* Seems in tandem with the media’s effort to dislodge Trump is an effort to convince everyone that dissenting from the left’s agenda is nothing more than being childish–namely, being irrationally “fearful” and “anxious”.
There is no shortage of examples of this. From a headline in today’s NY Times: “As Obama Checks Off List of Goals Met, a Nervous Nation Dwells on Terror”
Recent op-ed from the WaPo: “Obama is a rationalist president in the age of anxiety”
Etc.
I guess the endless stream of hysterical ad hominem smears wasn’t demonstrating the cudgeling effect it has long had, so now they’re moving onto the tried-and-true “pathologize your dissidents” strategy.
* It seems to me the WSJ is nudging or directing the anti-Trumpers to quit attacking Trump on being “shocking” and “loudmouthed” and “racist” because it’s not working and only making him stronger.
Instead, they’re telling the MSM to hit him in the pocketbook.
Except that the Univision-crowd tried this already and failed (cancelling contracts, bookings, refusing his beauty pageant). It would take a mega-concerted effort to really hit Trump hard in the pocketbook, and that would bring out lawsuits galore from Trump against them.
Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi is the public figure that most resembles Trump: shameless, right of center for his country, younger women (one at 18 while he’s in his 70s), oodles of bombastic charm, smirks, billionaire, sharply dressed, telegenic. He’s won the Italian leadership several times, off and on. The major difference is Silvio owns his own media-TV channels there, which gives him his own platform. Trump is running against even the right-wing (Fox) network’s open-borders viewpoint. Trump has countered this by being so outrageous that he’s gotten free air time.
* Adelson in Trump’s corner, or at least not opposing Trump, is a devastating blow to the establishment Republicans.
* What Trump did with Ali G is reframe and dominate multiple times during the conversation which through AG completely off his own script. AG became the mewling supplicant begging Trump not to run with Trump’s own off-the-cuff ice cream innovation.
Look at Ali’s facial expressions. Body language. Ali looks like a general watching his troops get routed.
The clip is on YouTube. The tone is set immediately when Trump responds to the first question with “music.” Right there all of the humor goes out of Ali GM’s act because he’s forced to scramble and somehow make his script work, but it can’t work because Trump keeps blowing up the script’s premise.
* As for Obama’s IQ, he can’t talk extemporaneously without coming off as a stutterer and ignoramus. Hence the reason that all questions to Obama must be submitted beforehand. His Harvard grades are sealed, so I suspect he another AA graduate. His early political career shows a man totally indifferent to everything.
Trump connects with people for a reason. He brings up the issues that the other oligarchic puppets won’t. This allows him to bypass the media and political experts. Yes he’s brusque but it’s not something the average working person isn’t used to.
BTW a smart man can talk to the masses, you just don’t condescend or play mind games. You simply speak the truth in a straightforward manner. Trump does.
The reason why your so-called brainiacs can’t talk to them is because they are all liars and frauds. They don’t dare to tell the American people that their policies will result in further mass economic rapes, the obliteration of the middle-class and later the demise of the country.
* If Trump tried to implement all of the policies that most people here favor, society would go into cardiac arrest on the operating table. Considering that NO ONE ELSE is proposing ANY of what Trump has advocated, the nation would be blessed if he followed through on even one policy position. What’s the alternative?
* I’m a Trump fan. I’ve been listening to the “Perot 2.0″ arguments, the prearranged deal with Bill arguments. Trump is eating all the sacred cows. Show him one, he sees a tasty hamburger. Yes, yes, yes you can drag out your American fascist accusations, you can throw around your buffoon and your clown charges. I’m reminded of Captain Renault from “Casablanca.”
Major Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he’s just another blundering American.
Captain Renault: We musn’t underestimate “American blundering”. I was with them when they “blundered” into Berlin in 1918.
Just look at how much the establishment hates him, when he says things like “The question is, do we have a country or not?” That’s gold, and they hate it. “Israel has a wall.” Like vampires to sunlight, that’s how they react. “Yeah let Putin get ISIS in Syria. Good for him.” Aiiiiiieeeeeee!
Where does the ride go? Who knows.
But some of the things we’ve been worrying about and obsessing about for years are all of a sudden a part of the conversation, even if it’s an awkward part. Walls, borders, national identity, “I met with Sheldon Adelson but I don’t want his money.” Look, I was a Ron Paul man from way back, from back in the early 1980s with the whole newsletter thing. I’m proud of what Ron Paul did, both in his time in the government, and in his run for the presidency. Trump has already introduced concepts, tropes, ideas, that Ron Paul somehow couldn’t get into the discussion.
And if Trump stabs us in the back? If he turns out to be a for real and for true no shit American Hitler? Well, he’ll have broken the artificial stagnant pool of water that is American politics. That cannot have been an intended consequence of any false flag or deal with Billy operation.
* The greatest US Presidents share one thing in common: They were all leaders and pretty much individuals. Their force of personality, charisma, call it what you will, is the main thing that held together the various groups and factions from splintering apart.
It’s the Commander in Chief, not the leading by committee. Leading, is after all, a one man role. So it has been throughout history and so it shall ever be. Throughout his adult life in the private sector Trump has been an individual leader, but at the same time he has also shown abilities to persuade and build coalitions in order to achieve his largest goals. He knows well how to build a group for the larger goal at hand. How this will translate to the public sector is anyone’s guess but so long as he stays on message and focuses on being a leader and the individual aspects of being the Commander in Chief, the individual role of the presidency, (which would tend to play to his instincts and strengths) he should do pretty well. Behind the scenes of course he will choose certain lieutenants to help implement his policies. He can always hire the “right people” to sort out all the various details, whether its an H-1B; Triad; etc. The details come and go; the larger goal/big picture remains the same and in that sense, Donald Trump could be the right man to get the job done. The big question of course is whether or not the GOP leaders at large will be satisfied with the lieutenants that are chosen to implement his policies.
Remember: Ronald Reagan, like Trump, did not obsessively focus on details. He focused on the big picture and achieved many of them during his two administrations.
* A Trump admin focused on restricting immigration and balancing trade to create more jobs in the US would find a lot supporters in economically depressed parts of the country. Bear in mind that those supporters need not necessarily be Republicans. It may be that Trump causes a realignment, where the remaining nationalist Dems come over to the GOP, and some of the globalist GOPs switch to the Dems. In other words. the Dems remain a high-low coalition, but the GOP gets a bigger chunk of the middle while losing some of its own top layer.
