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• I don't support gay people. I don't support people of color. I don't support women. I am purist/wild-eyed zealot. I hate Hillary Clinton as a person. I adopt Republican criticism of Clinton uncritically. I am ignorant of Bernie's flaws as a candidate. I love Trump. I want Trump to win.

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Alright. Jason and I have to admit that we were wrong. Ted Cruz will not be the nominee. And Unstable Isotope was right: Donald Trump will be the nominee. Bernie Sanders rebounded after a string of five defeats over the last two weeks to defeat Hillary Clinton in the Indiana Democratic presidential 52% to 48%. He wins 43 delegates to Hillary's 37 from the contest, meaning he has gained 6 delegates on Hillary from the performance. At that rate, he will catch up to Hillary sometime in April 2017 after she has passed her first budget as President. Hillary leads Sanders still by 296 pledged delegates, thus Sander's win last night, or wins by similar margins in all of the remaining nine contests, does little to impede Clinton's likely path to the nomination. Ted Cruz had a much easier path to the nomination of his party than does Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party. Ted Cruz dropped out last night because that path was foreclosed. Bernie's path to the nomination was foreclosed on April 19 after his 20 point loss in the New York primary. But he remains in the race.

I saw this last week, but held off on posting it. But now Bernie Sanders himself is insisting we are going to a contested convention that he will win.

Did you notice how easy it was for Copeland to pivot from hating Trump to loving him? A while back Josh Marshall dissected the #nevertrump mindset and sketched a path by which Establishment Republicans like Charlie Copeland could come to love for Trump quickly and completely. He began by asking about the basic policy differences someone like Copeland might have with Trump. There aren't many because Trump is essentially a doctrinaire Republican, only more so.

From the fingers of George F. Will: "In losing disastrously, Trump probably would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of the House. Ticket splitting is becoming rare in polarized America: In 2012, only 5.7 percent of voters supported a presidential candidate and a congressional candidate of opposite parties...Were he to be nominated, conservatives would have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states -- condign punishment for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the manners and grace that should lubricate the nation's civic life. Second, conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators, representatives, governors and state legislators as possible."