robert s point about the other candidates in georgia is fascinating. what is trumpism and how deep does it run in american politics. the candidates who have associated themselves most closely with trump and trumpism actually did not do well tonight at all. the candidate if there s a runoff is an establishment type republican. you re also seeing what are republicans then doing when they re asked about donald trump? are they going to throw themselves across the tracks for donald trump? and they re not. on my radio show i was talking with paul ryan and i asked him are you ever going to break with criticize donald trump if he crosses the line, for example, when donald trump said i don t think bill rifle did anything wrong. i asked him, what do you think? his answer was, well, i hadn t heard this story, i don t read the new york times. what i m reading there is that right now they don t want to