A powerful piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opinion/donald-trump-the-great-betrayer.html?_r=0
On a closely related matter:
Most of the media talking-head reactions that I heard to Mitt Romney’s Thursday speech regarding Donald Trump were stunningly negative. That’s been discouraging. I’ve lost a lot of respect for people like Andrea Tantaros and Laura Ingraham, for instance, over their responses.
I think that Governor Romney’s remarks would have been even more effective had he acknowledged his own comments upon receiving Mr. Trump’s endorsement for the 2012 campaign, and then explained them and distanced himself from them. I regret that he didn’t do this. t think that he could have done it rather easily.
However, with that said: I thought that Mr. Romney’s remarks were superb. He nailed Donald Trump on issue after issue after issue. And most of the negative responses have been irrelevant. Whether you think that Mr. Romney was a suitable spokesman, whether you like him or not — I was, and I do — has absolutely nothing to do with the substance of what he had to say, and it surely doesn’t refute him. Anyway, just in case you didn’t hear Governor Romney’s excellent speech or would like to hear it again, his full remarks are available here:
Posted from Monterey, California
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