You bet the GOP deserves the fallout from Donald Trump. I'm not a fan of Donald Trump, but then again I'm not a fan of the GOP leadership, elected or otherwise.
The GOP leadership learned little to nothing from the rise of the Tea Party. Instead of learning that the Tea Party represented a significant portion of Republican voters and the mood of many Americans, the GOP leadership decided that they would play hardball with these anti establishment upstarts from the boondocks. Who were these novices to tell the pros in the Republican Party anything? After all, the GOP leadership were longtime seasoned professional politicians. They played and continue to play the Party seniority game and we know how that has worked out for all on the political right.
Meanwhile, conservatives and other right of center leaning Republicans had to put up with the likes of John McCain and Mitt Romney, neither of which can be described as anything but liberal Republicans. Conservatives actually outnumber liberals in the GOP, but because liberals are entrenched within the elected and unelected leadership, it is difficult to effect change for conservatives as liberal Republicans have managed to lock so many conservatives out of decision making roles in the party.
Fast forward to the present debacle of the Republican presidential nominating process. It's in a shambles all due to the fact that the GOP leadership refused to acknowledge and embrace the conservative undercurrent in America. For the GOP leadership, it was going to be doing business as usual and if these upstarts didn't like it, they were made to suffer with lesser assignments until they could be brought to heel to the demands of the established GOP leadership to go along to get along.
So now we have many long time establishment Republicans doing a lot of whining in the background about how Donald Trump is about to destroy the Republican Party and its chances of winning the presidency in 2016. And these whiners may be right, but that's not really the issue. A person like Donald Trump would have not had a chance to enter the Republican primary, none, if the Republican Party had looked to the reality before them with the great unrest of the conservative right wing of the party. The liberal establishment of the GOP leadership is responsible for their own undoing of the party. They had the opportunity to change with reality before them, but chose to resist the tide of change.
GOP leadership didn't just ignore conservatives, they went out of their way to crush the hopes and aspirations of all those conservatives for a return to real Republican principles of political leadership. Republican leadership cannot blame Donald Trump for anything. GOP leadership has wrought what we see today in the primary campaign and will reap the whirlwind of a defeat, all because of their long ongoing intransigence to bring conservatives into the GOP leadership and begin to actually practice the principles of Republicanism.
Now for something positive. The Democrats have a lot of problems, not the least of which is their current leader in the polls and the once presumptive candidate to be coronated, Hillary Clinton. Now that Hillary is in free fall, Republicans have a narrow window of opportunity to get behind a real conservative, not some populist despot in training, and put up a real conservative. After Hillary fails, no one can seriously say either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders can win in an America yearning for a smaller government more responsive to Americans and their needs to regain a growing economy to benefit all Americans.
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