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    Trump On Ice

    Trump On Ice
    He probably won’t be the nominee. So how will the GOP get rid of him?

    By Jacob Weisberg
    April 8 2016 1:53 PM

    When my son was in the third grade, I went ice skating with his grammar school at the Wollman Rink in Central Park. On a weekday morning, the children had the place all to themselves. After a spell of skating, they took a break for hot cocoa while the ice was cleaned. But as they got ready to return, a rostrum was pushed out on to the ice. From behind it, an enormous orange-haired man in a double-breasted overcoat began boasting about how he had overcome the incompetents in city government to restore the facility in the 1980s. He seemed unaware that he was lecturing an audience of 8- and 9-year-olds. After a time, the children began to chant, “We want to skate! We want to skate!” Oblivious, Donald Trump continued his monologue.

    Members of the Republican Party are now facing a version of this same problem: How do we get this megalomaniac off the ice? Trump suffered his worst defeat on Tuesday when he lost the Wisconsin primary to Ted Cruz by 13 points. This capped off seven days that began with Trump’s campaign manager being charged with battery for manhandling a female reporter at one of his events in Florida; continued with his saying that “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions; and culminated in his refusal to forswear the use of nuclear weapons in Europe or the Middle East.

    Pundits who underestimated Trump’s potential last autumn have been hesitant to come out and state what has now become apparent: He is probably not going to be the Republican nominee after all. Even if he wins the New York primary next week, and others in the Northeast the following week, it is unlikely that he can gain the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination on the first ballot at the Republican convention. And if he does not win on the first ballot, Trump won’t win it at all—because the GOP doesn’t want to nominate someone who is certain to be clobbered by Hillary Clinton and to drag the Republicans down to defeat in state and congressional races. It turns out there is no convention rule requiring the party to commit suicide simply to serve Trump’s egomania.

    Trump’s reaction to the Republican Party’s late scramble to reject him is much like the one he gave to my son’s schoolmates: Who cares what you want? As the Wisconsin results came in, he was apparently in too deep a sulk, or too purple a rage, to deliver even a pro forma concession speech. Instead, his campaign released an unhinged statement about “Lyin’ Ted Cruz,” calling him “worse than a puppet” and a “Trojan horse” for the party bosses who were “attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump.” Attempting to steal the nomination is despot-speak for daring to challenge him in an election.

    Trump is now a wounded animal, and as hunters know, these can be the most dangerous kind. The Republican Party will have to use care in depriving him of a prize that he thinks belongs to him by rights. The best-case scenario for the GOP would be Trump facing facts and backing out of the primary before the Cleveland convention in mid-July.

    Narcissists like Trump cannot tolerate defeat, because their self-worth is bound up in the idea that they are winners. “My life is about victories,” he told the journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in a jaw-dropping interview. “When I do something, I win.” Faced with defeat he may prefer to walk away, declaring the grapes sour and the game rigged while preserving his belief in himself as someone who never loses. In some ways, an establishment conspiracy to deny him the nomination gives him the exit strategy he sorely needs.

    Trump is now a wounded animal, and as hunters know, these can be the most dangerous kind.

    Even if he goes without a fight, Trump may have changed the GOP forever by exposing the vast gap between white working-class Republican voters and the party leadership. The legacy of his campaign may be a split into two parties, or at least two distinct factions—one nationalistic, nativist, and antitrade; the other internationalist, pro-immigration, and pro-corporate.

    More immediately, Republicans face a possible Samson scenario in which Trump tears the party down around him. This is the course he has implicitly threatened by warning of riots if he arrives in Cleveland with the most delegates and is denied the nomination. It would not take much for him to instigate violence at the convention. The rabble that he has roused seems to crave it as a forbidden form of political expression. A rebellion will be harder to pull off if the party comes together around Cruz on a second ballot, as opposed to a backroom deal to nominate House Speaker Paul Ryan or another candidate who didn’t run in the primaries.

    The only thing worse for the GOP than chaos in Cleveland would be a third-party campaign by a vindictive Trump. If he waits until the convention, it would be hard for him to secure ballot access as an independent in several key states. But even as a write-in candidate, he would draw significant votes from the Republican nominee, ensuring a Democratic victory. If rejection propels Trump to play spoiler for his party, he has the means to do so.

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    Really, Jacob? You dare to write an article criticizing Trump using the Wollman Rink that your children enjoy so much yet wouldn't even have to enjoy without the man you write this article about to criticize him?

    You're an idiot. You're also one of those ingrates who if left to their own devices would starve to death because you'd dare to kill the person who brought you food because .... ummmm ....... because ........ ummmmm ....... because .....................

    Yep, there's just no explanation for a personality so flawed are yours, Jacob. Envy will do that to people. It will mess them up. Then they mess up their children and they mess up theirs and one day we all wake up and realize we have a psychopathic political class that's jealous of blondes, wealth, success and problem-solving. And if ever there was an article that proved that disease, it was your article, Jacob, condemning the man who made the ice rink possible that your own children enjoy.

    So I don't think your son and his class-mates were annoyed at meeting Donald Trump. I believe they were ecstatic to meet the mogul who built the rink. I believe you made up that aspect of your story, Jacob, because as you were standing there having had nothing at all to do with all the fun they were having wanting to skate and being able to do so when the blonde man who did showed up .... you felt small, weak, insignificant and jealous. I'll bet your son and his class mates still talk about the day they met Donald Trump at the Wollman Rink.

    I bet they're voting for him, too. After all, why wouldn't they? No one else in the race did anything for 'em.

    You know what gave you away don't you, Jacob? Yeah, it was calling him "orange-haired". There was nothing at all "orange" about Donald Trump in the 1980's. He was a handsome, debonair, golden boy. The Talk of the Town. The man every man wanted to be like and every woman wanted to marry.

    By the way, Jacob. This election isn't about the Republican Party. It's about the United States. It's about the people selecting candidates who want to fix our country, save our nation and return the American Dream to the American People where it belongs. And so far, Golden Boy, is the only one gets it, is fighting for it and can do it if the voters choose him to do so.

    If you think American Republicans will sit idly by and allow any scheme to interfere with that, then you truly are the idiot you present yourself to be. You're not alone, there are plenty of idiots in our country. Today, the Trump-less national news is driven by the phenomena of a state law in North Carolina spreading to South Carolina discussing the feud over gender identity and bathroom signs and a city ordinance in a town in New Jersey trying to force a homeowner to take down his Trump Flags. These are the types of things that will break apart the Republican Party, not nominating Donald Trump as our candidate for President, whose only interest in this race is to win it, so he can undertake the monumental task to fix our country, save our nation and Make America Great Again.

    So, shame on you, shame, shame, shame on you, Jacob.
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