...about the state of Trumpism during the current Cruz surge. And by "surge" I mean two caucuses, which is still enough to start another rightblogger mood swing and the release of a whole lotta hooey before the next Trump panic hits.
I get a little bit into the case of Breitbart's John Nolte, who is sort of the poster boy for a certain kind of conservative who acts very pro-Trump but always takes care to preserve plausible deniability for the Great Cruz-or-Rubio Correction to come. Rush Limbaugh is the major market version of this -- Conor Friedersdorf has a long overthink on the subject, but Limbaugh's wide stance strikes me as a market decision and nothing any deeper; no point in alienating customers when, ideologically, there's so little at stake. Nolte, who clearly doesn't have to hit any ad-sale targets, is a different story -- I think he's more like a typical Trump yahoo, just chasing the latest groovy hate fuck -- if it turns out he has to get it from Cruz (who's really no less vicious than Trump), that's okay too.
But my favorite part is about the Trump philosophers, who find some entertaining ways to pin Trump on everyone but the guys who are voting for him.
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