Not sure if this was posted, but a worthwhile look at Romney's thinking regardless of your feelings on him/Trump -
Mitt Romney spoke out against Donald Trump after months of rising frustration - The Boston Globe
It could probably be twisted and used to support 7 or 8 different narratives, but the parallels to his father's failed campaign do add some interesting color.
Quote:
In 1964, a 17-year-old Mitt Romney joined his father, George, at Republican National Convention. George Romney urged the party to adopt a platform rejecting “extremists,” but he failed, Barry Goldwater became the party’s nominee, and Romney was furious.
As he wrote later in a letter to Goldwater, George Romney feared those who were “preaching and practicing hate and bearing false witness on the basis of guilt by association.”
“With such extremists rising to positions of leadership in the Republican Party, we cannot recapture the respect of the nation and lead it to its necessary spiritual, moral, and political rebirth if we hide our heads in the sand and decline to even recognize in our platform that the nation is again beset by modern ‘know nothings,’ ” Romney wrote.
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