Whoa. Hate Trump much?
“I most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump...I will vote for the least left-wing opponent to Donald Trump and I want to make a vote to make sure that he has — that he is the biggest loser in presidential history since, I don’t know, Alf Landon or going back further. It’s important that Donald Trump and what he represents — this kind of ethnic quote, ‘conservatism,’ or populism be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape or form. So they have to learn a lesson in the way perhaps Democrats learned from McGovern in ’72. George Will said let’s have him lose in 50 states. Why not Guam, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, too?”
That almost reads like a Marie Antoinette quote: "How dare the commoners think to choose such populist rubbish for a Republican presidential candidate! One might think they thought they own the party! Muffy, grab me another tea while you're in the kitchen please?"
While I am no fan of Trump, I don't take it out on his followers. I think they are genuinely good people looking for an answer to the country's problems, and unfortunately hitching their wagon to the wrong guy. But at least they are trying, instead of looking for solutions in Obama-lite candidates like Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush. But to ask for them to be "punished" so they will learn a lesson? That's just elitist spitefulness.
Mr. Stephens, you need to get out of your editorial office and take a walk on the streets. Clearly, your Wall Street Journal office is at such a lofty height, you aren't getting enough air up there.
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