Here's the One Thing You Need To Know About Mitt Romney's Evisceration of Trump Right message, wrong messenger.
Mitt Romney, a man who despite losing two elections still looks rather presidential (even when he's boxing Evander Holyfield), tore into Donald Trump this morning. Romney's speech was truly unprecedented in its intensity from one former Republican nominee to the same party's current frontrunner for the White House.
Romney labeled Trump a "phony" and a "fraud" and said "his promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University."
By Michael Sebastian
Mar 3, 2016
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He also warned the American public that Trump would lead America towards totalitarianism.
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Romney's words were a warning to the public and an attempt to derail the Trump train, but here's really the only thing you need to know about his efforts:
Romney bears some of the responsibility for Trump in the first place. He's one ingredient in the toxic chowder that is Trump's candidacy. Romney is a nice guy, sure, but he was a milquetoast candidate, who, with one hot mic slip up, cast aside 47 percent of the American public. Although Romney was mostly an honest politician—unlike Trump—his words carried the sort of rehearsed, focus-group tested lines that today's electorate has come to loathe. If anything, Romney's speech today only reinforced and fired up Trump's base. Other observers agreed:
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Perhaps the only establishment politician who can take down Trump now is someone now inside the circus tent
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Esquire is a liberal rag. I still like Trump.