Trump Leads GOP. Will Paul Ryan Announce Breakaway Third Party?

The vibrancy of American politics is everywhere apparent in the 2016 presidential election.  Republicans went to the polls in each state.  There were lots of candidates to choose from.  When all the campaign dust settled, however, it was Donald Trump who won the GOP nomination, fair and square, decisively.  The voters had spoken.  The same with all previous party nominations in US history.

       The general election now has a clearly defined choice between the left and right, Clinton and Trump.  Those seeking simplicity could ask for no more.  The Clinton-Sanders primary contest in the Democratic Party wouldn’t have mattered who won, since both candidates were on the political left, not unlike a “power struggle” within any one-party system.  Without moderates and centrists holding them back, the Democrats appear strong and unified.

      As the top vote-getter of the Republicans, Donald Trump has the disadvantage of a possible breakaway “third party” headed by Paul Ryan and other incumbents who had aligned themselves with the recently failed presidential campaigns of McCain and Romney.   These folks will never win a national election.  Let them line up behind Eric Cantor.

      The GOP majority that nominated Trump is on the right track for the upcoming years.  His aggressive style of campaigning, and then governing, will be the only resistance able to break through entrenched establishments, both here and around the world.

     In the future, polite discourse will be seen as impotence.  Ask President Duterte of the Philippines.  Freedom must be fought for, not artfully engineered.  Sunnis subjected to a government led by Shia are doomed, aren’t they?

       GOP strength and unity won’t be possible until maverick incumbents leave the party or are forced out.  The last thing the Republican Party needs is a fifth column of wishy-washy politicians, especially those who skipped the party convention, whose goal is really careerism, unwilling to support the hard-won nominee.

      Almost by definition, so-called moderate conservatives lack the ideological commitment needed to defeat a determined left aligned with a media monopoly that can all but rig any election.