Ah, The Libidinous Visitor has set up shop in another person's head. In this case, it is a head that is chockful of old useful slanders, and finely crafted invective, and shrewd appeals to ignorance and anger out of which the owner of the head got rich and out of which Trumpism was made inevitable. Irony has an awfully big hammer, and the owner of the head in question is now feeling the hammer dropping repeatedly on his overstuffed, rancid melon.

"This is a different cat," Luntz added. "It's not like Ross Perot in 1992, where people were simply unhappy with the two major parties; they're choosing Trump affirmatively. Honestly, my legs are shaking looking at these numbers. All those people who think he's going to implode are wrong. He's not going away."

Luntz is chief among those in what is laughably referred to as a "Republican establishment" who are terrified of The Libidinous Visitor when they should be more terrified of the audience to whom he is appealing, and the very large box of rocks that this now largely vestigial "Republican establishment" has spent almost four decades building.

"I used to sleep on my front porch with the door wide open, and now everyone has deadbolts," one man said. "I believe the best days of the country are behind us."

"I'm frustrated beyond belief. I feel like I've been lied to," a woman said. "Nothing's getting better."

"We know his goal is to make America great again," a woman said. "It's on his hat. And we see it every time it's on TV. Everything that he's doing, there's no doubt why he's doing it: it's to make America great again."

"We love our country and we love what our country stands for," said a woman who added she comes from a military family. "I look at where we are now as a country where entitlements are just totally out of control. Our borders have completely dissolved. We're not what we used to be. I want to people to represent my interest."

So far, The Libidinous Visitor has done nothing and has said nothing in his campaign that the untouched Republican saint, Ronald Reagan, didn't say or do in either of his campaigns. The people quoted above could have been talking to a reporter in 1980. In its perpetual campaign to cast Reagan in marble and set him atop a shining city on a hill, the "Republican establishment" has sancitified amiable duncehood, smiling deceit, and personal political nihilism presented as patriotism of the highest order. And now Luntz is nervous because people have taken this entire beatification process to heart and applied it to someone Frank Luntz thinks is an impure vessel?

Honky, please. I mean, it's on his hat, man! Get with the program.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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