It should be clear by now that there is one ruling class in charge of Washington DC.
The Republican Congress has been a disgrace.
And the Republican elites (GOPe) are very frightened they are losing control of the party to the working class Republicans.
According to The Examiner:
“The blue-collar wing of the Republican primary electorate has consolidated around one candidate,” observes Ronald Brownstein. That’s Trump. “The party’s white-collar wing remains fragmented.”
This has the Republican elites at FOX News, in the Beltway and New York City terrified.
They may lose control of the party.
The GOPe would rather see a Hillary Clinton presidency than Donald Trump or Ben Carson in the White House.
The Washington Post reported, via Vox Popoli:
Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands….
The apprehension among some party elites goes beyond electability, according to one Republican strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about the worries.
“We’re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody who frankly isn’t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and temperament to do the job,” this strategist said. “It’s not just that it could be somebody Hillary could destroy electorally, but what if Hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes president?”
Angst about Trump intensified this week after he made two comments that could prove damaging in a general election. First, he explained his opposition to raising the minimum wage by saying “wages are too high.”
Second, he said he would create a federal “deportation force” to remove the more than 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally. “To have a leading candidate propose a new federal police force that is going to flush out illegal immigrants across the nation? That’s very disturbing and concerning to me about where that leads Republicans,” said Dick Wadhams, a former GOP chairman in Colorado, a swing state where Republicans are trying to pick up a Senate seat next year.
