In a recent interview with CNN, the former host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, offered an interesting position on the 2016 election. He said that the reason the GOP elected Donald Trump to the office of President is to ruin big government and then use it to claim that big government doesn't work. It isn't a new argument but it is one that is worth keeping an eye on over the next four years as Democrats attempt to gear up for the 2020 election. Last year, Ring of Fire made a similar claim:

Republicans hate the government – that’s not a secret. But what they don’t want you to know is that they intentionally sabotage government work just so that they can prove the government is broken.

Stewart's thesis could be one answer to conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer who wrote recently in The National Review about the curious case of the GOP choosing to nominate a leader who is decidedly anti-conservative; he is even left of Obama on some issues, Krauthammer claims.

If Trump is a great big middle finger aimed at a Republican establishment that has abandoned its principles, isn’t it curious that the party has chosen a man without any?

It may not be as simple as the GOP "doesn't care" about Trump's lack of conservative values, as Krauthammer claims. Rather, it may be precisely that Trump doesn't have conservative values that made him such an attractive Republican candidate. If the GOP can go against their traditional values so-called "on behalf of the people" and put Trump in office, then when Trump fails it will be a worthy four year sacrifice to prove that both the people and the government are corrupt and decision-making should be turned back over to a Republican establishment that is better suited to making our decisions for us.