Glenn Beck Plots with NeverTrump Leader to Elect Romney


Glenn Beck and Erick Erikson got together this week to discuss how they could send a “conservative” to the White House that isn’t named Donald Trump. Their latest scheme circumvents the electorate almost entirely. So much for democracy, then.

The theory, as explained by Beck’s co-host Stu Burguiere, is to run a “conservative” candidate in two to three deep red states “where Hillary Clinton has no chance of winning,” so that Trump can’t get to the 270 electoral vote threshold needed to win, thereby throwing the election to the House of Representatives, assuming that Hillary doesn’t win outright.

Their dream “conservative” candidate seems to be Mitt Romney — but only because “Paul Ryan is the Speaker of the House,” and therefore unavailable. They never do get around to accounting for the widespread unpopularity of both these men across the GOP base. But then their plan isn’t genuinely rooted in democracy anyway.

Erickson, who apparently fancies himself “a student of American politics” — one can imagine the F’s on that report card at this point — claims, “It would be fun to do something like that.” Yes, surely all self-professed Constitutional conservatives believe subverting the will of the voters and allowing Washington insiders to pick the American President is “fun.” It’s a shame the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, issued in 2013 wasn’t in time to catch Trump Derangement Disorder as the mental health challenge it’s clearly become for a select few talking airheads on the right.

As for their elitist scheme, “I like the idea, frankly, I would probably broaden it,” says Erickson, “because at this point I think the Republicans need to have their nose rubbed in Trump’s nomination in finding a Republican who beats Trump in more states than just those three.”

“I would relish the idea,” Erickson adds.

At least this isn’t the most irrational idea to come from Beck’s show. That award goes to the conversation he had with author Brad Thor, in which they openly discussed Trump’s assassination. They called the would-be assassin a “patriot.”

Source: Breitbart



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