Losers like Bill Kristol and dough boy Erick Erickson haven’t come up with their #NeverTrump candidate like they claimed they would have by the convention. National Review hack David French didn’t want it, so they are shit out of luck. That doesn’t mean the #NeverTrump losers will grow up. They are planning a demonstration and possibly do a ‘walk-out’ to further held Hillary Clinton.
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Good luck getting back into the convention through the security lines! Dane Waters, the co-founder of a group demanding that delegates have the right to unbind themselves from the results of the primaries, tells MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff that Delegates Unbound plan to stage protests from the convention floor next week in Cleveland. They may even walk out of the convention, although that sounds like much of the rest of the Trump opposition planning — a gesture without a real plan:
“There will be some form of protest,” Waters tells Soboroff, which isn’t exactly a surprise. Some of the delegates may be angry that the DU group failed to convince very many people on the Rules Committee to change course with just days to go before the convention. The question is — how many, and how many still want to press the issue? Waters blames “intimidation” by RNC leadership for quashing the unbinding effort, but nothing over the past few weeks suggested that their movement was anything but a small minority.
This wasn’t “an assault to democracy.” If anything, it’s been a contest between direct democracy in the form of the primaries and the authority of representative democracy — and Waters lands on the latter part of that tension. Respect for “democracy” would require accepting the results of the primaries and the pre-established rules; Waters and his team are arguing for rejection of direct democracy and the use of representation to change the course of the cycle.
That would be legitimate if there was a majority of representatives (delegates) in favor of dumping the rules and unbinding the delegates to undo the results of the primary, but that’s what the Rules Committee considered as its own form of representative democracy. They lost on the same basis on which they want to claim legitimacy.