* Trump’s a man who understands that celebrities have a new persona in the last 50 years, and that is the television persona.
Caesar could be chummy with a common beggar he ran into and individually offer clemency to his military and political opponents, but in a business dealing, or in the Senate, or with an army behind him, he became vicious. SO too with Trump, except he realizes that television demands a third persona: bombastic entertainer. And so he delivers.
But I don’t really care how Trump acts in his personal life. To steal from and up the ante on Ann Coulter , at this point Trump could privately perform 3rd trimester abortions at the White House while kicking a puppy and burning lupus orphans alive, and we wouldn’t care. What we want is the bombastic asshole on TV to be a bombastic asshole on the job and deliver us a beautiful border fence, deport the illegals, and cut our legal immigration to 90%. If he does that, I don’t care if he’s a hero to his valet or not.
That’s what drags many politicians down: that some private peccadillo/personal behavior is so destructive to their political persona that it ends them. Hilary is paranoid about people finding out she’s a cold bitch, Cruz that he’s a two-faced liar, etc. Trump has effectively neutralized such a chink in his own armor because (1) the worst possible version of Trump’s behavior is already front and center—and so he’s innoculated, because any story about his personal behavior will either confirm what we see or else make him look like a better person; and (2) he’s running on an issue so beloved by the American people that we don’t care if he’s not our ideal president—all we care about is that he’s the ideal guy at the moment to deliver on it.
* [Hugh] Hewitt has been a butt-boy for the Republican establishment forever. As somebody else has pointed out he used to attack LA’s John and Ken as “racists” for their stand against amnesty.
* It was supposed to be a big deal Trump had never heard of the triad, problem is no-one else had either.
Ben does seems like he is a member of the choom gang.
