Prompted by recent events, including trumps refusal to endorse Paul Ryan, there is talk of an intervention by the graybeards of the Republican Party with Donald Trump. Now, as a practical matter there really cannot be an intervention. Intervention requires a stick for noncompliance with advice. The only stick available is for the republican party to actively oppose Trump and they are not going to do that. Nonetheless, rumor has it that a group of senior Republicans–Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, And Chris Christie–or as they are sometimes known Larry Moe and Curly, will meet with Trump.
Their mission ostensibly is to convince someone with profound narcissistic tendencies who has had a successful business career and rampaged through the republican primaries to change his ways. You have got to be kidding.
One of trumps recent proposals, which I grudgingly approve, is to double up on Hillary Clinton's infrastructure spending program. This puts him completely at odds with Paul Ryan. Were trump to be elected president–and this certainly must be expressed in the subjunctive–we might have a spectacle of the president at odds with his own party over domestic issues. That would provide some interesting theater.
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