John Nichols: The Stop Trump Movement Is a Joke. Sad!
from The Nation:
The Stop Trump Movement Is a Joke. Sad!
Donald Trump wins five more states, and the people who are trying to stop him appear to be clueless.
By John Nichols
Republicans who imagine that there is still something happening with the Stop Trump movement would do well to consider these names:
United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (and 1960 Republican vice-presidential nominee) Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Former Vice President Richard Nixon
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller
Michigan Governor George Romney
Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton
These were some of the prominent Republicans who, at different stages in the long 1964 primary process, were advanced by party elites as vehicles for a Stop Goldwater movement that sought to avert the nomination of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater at the partys national convention in San Francisco.
The Stop Goldwater movement of 1964like the Stop Trump movement of 2016got an immense amount of media attention. And it scored some primary wins (for Lodge as a write-in candidate in New Hampshire and for Rockefeller in Oregon)along with some credible second-place results (for Smith in Illinois and for Nixon as a write-in candidate in Nebraska), which were spun as hopeful signs.
But the Stop Goldwater movement never really had a proper focusin the form of one clearly defined challenger to the unelectable front-runnerand it never really got traction. The senator from Arizona kept winning where it mattered. He secured the nomination with ease. And then, as predicted, he failed miserably in November. ...................(more)
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