Quote:This Really Is a Historic Game of Chicken
Trump can't survive without the Republican Party. They can't survive with Trump.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
JUN 15, 2016
In today's installment of Your Day In Chaos, we find our hero, a vulgar talking yam, in Atlanta, yelling "Charge!" turning around and seeing nothing but empty air. And, if Tiger Beat On The Potomac is to be believed, he appears to be miffed.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee during an Atlanta rally threatened to win in November with or without the support of his colleagues, who have grown weary after months of being forced to respond to the businessman's bombastic proposals and controversial off-the-cuff statements.
"You know, the Republicans, honestly, folks, our leaders — our leaders have to get tougher," Trump said Wednesday. "This is too tough to do it alone. But you know what? I think I'm gonna be forced to. I think I'm going to be forced to." Our leaders have to get a lot tougher, and be quiet. Just please be quiet," Trump told his supporters.
"Don't talk. Please, be quiet. Just be quiet, to the leaders, because they have to get tougher, they have to get sharper, they have to get smarter, and we have to have our Republicans either stick together or let me just do it by myself."
Trump stressed that he would do "very well" by himself. "A lot of people thought I should do that anyway," he said. "But I'll just do it very nicely by myself. I think you're gonna have a very good result. I think we'll be very happy. I'll run as a Republican." "You know, the endorsement thing, I've gotten — by the way, I've gotten tremendous endorsements, but if I don't get them that's OK," Trump said. "We're gonna run. We're gonna win. And here's what we're going to do when we win: We're gonna make our country so great again."
Not just great, but so great! Well, I'm convinced.
Apparently, this hurling of the juicebox was prompted by the fact that many influential Republicans have been tripping over themselves lately running for the lifeboats. Take, for example, Senator John Cornyn (R-Terredene), who announced today that he simply wouldn't be talking about his party's presidential nominee until after the election's over.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn on Tuesday went a step further than McConnell, telling POLITICO he will no longer talk about Trump until after Nov. 8.
In the mad logic of the 2016 campaign, these may be the two most honest courses of action for both men to take.
If He, Trump's candidacy really is the insurgency that so many suckers think it is, then he should be gleeful about telling establishment Republican pols to pound sand.
And if Republicans like Cornyn really want to behave like a party establishment, they should cut him loose. But He, Trump can't live without universal sycophantic adulation, and the Republican Party can't live without the forces He, Trump has ignited and the followers that He, Trump has marshaled.
They have together managed to split honesty from sincerity. That's quite a damn feat, if you think about it.
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