Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell greeted President Obama’s election with the statement they would do everything possible to see that he would be a one-term president by keeping his successes to a minimum and in many respects, they succeeded.
The American people, however, are angry that so few appointments and bills made it through the congressional blocking process during the past seven years, so they are now looking for candidates who are not career politicians. That opened the door for Donald Trump, who is now far ahead in popularity of the other Republican candidates despite having ignored the usual party rules of playing nice. The result is he has alienated the Hispanic bloc as well as many of the women voters and this alone could cost him the election should he be selected to run.
At the same time, his threat to run as a third-party candidate if he isn’t treated right, even though he pledged not to, terrifies the party because that would split voters even more, again potentially costing them the election. It is an interesting dilemma, but it somehow seems appropriate the Republican Party is now reaping what it so vigorously planted.
