Neoconservatism, Rip

Trump sweeps the primaries
Justin Raimondo
Mar. 03, 2016

March 1, 2016, will go down in history as the day the incubus of neoconservatism was banished from the Republican party -- and, in effect, destroyed as a viable political force. It's the day Donald Trump swept the GOP's Super Tuesday primary, taking -- as of this writing -- Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Vermont, and Tennessee.

Three realities are clear from the results:

1. Marco Rubio is finished.

The great white hope of the neocons, Marco Rubio, only managed to eke out a minor win in Minnesota, which is a caucus state, and inconsequential insofar as delegates are concerned. He failed to mine the rich delegate cache in Texas, where he failed to make the 20 percent minimum and received not a single delegate.

The much-vaunted "Marco-mentum" exists only in the minds of a few neocon pundits: insofar as the voters are concerned, that conceit is a joke. But then again, the neocons have always existed in their own world: these are the same people who, to this day, insist that the Iraq war wasn't a disaster, it was actually a great victory. Rubio's vicious -- and often ridiculous -- attacks on Trump are the result of his neocon advisors telling him he has to get down in the mud with The Donald. But the fact of the matter is that this style doesn't suit him -- and it had no effect on the Super Tuesday primaries.

The bottom line is that Rubio won very few delegates. Trump won a minimum of 258. Rubio and his neocon supporters are generals without an army. And he is now 20 points behind in his home state, Florida: in two weeks, when that primary is held, his goose is going to be thoroughly cooked.

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