Recently Bill Kristol asserted that there will be an impressive independent candidate with a strong team and a real chance. Of course this is simply a ridiculous fantasy on Kristol's part. The impressive candidate will of course be the typical loathsome neocon the GOP loves to trot out for its much abused voters. The same sort of candidate that already flat-lined with voters this primary season. The fantasy candidate's real chance will be to secure enough third place finishes to ensure a victory for Hillary Clinton which, of course, is what Kristol actually prefers. Kristol's attitude is nothing out of the ordinary with the GOP establishment which adheres to the doctrine that the Democrats are the opposition, conservatives and the Right are the enemy.
Rather than dredge up inane fantasies of neocon days of yore perhaps Kristol ought to dredge up some introspection for once in his life. Trump is the nominee because of people like Bill Kristol. The dogmatically slavish devotion of the GOP elites to globalist ideologies in both economics and immigration have played a significant role in the deplorable state of the working class. A demographic that at least one National Review writer believes should die out. NR seems to have the full article behind their log-in/subscribe shield now, and for good reason I suppose. Basically the writer, one Kevin Williamson, argued that large economic forces like outsourcing and mass immigration had little or nothing to do with the decline of the American working class and that they are all just oxy-abusing hillbillies with broken families who live in dried up small towns. Nothing like breaking someone's legs and then telling them it is their fault they can't walk. If only they could all become rent-seeking cosmopolitan urbanites toadying up to the establishment. Enough of that sort of abuse and you have to figure those people will stop liking you. Unfortunately for the Bill Kristol's of the world the white working class makes up a good portion of the GOP's electoral base especially in the South which the GOP cannot afford to lose. And they finally stopped liking the GOP establishment.
I certainly am not a fan of Donald Trump; however, he is exposing something very important. He is revealing that the GOP hates its base. It despises them both regionally and culturally and nearly as vehemently as any Leftist. The mask has slipped a bit. Logically, voting for a formerly leftist New Yorker who isn't any sort of reliable conservative and may not even be a reliable populist seems a bit stupid for Rightists of any stripe. It may very well be stupid, but it is probably best to see it as people with no real power lashing out and pushing back in the only way they can. And they are lashing out at the right people too. It may be in the wrong hero, but the targets are correct.
Until the GOP establishment realizes that the first principle of politics is prudence and not democracy or capitalism or any other ideology they should continue to expect blowback from the people their ideological infatuations trample over. In short, Donald Trump is your fault Bill Kristol.
