La Opinión (Editorial)
March 21, 2016
The
Republican Party is in serious trouble when, after several primaries
and caucuses, Donald Trump is the front-runner to win the presidential
nomination. Add to this that Senator Ted Cruz,
one of the most hated politicians among his own due to his arrogant,
divisive and extremist postures, has shaped up to be the candidate to
unify the Party and stop the advance of the New York millionaire.
There
are no other Republicans left with a chance to obtain the presidential
who have a positive, moderate position on immigration. In the last few
days,
Trump and Cruz competed to rouse indignation and anger against
immigrants among their followers. Behind them ‒ too far away to be a
dangerous rival ‒ is Governor John Kasich, who reminds everyone of what
the Party used to stand for before nativist populism
and evangelism became political philosophy.
Both
Trump and Cruz have little to do with the GOP candidates of previous
elections, ‒ whether they won or lost ‒ from Ronald Reagan to Mitt
Romney. Reagan
continues to be the role model by today’s conservatives like Cruz, but
they have a distorted image of a ruler who was a pragmatist where it was
needed, as in tax reform, secretly opening up relations with Iran,
negotiating with the Soviet Union’s “evil empire”
and creating comprehensive immigration reform. It is no wonder that
Kasich, a congressman during the Reagan era, is the candidate most akin
to the late President.
The
third option is for the Republican National Convention, meeting in
Cleveland, Ohio, to choose a third candidate is none of the other two
earn the majority
of the votes plus one, from the delegates. Upsetting Trump and Cruz’s
delegates may lead to a chaos with unpredictable long-term effects for
the GOP.
The
fact that the nomination lies between a lying, egomaniacal big mouth
and a religious man who preaches during his political speeches is
nothing but the consequence of the path that Republicans
chose to follow a long time ago. The Tea Party’s populism, the
incongruity of Sarah Palin’s candidacy as vice president, the visceral
hatred against President Obama and the hegemony in Congress of
inflexible Republican factions have paved the way and sowed
the seeds whose fruit Trump and Cruz are picking today.
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