Everybody Gets Messy

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Here’s another example of the Trump pattern, how his candidacy has this uncanny ability to trigger explosions in virtually every part of the conservative ecosystem it touches.

Now Bristol Palin, famed abstinence advocate and unwed mother, is attacking Erick Erickson for attacking Donald Trump for Trump’s attacks on women. Why does she care? Because she’s still steamed that Erickson didn’t seem to care about sexism when it was aimed at her mother, half-term Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin.

Did we know there was a Bristol Palin – Erick Erickson feud? I do not think we did. I’m not sure there was one. But now there is? How did Sarah Palin get involved? No need to answer: Donald Trump. Everybody gets messy. His presence pulls everybody down three rungs and gets everyone off message and fighting. If the Democrats invested every dime they had to engineer the perfect agent provocateur to infiltrate and unhinge the GOP they could not come up with anything like this.

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