Romney Slams Trump As A ‘Con Man.’ But He Doesn’t Get It, And Neither Do The Establishment.

On Thursday, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah, where he laid out a full-scale assault on 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. As I wrote yesterday, this was a poor idea – it demonstrates in living color that the Republican establishment refuses to acknowledge the role it played in bringing Trump to prominence. Romney created the sense in 2012 that he was unwilling to fight Barack Obama with all the tools at his disposal; conservatives felt that the establishment crammed down the creator of Obamacare on them, and now here he is, lecturing grassroots voters on how best to uphold conservatism.

Yuck.