So there you have it: Donald Trump is the nominee of the Republican party. All the ‘nevers’, all the outrages, all the everything. All past. It is an amazing night, just the sheer improbability of it all.
I’ve been saying for months that I thought Trump was all but unstoppable and that the GOP establishment was fooling itself to think they could rob Trump of the nomination in Cleveland. But I will be the first to say that when Trump got in last June it never remotely occurred to me that he could be the Republican nominee. But I will say this: It shouldn’t surprise us at all that this happened. The only surprise is that Donald Trump was the one to do it.
As I argued two months ago, Trump’s dominance is the product of a slow build up of hate and nonsense debt within the Republican party. At some point it had to come due. And now it has.
