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  Donald Trump snookers the GOP establishment, again
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Last EditedRP  Sep 03, 2015 07:20pm
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AuthorGreg Sargent
News DateThursday, September 3, 2015 08:25:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe storyline is now that Trump and the GOP establishment have reached an understanding, after GOP leaders agreed to stop treating him unfairly. As he put it today, the GOP has been “terrific” to Trump (he does love that word), because he insisted on that treatment. He — not Republican leaders — set the agenda. Even if the notion that Trump was ever treated unfairly is absurd, is there any reason to doubt that a whole lot of GOP primary voters — particularly Trump’s supporters — will be very receptive to this interpretation of what happened?

As a special bonus, Trump also gets to define what “fairly” means. If at any time in coming weeks and months, Trump even so much as hints that Republicans are treating him unfairly, mass panic will again set in, without anyone even knowing by what objective metric “fair treatment of Trump” can even be gauged.

Not only that, but this high profile gesture of detente between Trump and GOP leaders — in which he has pledged full “allegiance” to the GOP and conservative principles — could disarm attacks on his previous positions that are designed to sow doubt about his commitment to the Republican cause.
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