‘This Is Going to End Badly’: Erick Erickson Posts Sad Twitter Rant on Trump’s Inevitable Defeat

[DonViejo]

by Ken Meyer | 12:08 pm, August 3rd, 2016 149


Former Redstate Editor-in-Chief Erick Erickson went on a lengthy Twitter rant on Wednesday morning, where he seemed to get extremely morose as he gave his thoughts about what will happen after Donald Trump‘s certain fall.

Erickson has been a prominent #NeverTrumper for months, and he’s made it quite clear in the past that Trump becoming the GOP nominee won’t change that. Trump’s campaign has been going through an especially–troublesome time over the past few days, and Erickson took to Twitter to muse on what kind of aftermath conservative America will face when the election is over.

The highlights of the rant touched a multitude of subjects: from conservatives promising to back Hillary Clinton, to the frustrations of GOP leaders, to the splintering of the Republican Party:

-snip- Erickson's lengthy Twitter rant

http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-is-going-to-end-badly-erick-erickson-posts-sad-twitter-rant-on-trumps-inevitable-defeat/

[geek tragedy]

1. All entirely self-inflicted.

No one forced them to pander to white supremacism, xenophobia, misogyny, and the cray-cray.

No one forced them to nominate a lunatic.

No one forced them to meekly roll over for that lunatic.

[longship]

3. All unforced errors. All of them!

And they amazingly vetted a freaking 17 candidates to get here!

Madness! Madness!

[liberal N proud]

2. Demise of their own creation

[Cary]

4. "Conservatives," Pfeh

They have rationalized their losses with "we aren't 'conservative' enough" since... forever. Now what are they?

Can they go to that well again? I don't think so. Trump isn't "conservative" and yet he's moved into a space that "conservatives" created. He is imploding now, because. No need to explain that, right? So what comes next? The people who love this guy, mostly because he has spoken to their racial anxieties, what is next for them? Will they settle into that tired "limited government" crap and other facile "conservative" bumper sticker slogans?

I don't think so. So they're just screwed pretty much because every part of their coalition has retreated to their own extreme.

Does that make sense? It's actually hurting my brain to try to make any sense of their mess.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Everything that's gone wrong for the GOPers has been an own-goal.

Right now all Hillary and the Dems have to do is sit back and watch Trump and his enablers step on the rakes he left in the yard.

[Orsino]

6. He has to stay in the race to be defeated.

I don't think he's got any fight in him.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. I keep hearing that

but I always remember his colossal ego. I know he's been making noises about a "rigged election," but I really think his pride won't let him quit.

[Orsino]

9. Yeah, he's into clown slap-fights on Twitter...

...but a political rivalry that keeps forcing him to think and talk in political terms? He not only has no stomach for it--he's got no attention span for it.

A year ago I said that he'd quit when it turned into work. I've been wrong for a long time, but we can see him losing control. It's become work, and he has no work ethic, for which he has exactly the wrong opponent.

[kestrel91316]

7. Oh, how tragic.