Yeah, I think that New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has no intention of letting Trump inject a brain slug into her cerebral cortex:
New Mexico’s Susana Martinez, chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association, did not mince words: She told the crowd of about 60 wealthy GOP backers that, as a Latina, she was offended by Trump’s language about immigrants. Noting her years working as a prosecutor on the Mexico border and now as a border-state governor, Martinez said Trump’s plan to build a wall and force Mexico to pay for it was unrealistic and irresponsible, according to multiple people in attendance.
Not that I really expected her to, because I have a basic respect for Susana Martinez, and I’ve generally found that Trump’s support among politicians typically draws heavily from the ones that I don’t have a basic respect for. It’s downright uncanny. Almost frightening: I mean, if I was the sort to be paranoid I’d be maybe thinking that it was being done deliberately. Which, obviously, it’s not.
Via @PhilipRucker.
One not-so-ill wind (stealing from your previous post) of Donald Trump is that a large number of celebrities have outed themselves as idiots or, at least, not so much Republican as weakly anti-Democrat and hungry for the public stage. There will be a reckoning, eventually, either when Trump loses the nomination or he loses the general, and those folks are going to be casualties.
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If Trump is nominated AND wins the general? Well, first, I’m going to lose a few significant cash bets. And second, I won’t be a Republican any more, so it will be of academic interest to me at best.
Despair does horrible things to people, so I’m trying not to hold grudges, but the respect I’ve lost for many people who I’ve enjoyed for years will be hard to regain. There will be those who later realize they were duped and come around, but there will also be those who just don’t and those who are too invested in the con to extricate themselves. How many remain duped will dictate how much of a reckoning the latter group has.