Still, Chait is asking for a serious mental commitment here-bipartisan rooting for Trump, at least until the primaries are over. “Trump is the only one holding a match.” What’s more, even a Trump administration, Chait added, “would probably wind up doing less harm to the country than a Marco Rubio or a Cruz presidency.” “The Republican Party in its current incarnation needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt anew,” Chait wrote. This week, Jonathan Chait argued in New York that even liberals should hope for Trump to be the Republican nominee, a wish that looks ever likelier to be granted. It's not just defiant Republicans that see virtues in Trump. Now it’s back to the rebellion of Donald Trump, which the party establishment-still enamored with the policies of its last president, minus that indiscretion in Iraq-continues to view as a fatal disorder. After the Edsel-like rollout of Jeb, Rubio seemed so promising, so good-natured and pliable. It’s been a bitter week for the establishment wing of the Republican Party. But the Rubio Moment (which for a while, as the writer Michael Brendan Dougherty pointed out, was every moment) appears to have been withstood. Party programmers will huddle around him to iron out the bugs, recompile, give him a few kicks, and hope Rubio.exe runs smoothly from here on out. Rubio, who finished fifth last night, will stick around for now. But after causing the circuitry of Marco Rubio to misfire in front of debate watchers everywhere on Saturday, he deserves a nation’s thanks and a full presidential pardon. After last night's New Hampshire primary, we’ll likely be losing Chris Christie, who heads home to New Jersey and to possible legal reckonings.
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