The biggest takeaway from the Iowa caucuses is not one about any individual candidate’s performance. It is that the establishment won once again.
Some people were outraged that media outlets announced former President Donald Trump as the winner just minutes into the caucuses before most people had even voted. ABC News, the Associated Press, CNN, and NBC News all called the race despite their respective policies prohibiting them from doing so before all polls close.
Of course, their doing so, and undermining confidence in elections by “calling” the results before people have even voted, is not a surprise. Corporate, establishment media want Trump to be the GOP nominee, either because he is easier for President Joe Biden to beat or because they want the increased ratings that putting Trump front and center brought them, or both. None of this is new, and none of this is a surprise. They got exactly what they wanted.
So, too, did the GOP establishment. Despite assertions to the contrary, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is not the establishment choice because it isn’t 2016 anymore. Trump is the GOP establishment’s choice. He is backed by the speaker of the House and all of the House GOP leaders, 137 House Republicans compared to six for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and one for Haley, 24 senators compared to none for DeSantis or Haley, and nine GOP governors compared to three combined for DeSantis and Haley. Trump hand-picked the leader of the Republican National Committee. He is the establishment.
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Everyone in the establishment wins from last night’s Iowa results. Corporate media get to focus on their click machine who is toxic to the GOP’s brand. “The Swamp” gets one step closer to the candidate it walked all over during his presidency, including during the pandemic that Trump simply handed off to health bureaucrats such as Dr. Anthony Fauci. And the GOP establishment gets one step closer to getting exactly what it is it wants, which is Trump once again leading the party.
DeSantis is obviously the candidate the establishment doesn’t want, made clear by how much money is being spent against him and how both the media and Trump’s flock all want him to lose. Haley is an establishment relic, the kind of politician the Republican establishment left behind when Trump won in 2016. Trump winning in Iowa is exactly what the establishment wants, whether it be the GOP or the alliance of Democrats, media, and the bureaucracy. The Iowa caucuses couldn’t have gone any better for either group.
