Let's All Pretend Trump Hasn't Bulldozed the Sad R

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Let's All Pretend Trump Hasn't Bulldozed the Sad Remnants of the Republican Establishment

And treat his big meeting with Paul Ryan seriously.


BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 12, 2016

The big noise in Washington Thursday was that He, Trump was going to meet with Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin and first runner-up in our most recent vice presidential pageant.

This is supposed to be the first sign of détente between He, Trump and what we laughingly refer to as The Republican Establishment these days.

Everyone's going to get together and pretend that He, Trump hasn't completely bulldozed the sad remnants of the institutional Republican Party.

He, Trump has condescended to play along with this farce, largely because some of the dimmer bulbs in the majority chandelier have thrown themselves body and soul into a remarkable public display of Stockholm Syndrome, at least according to CNN.

Despite lawmakers' deep concerns about Trump, many said they were backing him because Democrat Hillary Clinton would be worse in the White House. "Even if Donald Trump brings chaos to this party, that's better than Hillary Clinton bringing destruction to this Constitution," Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks said.

'Hyperbole factories' add a third shift every time a GOPER opens his mouth!

Make no mistake. It is only He, Trump who is dealing from strength here. He has crushed the royal enemy, driven it before him, and now listens to lamentations of their women.

Ryan, because he is about half the politician he's given credit for being, tripped over himself by declining publicly to endorse Trump, as though his endorsement is in any way valuable to someone running the kind of campaign that He, Trump is running.

This, naturally, sent the flying monkeys into orbit, and Ryan suddenly woke up and found himself staggering through the smoking ruins of Cantorland. Not that they will have any influence over the presumptive nominee, either.

Let us be very clear.

He, Trump is interested in winning. Period.

He doesn't care if the institutional Republican Party exists beyond election day. He doesn't care if half the House Republicans get voted out of office in favor of tropical fish.

He is not invested at all in Paul Ryan's political future, but Ryan knows that, if a Trump campaign craters the party in November, he will find himself nothing more than the most influential corpse in the morgue.

This was not a meeting about "unity." It was a meeting about how to make the best of things when you suddenly wake up and discover that all the power in your political universe rests with a vulgar talking yam.

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