The Establishment is About to Embrace Trump Against Cruz
by Rod D. Martin
January 8, 2016
I know, it sounds crazy, doesn't it?
But the Republican Establishment is about to have to choose between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. They won't pick Cruz.
The thing about Establishments is that they can't be without a candidate: if they don't back somebody, there is no way for them to remain the Establishment. I'm certainly not calling Donald Trump Hitler (you may have noticed over the past several months that I have tremendous respect for Trump and for his accomplishments), but to give an admittedly extreme example, much of Germany's Establishment -- and certainly a huge number of its industrialists -- backed Hitler, especially once they realized he was winning.
It's a lot easier for the Republican Establishment -- which actually has called Trump Hitler, and somewhat frequently -- to get behind a winner they don't actually believe is anything like Hitler, when their predicted Trump implosion refuses to come month after month, and when their own candidates a…