Barring a backroom deal which would break several records for wire pull-ery, Donald Trump will be the 2016 Republican nominee for president of the United States. Unless Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Governor John Kasich pull off a show-stopper worthy of one of Trump’s own memoirs, they’re going to be submitting resumes to Trump’s vice presidential search team.

Forget the “experts.” Flush the “prognosticators.” Tell the talking heads to take a long walk off a short pier. The people have spoken. And Donald Trump is their man. The GOP threw everything but the kitchen sink at him; and then he used Super Tuesday to drag them out back and smack the tar out of them. And judging by the polling results, the people didn’t just watch; they held the GOP down.

As far as I’m concerned, the Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. Seven years of talking tough on camera and then batting their eyes at President Obama behind closed doors created Trump. Seven years of playing defense for the banksters created Trump. Seven years of keeping their foot in the door for every northbound illegal alien created Trump. They can either take Trump’s ascendancy as the lesson in humility they needed, or they can stand as bridesmaids at another Trump wedding.

Whatever you might think of Trump as a candidate or a man, there’s no denying his campaign has been nothing short of a masterwork. He correctly identified that the public’s dissatisfaction with congress was less an endorsement of Obama and more an indictment of the Republicans’ failure to drop the curtain on his dance across the Bill of Rights. Trump exploited the gap between the Republicans’ rhetoric and the Republicans’ action, and caught them so blind-sided that he left them looking out their ear holes.

But that gap only existed because the Republicans refused to fill it. A deal was there to be made, and making deals is kind of Trump’s “thing.” And the people are buying what he’s selling. Judging by the Super Tuesday returns, Trump is not only piling up delegates, he’s piling up believers. While Hillary Clinton’s jalopy of a campaign sputtered past Bernie Sanders’ wheezing mule, Trump rocketed past the field like an F-18 buzzing the Democrats’ horse-drawn caravan of crusty old white people. While Democrats found better things to do with their time than mash the button for one of their party’s dogs, Republicans lined up for Trump like people used to line up for the Rolling Stones before they got all old and weird. With vote totals on the Republican side exceeding even 2008 levels, Trump can make a legitimate case for being the most energizing candidate since Ronald Reagan rocked the house in 1980.

more: (it's pretty factual) http://patriotrising.com/2016/03/04/the-peoples-donald/