{"id":94736,"date":"2016-05-04T07:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94736"},"modified":"2016-05-04T07:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:44:36","slug":"trump-kicks-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94736","title":{"rendered":"Trump Kicks Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* It\u2019s funny to remember that during the McCain kerfuffle some smart pundits said Trump had jumped the shark. They didn\u2019t realize Trump\u2019s honesty was part of his appeal.<\/p>\n

Trump grew up hearing about war heroes who kicked ass, like Audie Murphy. Vietnam had them too, men like Roy Benavidez. McCain wasn\u2019t that kind of war hero: he wasn\u2019t a hero for kicking ass; he was a war hero for stoically getting his ass kicked.<\/p>\n

And McCain used the coin of that suffering to repeatedly try to screw over the Republican base. It was great to see Trump take him down a peg.<\/p>\n

Trump performed a similar service with the Bushes. Before Trump, a Republican couldn\u2019t come out and say W. was a complete disaster. You had to qualify the disaster in Iraq by saying, \u201cat least he kept us safe\u201d. Trump heard Jeb say that and reminded him that W. was president during the civilian version of Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n

Trump has been the enema the GOP needed. He didn\u2019t just beat Jeb, Rubio, and Cruz. He exposed them. None of them has a shot at running for POTUS again. They probably won\u2019t even try.<\/p>\n

* I\u2019ve thought since the 1980s that Trump is pretty much the perfect surname to turn into a brand name\u2013so good that I had to remind myself that the actual Trump Tower or whatever wasn\u2019t as good as the name made you think it must be.<\/p>\n

* The Germans did not \u201clure\u201d the Italians into WW2. Mussolini happily jumped in, against Hitler\u2019s wishes, when he thought the war was safely won and almost over. Germany had to keep rescuing Italy from Mussolini\u2019s blunders in the Balkans and in North Africa. Without those diversions Germany would have had a much better concentration of forces on the eastern front. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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