John Batchelor Aug 23 Day After Trump mp3 torrent

What Happens to the Republicans the Day After Trump? @jamestaranto, @opinionjournal.

“…This column rejects the premise that Trump is certain to lose, although we’ll concede that on current evidence he is likelier than not to do so. But lately another question has been preoccupying us: If Trump does lose, can the Republican Party survive?

Will seemed to think so back in April, when he claimed that if Trump loses big, “Republicans working to purge him and his manner from public life will reap the considerable satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party.” Will himself publicly rejected that identity two months later, telling PJMedia he was no longer a Republican. But anyway our question isn’t about whether the Republican “identity” can survive; it’s whether the party can.

A basic function of a political party is to unify behind a nominee, and the GOP has conspicuously failed to do so this year. In the first debate, in August 2015, the most memorable moment not involving Rosie O’Donnell came when moderator Bret Baier called for a show of hands: “Is there anyone on stage . . . who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the Republican party and pledge to not run an independent campaign against that person? . . . Raise your hand now if you won’t make that pledge tonight” (emphasis ours)….”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-trump-loses-can-the-gop-survive-1471975306

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