Comment to post at TCTH about Trump meeting with K Street Republican swamp dwellers Ryan, McCarthy, McConnell and Cornyn:
6/6/17, "President Trump Meets With Key House and Senate Lobbying Recipients," tcth, sundance (scroll down)
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Added: "Of all the emperors whom Trump has revealed to have few or no clothes, none have been more conspicuous or consequential than the GOP elites:"
Above, D. Koch, Paul Ryan, C. Koch, McConnell, and Rupert Murdoch
Image above from 3/20/2016, "There Was no Republican Establishment After All," Frank Rich, NY Magazine
"Since last summer (2015), Trump...has embarrassed almost the entire American political ecosystem — pollsters, pundits, veteran political operatives and the talking heads who parrot their wisdom, focus-group entrepreneurs, super-pac strategists, number-crunching poll analysts at FiveThirtyEight and its imitators. But of all the emperors whom Trump has revealed to have few or no clothes, none have been more conspicuous or consequential than the GOP elites.. He has smashed the illusion, one I harbored as much as anyone, that there’s still some center-right GOP Establishment that could restore old-school Republican order if the crazies took over the asylum.
The reverse has happened instead. The Establishment’s feckless effort to derail Trump has, if anything, sparked a pro-Trump backlash among the GOP’s base."...
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