When future historians check our etched rock records for clues as to how civilization collapsed, let those records show that a decent percentage of blame could be traced personally to that most hackish of political hacks, Reince Preibus.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Priebus how Trump had prepared for Monday night’s face-off at Hofstra University in Long Island.
“Studying, preparing, going through hypotheticals and what scenarios might come up, but he's very comfortable,” the RNC chair replied. “He did a great job in our primary debates. He's also been through, what, 14 seasons, season finales. He will be prepared. He's always showed up for the big dance, and he will be prepared and he'll be ready to go tonight.”
He's been through 14 taped season finales of a ridiculous reality television show, says Reince, and he sure wiped the floor with all the incompetent not-racist-enoughs we propped up against him in the food fights that passed for our own ridiculous debate nights. That's good enough, right? He'll be fine.
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Donald Trump being ready for the presidency because of his status as reality television show star has long been a long-running joke. It's now being deployed as a serious argument by the head of the Republican National Committee as a reason why the belligerent know-nothing oaf that ascended to the top of their party is not, in fact, the cartoonish insult of self-governance that anyone who is not themselves an idiot or an anarchist believes it to be.
He filmed a reality show, you see. And if they were able to edit together something usable from that, surely he deserves to stand up there and be considered presidential material. What the hell else would we base these things on, if not on who had the best reality shows?
At any point, the Republican Party could have said "enough." They could have drawn a line and said beyond this point, we cannot go. They didn't. They wouldn't. And there's apparently nothing left that would inspire such an action—the jokes are real now. This is what they're going with.