Now that March Madness is behind us and the people need something else to be hooked on, let’s acknowledge that, while politics usually isn’t that thing, this year’s Republican race for president is the exception. It’s a kind of unscripted performance piece that the New Yorker‘s Adam Gopnik calls, essentially, Dada.
This situation reminds me of the medical process whereby doctors fight an opportunistic infection by introducing fecal matter that carries the antibodies needed to fight it.
Twenty percent of the Republicans said they’d be concerned about a Trump presidency and a full 38 percent said they’d be scared. Thinking about a Trump presidency, more than half of Wisconsin’s Republicans sniffed disaster. Yet Trump’s still the most likely nominee.
