Reaching the delegate majority he needs to be nominated at the Republican convention remains a “big challenge” for Donald Trump, the New Yorker’s John Cassidy observed Wednesday. But even if Trump falls short, Cassidy doubts he can be denied: Trump will come into the convention with far more delegates than anyone else, and he’ll have won them all over the country.
It’s now a commonplace to observe (here for example) that the Republican Party is getting what it deserved: when Barack Obama was elected president its leaders indulged his demonizers, contentedly riding the tiger that today is swallowing them. But something about flogging this perspective smacks of seeing the street through a Starbucks window. The view’s not so clear, and it’s not all you need to know. Do the protesters who descended on the UIC Pavilion to challenge Trump’s noxious message have anything to do with those Trump supporters otherwise? There are tens of millions of them now. They are a fundamental piece of American reality.
