How will Trump handle losing the election?

How Donald Trump Outsmarted George Will
On April 29, George F. Will, the high priest of the conservative temple, formally excommunicated Donald Trump from the movement. Will’s judgment was as sweeping as it was certain. Should Trump win the nomination, a still-uncertain prospect at the time, conservatives must work to deny him the presidency, Will declared, ideally via a 50-state landslide. Will expressed his hope that a leading conservative, like Nebraska senator Ben Sasse, would lead a Republican party in exile through the election to defeat Trump. And then, afterward, Will pronounced any Republicans who had supported Trump would be “ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.”

It’s instructive to read Will’s column, brimming with ideological confidence and fervor, six months later. None of his expectations has remotely come to pass. There is no army following behind him. The notion that the anti-Trump wing could cast the pro-Trump wing out of the party is preposterous. The column today currently has less less resemblance to the pronouncement of a conservative pope than to Will Ferrell in Old School, proclaiming that everybody is going streaking...

Why did Republican primary voters forgive Trump’s heresies? Because the power of the charge of un-conservative behavior is the implication that you are not really on our side. Trump proved to the party base he was one of them through his racism, sexism, and blunt nationalism. Those impulses are the essence of conservative political identity at the voting level. Political scientist Matt Grossman has a new poll of Michigan statewide voters. Look at the responses to the question of whether generations of slavery and discrimination have made it harder for African-Americans to rise, sorted by presidential-vote preference. People who like Clinton are the ones who acknowledge that black people face structural disadvantages, and people who like Trump are the ones who deny it:

The conservative intelligentsia is right about one thing.

Trump is not a committed ideologue but a grifter who decided to use their voters for his own ends.

Trump grasped from the outset that the birther issue gave him a connection to the Republican electorate.

The conservative intelligentsia ignored the birthers, the freaks, and the transparent racists because they were embarrassing. It was far more flattering and heroic to imagine the whole thing was about the Constitution.

The con artist swindled the perfect mark.

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Why did Republican primary voters forgive Trump’s heresies? Because the power of the charge of un-conservative behavior is the implication that you are not really on our side. Trump proved to the party base he was one of them through his racism, sexism, and blunt nationalism. Those impulses are the essence of conservative political identity at the voting level. Political scientist Matt Grossman has a new poll of Michigan statewide voters. Look at the responses to the question of whether generations of slavery and discrimination have made it harder for African-Americans to rise, sorted by presidential-vote preference. People who like Clinton are the ones who acknowledge that black people face structural disadvantages, and people who like Trump are the ones who deny it:

that pretty much covers off what I hear/see of America. I kind of hate having to talk to some of my American colleagues these days. I have to really restrain myself from asking them why they are not too embarrassed to say the racist/sexist things they do. There is a noticeable change from 15/10/5/2 years ago. They really think it's ok to be known for their racist/sexist views.

Who are these people that you are hanging with? I live among the very Americans that you are talking about and we are not walking around spouting off racist and sexist stuff all day.

KKK leaders were always quite civil and polite in the daytime hours. They were dignified pillars of the community.

Racists are kept in check by political correctness, which is why they're always sounding off against political correctness. They love Trump because he can be open about his feelings on things.

Your support of a known sexist and racist without other redeeming value would put you in that group. He has also scammed people.

They also wear pointy hats that covers their faces. They come out at the dark of night to burn down black churches.