Now that Donald Barnum Trump, Failgunner Ted Cruz and the caravan of benighted shoutycracker GOP candidate wannabes that follow them around have removed any lingering doubt that nothing short of the Bến Tre Option --
'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it'
-- will ever "fix" what is actually wrong with the GOP, the Republican establishment's most obedient and reliable public avatars have all suddenly come down with the same, tragic affliction: Republican Detachment Disorder.
Symptoms include adopting the basic Liberal critique of the Right chapter-and-verse while forgetting to acknowledgment that "Liberals" as such even exist, and pretending that "the Republican establishment" is some mysterious directorate that you barely know which meets in a secret lair far, far away instead of a club which you have been a card-carrying member of for your entire adult life.
Today's spotlight Republican Detachment Disorder sufferer: David Frum.
Maybe the Republican Establishment Can’t Have It AllGiven their failure to take down Donald Trump, is it time for GOP elites to let go of some cherished inward-facing policy priorities?
...Maybe it’s time for the party’s elites to let go of some of their cherished inward-facing policy priorities.
Notice how RDD particularly affects the speech centers of the brain. "[T]he Republican Establishment" instead of "we". "Given their failure" instead of "Given our failure." "[T]he party's elite" instead of "Me and David Brooks and Micheal Gerson and Ross Douthat and the rich fuckers we work for".
Sad, really.
But there is hope!
With your generous support, blogs like this can continue working tirelessly towards the goal of eliminating RDD in our lifetime!
Imagine there's no Donald
It's easy if you try
No Frum below us
Above us, only pie...
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