Where are the Big Money Boyz?
by digby
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Byron York delves into the interesting question of why the big money donors aren't going after Trump. They clearly think he's a dangerous clown but nobody's actually stepped up:
Serious talk about organizing a major anti-Trump offensive began last October, when it became clear the "Summer of Trump" was going to last into the fall. Some preliminary work, like research into Trump's business dealings in Atlantic City, was done. But nobody followed through on the talk. And Trump's popularity increased.
While Trump rose, the opposition splintered. "All the megadonors have somebody who they look to as their political guru," said one GOP insider in an interview Sunday. "Some of them listen to Ken Mehlman, maybe Karl Rove, maybe Wayne Berman, Steve Schmidt. And that group is divided on who they want." The size of the GOP field has led multiple establishment candidates to fight among themselves, and mostly not take aim at Trump. "All the establishment candidates and their establishment donors are focused on each other and who's going to be the premier establishment candidate," added another GOP insider.Serious talk about organizing a major anti-Trump offensive began last October, when it became clear the "Summer of Trump" was going to last into the fall. Some preliminary work, like research into Trump's business dealings in Atlantic City, was done. But nobody followed through on the talk. And Trump's popularity increased.
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[P]erhaps the most fundamental reason the anti-Trump talk of October has not resulted in an anti-Trump campaign in January is that, despite Trump's present strength, most establishment insiders simply don't believe he can make it through the party nominating process. "Donors don't think he's going to be the nominee," said one of the anonymous insiders quoted above. "I don't."
And apparently they also don't care how much damage Trump is doing to their party and fail to understand how their unwillingness to confront it makes people understandably less than impressed with their whole conservative project.These men and one woman are out there every day making bellicose bloodthirsty threats against half the world and yet they either bow and scrape to Donald Trump or ineffectually bat at him like 4 year olds. It's pathetic.
But this is the donor class in all its glory isn't it? Relying on the stale and moldy likes of Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman to tell them what to do. Or believing they know better and don't have a clue. All these rich guys look in the mirror every day and see a cross between Jesus Christ and Albert Einstein staring back at them and it's really just some guy who got lucky.
I think I agree with Trump on this. They're all a bunch of losers.
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