The #NeverTrump movement is toast.
Again, #NeverTrump is Republicans who refuse to vote for Trump in the general election. It isn't toast unless/until Trump is elected president.
It is toast when Trump becomes the nominee, the same way PUMA was toast when Obama became the nominee.
Unlike with the PUMAs, there are way too many high profile Republicans (both politicians and conservative media types) who've thrown in their lot with #NeverTrump for all of them to backtrack now. There is no going back.
For that matter, I think #NeverTrump will grow among Republicans in Congress after Trump is nominated. As of now, many of them have simply dodged the question as to whether they would endorse him if he's nominated. But once he is nominated, it's no longer a hypothetical. They'll have to choose.
There you go again.
Sometimes it seems like you live on another planet.
Perhaps you are just playing with us, Trump supporters.
It's just not happening in the real world. Can you give an example of anything remotely similar to what you're saying happening anywhere in the world ever?
Absolutely. Michael Foot, a totally unacceptable leader, became leader of the Labour Party in the UK in 1980. In response, numerous Labour politicians left the party to form a new one. Many voters followed them and Foot led Labour to their worst result in 65 years -- in spite of consistently attracting the largest crowds and the most fervent supporters.
In America, George McGovern received the Democratic nomination and numerous Democrats (led by future President Jimmy Carter) fled for Nixon. Eight years earlier, Barry Goldwater received the Republican nomination and the same thing happened.
This happens all the time, Ljube. Trump supporters are not playing, but neither are Trump opponents, as you seem bizarrely convinced is the case.
A common thread among Trumpeters and Sandernistas is that all this is
TOTALLY UNPRECEDENTED AND HISTORIC, when really it happens fairly regularly. People who can't be bothered to learn registration deadlines or delegate selection rules can't be expected to know who McGovern and Goldwater were.
