On Romney's CPAC speech

I don't really have a horse in this race. I'm a Paul supporter, and in November, I'll vote for Gary Johnson. But the furor over Mitt Romney's comments at CPAC today show that the political world is still orbiting the stupidity black hole that has Trump at its center, so I figure it's worth trying to rescue a few people who might have gotten sucked in. 

The fact that Romney accepted Trump's endorsement at a point in time when Trump hadn't outed himself as a pandering racist xenophobe and hate-spewing misogynist says almost nothing about Romney; politicians accept endorsements from rich businessmen all the time. Romney didn't embrace Trump '16's platform in '12, he accepted an endorsement. Get over it. 

What you're missing is this: the fact that Trump endorsed Romney in '12 and now disavows what Romney stood for speaks VOLUMES about Trump; it reveals him as an utterly craven political opportunist. Trump is full of s**t. He's running against what he's always endorsed: centrist pro-business politicians of either party. Consider: besides endorsing Romney, he's bragged in the past about his close friendship with the Clintons. 

The idea that Trump is fighting the "GOP establishment" is so stupid, it's like I said above: a stupidity black hole: it actually destroys order and information and truth in the process of being stupid. Get it through your heads: TRUMP IS THE ESTABLISHMENT. The "establishment" in the US is socially left-leaning, centrist, and hawkish. It includes members of both parties, and almost totally embraces what used to be called the "main-stream media" and the entertainment industry. That's TRUMP. It's been Trump all his life. It's reflected in Christie's embrace of him; (Christie is basically a mashup of Trump and Tony Soprano.)

Similarly, the idea that Trump represents a disruption of the "status quo" in the GOP is so absurd that we probably need a new word to describe it. Trump is the status quo. The only "innovation" in Trump's campaign is that he's found the secret to co-opting the jingoistic racist xenophobes, reaping the harvest that the media and the left side the of the establishment have spent the past seven years sowing. And that's not even a real innovation; it's been done before several times in US history, and better, by the likes of Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and others.

I don't particularly like Mitt Romney, and I didn't vote for him. He probably does represent part of the political class that some people are pissed off at lately, and he probably deserves some of that. But the criticism coming from the Trump camp is ludicrous.