…just remember this line of his (and I am gobsmacked that he would actually say to a national reporter) (emphasis mine)
The dirty little secret in Republican politics these days is that the longtime pillars of the party — politicians and ex-politicians, major donors and the consultant class — are further removed from the views of the GOP base than at any time in modern memory. They simply do not understand what the heck is happening within and to their party.
John Sununu, a former New Hampshire governor and longtime GOP hand, is one of the few who is willing to admit just how clueless he is about, among other things, the rise of Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Here’s what Sununu told the New York Times’s Jonathan Martin:
I have no feeling for the electorate anymore. It is not responding the way it used to. Their priorities are so different that if I tried to analyze it I’d be making it up.
I kinda knew that a while ago. Heck, most of the Establishment Republicans don’t know what their base is about – but it isn’t that hard to understand. My take on it is that they just don’t understand the angst that is out there. Oh, they KNOW what the priorities are – they simply aren’t listening, and when they try, it’s like they are working diligently to NOT understand the underlying motiviations. Just look at Walt Havenstein and Scott Brown – they were explicitly told – they ignored what they heard. Kelly Ayotte is dong the same thing.
They are stuck in a self-made rut and unable (or unwilling) to change.
