NR: Trump the leader of the Republican WHINOs

Many publications and commentators on the right are furiously attempting to bring Republicans to their senses as they, once again, embrace the clownish Donald Trump.

With Trump tied for the top spot in the Republican presidential field in one national poll and No. 1 in several state polls, few voices on the right have erupted quite so feverishly as those of the folks at National Review.

NR’s Kevin Williamson takes on Trump in a column today that identifies a new wing of the GOP electorate: the WHINOs. With his bombast and arrogant pronouncements, the NR writer believes Trump has taken hold of the WHINOs who believe moving right is always just right.

Here’s Williamson:

“You know the RINO — Republican In Name Only — but you may be less familiar with the WHINO. The WHINO is a captive of the populist Right’s master narrative, which is the tragic tale of the holy, holy base, the victory of which would be entirely assured if not for the machinations of the perfidious Establishment.

“Never mind the Democrats, economic realities, Putin, ISIS, the geographical facts of the U.S.-Mexico border — all would be well and all manner of things would be well if not for the behind-the-scenes plotting of Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and their enablers, who apparently can be bribed with small numbers of cocktail weenies. The WHINO is a Republican conspiracy theorist, in whose fervid imaginings all the players — victims, villains — are Republicans.

“Barack Obama? Pshaw. The real enemy is Jeb Bush.”