Everyone loves a winner. Most of us intrinsically understand and accept this as a fundamental human truth. And yet, through the course of this strangest of years, it has still been rather jarring to see so many respected conservatives pretend that liberal conman Donald Trump is remotely one of us, or even modestly qualified to be president of the United States.
This phenomenon first began when Trump appeared certain to win the GOP nomination, accelerated once that was official, and has now exploded after his shocking victory over a highly unpopular opponent who got at least two million more votes than he did. Even ardent Trump critics like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Nikki Haley, among others, have now turned into basically full-fledged supporters of a guy they all know to be a fraud who shares few, if any, of their previously pronounced principles.
Each of them has slightly different motivations and it is quite possible that they are simply playing a public game in order to navigate their own perilous political waters and/or doing what they think is in the best interest of their party/country. However, the idea that moderate Ohio Governor John Kasich would end up being about the only major Republican to not sell out his principles for short-term political expediency is almost as big a surprise as Trump’s win itself.
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