Trump lays siege to conservatism or whatever it is Republicans believe in. This day, almost every single article on the front page of National Review is about Trump:
-- Enough with the Trump Outrage -- The Trump Virus and Its Symptoms" -- Donald Trump’s Departed Top Adviser Speaks Out -- Rand Paul Continues All-Out Assault on ‘Fake Conservative’ ‘Empty Suit’ Donald Trump -- Donald Trump Is a Hack in a Trucker Hat -- Donald Trump's amnesty.
All of these articles say all sorts of negative and perfectly true things about The Hair, but the overall thrust is a wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments at the prospect of the triumph of the Let's Make a New Deal.
For Trump, conservatism and liberalism are no more different than a pair of suits, he'd just soon wear one as well as the other. The wingers know this and it bugs them -- a lot. Consider this (from the Trump Virus), by Charles C.M. Cooke, a native of Air Strip One:
The Trump virus’s primary effect is twofold: First, it implants in its hosts the unshakable conviction that one of the most execrable clowns in the history of these United States is a hero who deserves to be elevated to the White House; then, having inculcated the conceit, it removes the faculties that are necessary for its removal. Oh. Sorta sounds like Reaganism, but no matter. Trump at least did not co-star with a chimpanzee, or hasn't yet anyway. All I can say is ...