things. As I've pointed out before , his claim that Washington is broken and can only be fixed by an outsider resonates with many Americans, and not just arch-conservatives. So does his demagoguery about illegal immigrants and the supposed threat that Muslims present. What is perhaps more surprising, at least to Washington-based conservatives, is how many Republicans are also embracing Trump's populist lines on ending free trade, protecting Social Security, and providing basic health care.
Having scored large victories in New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, Trump now looks set to win at least eight of the eleven states that will hold contested Republican votes on Super Tuesday: Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. And he could easily win two more states, Arkansas and Minnesota, that the polls suggest are a bit tighter. The only state that looks to be beyond him is Texas, where surveys show Cruz leading . (Ironically, that could be good news for Trump. If Cruz wins in Texas, he will probably stay in the race, making it harder for anybody to consolidate the non-Trump vote.)
Back on his immigration talking points, Trump detailed a trip wooly hat womens he made earlier that day to Yuma, Arizona, for a briefing on border security - and he casually threatened to "close down our government" to get funding for a wall along the southern border. He again called for getting rid of the filibuster rule requiring more than a simple majority - a change that congressional Republicans have said won't magically lead to the President's agenda passing. And he went after the state's two Republican senators without naming them.Those who still remained filed out of the convention centre, stepping outside and  into what at times into what at times felt like a war zone. |
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