LETTER: What if Trump got elected? Would GOP heads explode?

Consider this just for fun: Regardless of all his bluster, absurd rhetoric, harsh retaliation when challenged and rather strange way of answering whatever the question is with comments on how great he is; regardless of all this, Donald Trump could sail through the Republican primary, go on to win the general election and find himself sitting in the Oval Office in January 2017. This could happen.

Let’s assume he is a man who listens to well-chosen advisers he values and trusts. Let’s assume he is a willing student of U.S. and world affairs. Let’s assume he has the will and capacity to grasp the enormity of the office of president of the United States of America. Let’s assume he knows how to gather good people around him, charm his adversaries and make sensible appointments.

I use all these “let’s assume” propositions because this man, Donald Trump, the head of the huge Trump empire, is a man who does understand fiscal responsibility, does know how to engage in discussions of significant importance, can negotiate and has an impressive bearing and a lot of energy. He has also had experience dealing with many, many different people in his business dealings. He is not without experience.

Another interesting and related thought on all this: If Trump is our next president, will the leaders of the Republican Party continue their disdain of this man or will they have accepted him and backed him by that time? If they don’t back him, will they do the same thing to him that they did to Obama and block everything he, as president, attempts to accomplish through the legislative process?

This raises the question, how many times can you cut your own throat before you totally bleed out? It seems unbelievable that the party leadership might cut their throat again. What an interesting time in American political life. Is there a Grand Old Party anymore?

Remember, we are considering this just for fun.

—Bob McClellan, Polson