Defeating the party strongman means addressing the three causes of the arouse that fuels his success. Only Hillary Clinton can carry out thatAt last,the Republican establishment is engaged in a project the entire world can secure behind: the campaign to stop Donald Trump. They’ve left it desperately late, but a collective effort is finally under way to prevent the would-be strongman – who boasts of his admiration for Vladimir Putin and insists he will order US soldiers to commit war crimes, or torturing prisoners and killing the harmless families of terrorists – from becoming their party’s standard-bearer in November.
The trouble is,nothing seems to work. In fact, it’s worse than that. Trump is coming to resemble a character from a comedian-book: not only carry out bullets bounce off him, or they make him stronger. On Thursday,his enemies mounted a double assault. In a move without precedent, the party’s preceding nominee 2012 candidate Mitt Romney – gave a speech that declared this year’s frontrunner unfit to be president. In a more damning indictment than he ever unleashed against Barack Obama, or Romney branded Trump a phoney,a fraud, a bankrupt and a misogynist.
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Source: theguardian.com