Jindal on Trump: read it here (and laugh)

In a screamingly risible Wall Street Journal op-ed, former governor Bobby Jindal ponders why the Republican base sticks with Donald Trump:

"A shallow answer is politics: Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker both tangled with Mr. Trump, and it turned out to be political suicide," writes Jindal. "But to get a deeper answer, it’s instructive to examine what Mr. Trump hasn’t done. Since the campaign, Mr. Trump has abandoned many of his previous positions and embraced traditional conservative views …"

… on, for instance, wildly irresponsible deficit-financed tax cuts, wildly ultraconservative Court nominees, and wildly reckless gun policies. Concludes the eternally befuddled Gov. Jindal:

"It isn’t unusual for a politician to change positions. Unsurprisingly, voters tend to be more forgiving of flip-flops when they agree with the final result. This explains why Mr. Trump is forgiven for abandoning Republican orthodoxy on free trade and entitlement reform."

Nowhere in Jindal's deep musings on the strange attraction of the even stranger Donald Trump is a reference to his No. 1 appeal to the base: his brutal racism. The Republican base gives not one damn if Trump jettisons free-trade ideology, for example, as long as he hates the right people — anyone of the wrong color.

Somehow, this slipped Jindal's mind.