Now, folks, I'm not particularly eager to be repetitive here because there's so much new every day, but I want to go back, I've spent a couple days here trying to make the case with analogies and everything at my disposal to try to illustrate and inform just precisely how the Republican establishment is not going to sit by and let somebody take away from them what they have.
It's not just their power. I mean, that's a large element of it. But it's their entire reason for existing. Positions of standing in one of the only two major political parties in the country, there's so much tied to it. Five of the seven wealthiest counties surround Washington, DC. The networking there, the contacts, the power structure, the ladder of success that you climb there, it's well laid out. It's perfectly structured.
It is a very exclusionary club, and it is not merit based. Entry into the club is not something you can just apply for and become a member. It requires breeding. It requires certain pedigrees and resumes and education and so forth. It has provided a lot of power, a tremendous amount of wealth, huge self-esteem. These are people that walk around feeling really big about themselves. There's a lot of swagger.
People walk around, they feel very happy with themselves, very powerful, very smug, very confident, because the future is laid out, the structure is what it is. And members are taken care of. Everybody's got everybody's back. And the idea that something like this could be busted up with an election? Sorry. Not gonna tolerate it. Not gonna even give that a chance. They're going to resist whatever effort is made to wrest power from them, to assume their positions or what have you, which is how they see Trump.
So, despite all the talk that you hear -- and I think it's smoke screen talk -- from this establishment member or that particular Republican or that consultant or that lobbyist or whatever, despite talk of unity and coming together, believe me, behind the scenes there is none of that. Behind the scenes all there is is scheming that is designed to protect what they've got. That's more important than the party winning elections. Do not doubt me.
