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From: zax5/12/2016 10:12:12 AM
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Trump’s self-destruction begins early
By Jennifer Rubin May 9

washingtonpost.com

We suspect that when he gave Donald Trump the opportunity to unify the party, Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) knew Trump wouldn’t be able to do it. Someone as narcissistic and as devoid of conservative principles as Trump couldn’t become a conciliatory, minimally coherent Republican. Still, he probably did not expect Trump to blow it so quickly and vividly.

In the space of a few days, Trump’s campaign chief, Paul Manafort, told movement conservatives that the agenda of the GOP is now whatever Trump believes (which varies from day to day). Trump declared that “don’t forget, this is called the Republican Party. It’s not called the Conservative Party.” This is a man with no grounding in any ideology, telling the party that being Republican means whatever he wants it to mean. Great way to chase those people for whom politics is about something other than winning and losing, huh?

Trump reversed himself on the minimum wage and now vows to raise taxes. Those Republicans who said the party had to fall in line behind him or we’d have tax increases, job-killing minimum wage hikes and socialized medicine — all things he said at one time or another that he wants –need a new excuse to back the billionaire mogul. Having supported him based on the hope his tax plan would last a millisecond after his nomination, leaders of anti-tax groups — or really any group with “conservative” in its name — look like chumps.

</snip> Rest here: washingtonpost.com
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