John Nichols: The Stop Trump Movement Is a Joke. Sad!

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from The Nation:


The Stop Trump Movement Is a Joke. Sad!
Donald Trump wins five more states, and the people who are trying to stop him appear to be clueless.

By John Nichols


Republicans who imagine that there is still something happening with the Stop Trump movement would do well to consider these names:

• United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (and 1960 Republican vice-presidential nominee) Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
• Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith
• Former Vice President Richard Nixon
• New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller
• Michigan Governor George Romney
• Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton

These were some of the prominent Republicans who, at different stages in the long 1964 primary process, were advanced by party elites as vehicles for a “Stop Goldwater” movement that sought to avert the nomination of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater at the party’s national convention in San Francisco.

The “Stop Goldwater” movement of 1964—like the Stop Trump movement of 2016—got an immense amount of media attention. And it scored some primary wins (for Lodge as a write-in candidate in New Hampshire and for Rockefeller in Oregon)—along with some credible second-place results (for Smith in Illinois and for Nixon as a write-in candidate in Nebraska), which were spun as hopeful signs.

But the “Stop Goldwater” movement never really had a proper focus—in the form of one clearly defined challenger to the unelectable front-runner—and it never really got traction. The senator from Arizona kept winning where it mattered. He secured the nomination with ease. And then, as predicted, he failed miserably in November. ...................(more)

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-stop-trump-movement-is-a-joke-sad/

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. I, really, never understood the "Stop trump" movement ...

Establishment republicans announce they plan to stop the self-proclaimed "outsider", anti-establishment, "the process is rigged" candidate, trump, by colluding? Doesn't that just prove his point?