The "Rigged" Republican Race

I'm really disgusted by the current Trump move to call the Republican delegate selection process "rigged".  Delegates to the national convention are being selected just the same way that they are every four years.  Each state has its own rules, and those rule have been in place without change since last summer.  Indeed, when the delegate selection rules were finalized, no one thought that there would be a race like the current one.  Let's put this in proper perspective.  In every presidential race of the last 36 years, there has been a presumptive Republican nominee in place by mid-April.  Indeed, in every race during the last 50 years except 1976, when Ford and Reagan battled for the nomination, there has been a presumptive nominee by this time of the year.  When the time for delegate selection came, similar processes to the current ones were use, but it made no difference.  It's really obnoxious for Trump to call the system "rigged" when the truth is that all that has happened is that Trump has been unable to wrap up the nomination like all the other Republican front runners of the last half century (but one.)

The reality is that Trump is just trying to hide his own failure to understand the system and to prepare to deal with it by claiming that the fault lies with that system rather than the with Trump himself.  The outcome won't change, but it's wrong to denigrate the people who have worked hard to become delegates by claiming that they are part of a corrupt system.  Some delegates have even received death threats from some of the more delusional supporters of the Donald.  This inappropriate behavior is just another manifestation of why Trump ought not be the nominee.