It’s been obvious for some time that the Republican establishment was likely going to have to make a choice between the lesser of two evils. The GOP “establishment lane” has had a pile up right at the start and nobody can get through it. So the “outsider lane” is the only one available. They are coming very close to having to decide which horse to jump on and by the looks of it, they’ve decided that if they have to make this unpalatable choice in order to have a chance to win the election, they will choose … Donald Trump.
Yesterday Salon’s Elias Isquith wrote about this, and cited a Washington Post story that had the Republican fatcat donors all starting to sniff around Trump looking for ways to curry favor now that their favorites like Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush seem to have cratered. We all know Trump cannot be bought. He says so every day. Greed is simply not part of his personal character. Even more importantly, Trump has no ego so it’s very unlikely he will be influenced by flattery and sweet talk from his wealthy peers. Nonetheless they seem to think it will be worth their while to get access to him. Go figure.