Hillary Clinton, Not Donald Trump, Fulfills the Requirements of "The Buckley Rule"

Jonathan Henderson, on July 20th, 2016

Bill Kristol, the editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, introduced as his thesis the dire observation that “Hillary Clinton may or may not be the all-around worst presidential nominee in the history of the Democratic party.” But after nearly 188 years of providing the electorate “some pretty unappealing characters” — candidates like James Buchanan and Jimmy Carter, George McClellan and George McGovern, whose policies did or actually caused “great harm to the nation” — it is not untrue to acknowledge how the GOP has been stained by candidates like Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon and now Donald Trump, for whom no historically conscious Republican would wisely ignore how many times “it was perhaps as well that the Republican nominee did not prevail in the general election.”

Matt Bai yesterday observed that Trump “doesn’t represent the majority of Republican voters,” nor has he “exposed the true nature of the Republican Party as liberals always portrayed it to be.” However, Trump “does represent the party’s most aggrieved and motivated supporters right now.” And because of these indisputable facts, because he has stifled the better judgment of the majority by applying the traditional Alinsky-esque tactic of mobilizing those marginalized along the Alt Right periphery straddling both parties, Bai is correct: “he’s actually taken the party over and made it reflect his own persona.” ....To Read More....

My Take - You're probably wondering why I posted this.  First of all....Jimmy Carter's presidency over thirty years ago brought us this economic mess with his Community Reinvestment Act and now this world's international mess with his undermining of the Shah of Iran.  His presidency wasn't benign. 

Secondly - I've often said perhaps liberals are smarter than conservatives because in order to make their insane positions seem right and sane - in spite of the disastrous reality going on around them - they must have the ability to do incredible mental gymnastics.  Well ..... it appears there are those who claim to be on the right who taken lessons on mental gymnastics from the left - and if he wasn't dead - I would say from Saul Alinsky himself.