Caitlin Mac Neal
is TPM's special projects editor, based in Washington, D.C. She first came to TPM as a newswriter, and has written for HuffPost, the Sunlight Foundation and Slate.
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60 hours to go before we never need hear about Trump speaking at a rally again. Finally, we can count down the hours.
In a couple of days either the world will suffer economic shock or I can turn my television on again.
Uday and Qusay will get the crowd warmed up by leading them in the Horst Wessel.
Appealing to the pasty-white deplorables isn’t going to save you from the tsunami forming and heading your way, HO
Never any policy specifics. For the following reasons:
Trump has none
His followers do not want them
For them, Trump IS the Republican Party**
** as evidenced by the fact that other Republican politicians basically disappeared after Super Tuesday last winter. Much of it was due to Trump’s toxicity Down Ticket…but the main reason was that, NO Republican politician COULD act as surrogate. Does anyone believe that Pence can “replace” Trump?
Surrogates act for a person who shares a party label–along with certain policy applications–with the surrogate. How can a person act for a person who IS the Party?
60 hours to go before we never need hear about Trump speaking at a rally again. Finally, we can count down the hours.
In a couple of days either the world will suffer economic shock or I can turn my television on again.
Uday and Qusay will get the crowd warmed up by leading them in the Horst Wessel.
Appealing to the pasty-white deplorables isn’t going to save you from the tsunami forming and heading your way, HO
Never any policy specifics. For the following reasons:
** as evidenced by the fact that other Republican politicians basically disappeared after Super Tuesday last winter. Much of it was due to Trump’s toxicity Down Ticket…but the main reason was that, NO Republican politician COULD act as surrogate. Does anyone believe that Pence can “replace” Trump?
Surrogates act for a person who shares a party label–along with certain policy applications–with the surrogate. How can a person act for a person who IS the Party?