I watched Chris Hayes tonight and he had a Republican strategist on who essentially made the same argument: the party deserves Trump and nominating him with the resultant disaster should destroy the existing party and allow the creation ofa credible conservative party to replace it.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich