{"id":83052,"date":"2015-12-24T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83052"},"modified":"2015-12-24T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:18:03","slug":"jonathan-allen-face-it-trumps-the-true-gop-favorite-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83052","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Allen: Face it: Trump\u2019s the true GOP favorite now"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Daily News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something the chattering classes along the Acela Corridor don\u2019t want to say about Donald Trump: He\u2019s the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

For the Republican Party\u2019s conservative \u2014 in more ways than one \u2014 establishment, it\u2019s as if admitting that will make it come true. So instead, they squabble over who the \u201creal\u201d front-runner is, whether it\u2019s Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. Perhaps, the parlor wisdom holds, a dark horse like Chris Christie can overtake the field at the New Hampshire turn.<\/p>\n

For the first few months, the Trump deniers \u2014 loud on national television, insistent on Twitter and ever-present in the nation\u2019s leading print and digital outlets \u2014 could be called wishful thinkers. With the primaries just around the corner, as many otherwise smart political analysts keep waiting, aching, for conventional order to be restored, it\u2019s time to call them what they are: delusional…<\/p>\n

The funniest, saddest theory out there is that Trump \u2014 who has been at this more than six months, shows no sign of tiring and clearly craves the limelight, and power \u2014 could get so bored of campaigning one day that he exits the race as abruptly as he took command of it. Yeah, and he could replace Tom Brady at quarterback in the Patriots\u2019 first playoff game.<\/p>\n

Instead of continuing to fool themselves, Republican pundits should school themselves in what is going on here. Like the last two Republicans who seized the White House from Democratic control, Trump paints in bold, bright colors. He exudes an almost impossible confidence. And he\u2019s speaking directly to deep anxieties and resentments among GOP voters.<\/p>\n

That has proven to be a potent combination among an anxious, Obama-weary electorate.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understandable that Republican elites are mortified. A guy they can\u2019t control is taking dead aim at many party orthodoxies, and profiting in the process. A few months ago, GOP insiders regarded a brokered convention as a nightmare. Now, to many, it\u2019s more like a daydream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Daily News: There\u2019s something the chattering classes along the Acela Corridor don\u2019t want to say about Donald Trump: He\u2019s the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination. For the Republican Party\u2019s conservative \u2014 in more ways than … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83053,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83052\/revisions\/83053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}