Trump is too naive to take on the evil in DC. He won’t, and if he tries, he will fail. It’s not something that can be handled with money or connections, at this point.

Trump is winning – – hands down — the LIV vote.

The Less Intellectual Voter.

They’re pulling the lever based upon gut feelings and imputations.

The same feelings and imputations that put Barry Soetoro in the Oval Office.

So, yeah, they go a long way.

Trump is going to follow his life-script… which is “emperor.”

As a manager, Trump is pragmatic in the extreme.

What many take to be flip-flops are evidences of this trait.

Trump does not use a lot of experts as a crutch for his decisions.

He’s not needed to, as real estate development is pretty much a one-trick pony to ride.

Any time he strays too far from his knowledge base — and his strengths — he gets tripped up.

Trump University
Trump Steaks ( what a vanity shop that was )

And so forth.

One can bank on Trump deferring to the Pentagon on things military… becoming the anti-Soetoro in this respect.

Reagan was ALWAYS portrayed as a shoot-from-the-hip military adventurer.

Instead he collapsed the Soviet Union — bloodlessly.

Mr Reasonable, Bush I, stood around in stupefaction as the Wall collapsed, the Red Chinese went berserk, and Saddam rolled south — at which time Thatcher had to give him a spine injection.

HRCGS has the international instincts of Bush I.

Trump has the international instincts of Reagan.

You can count on Trump turning every problem in to a construction project.

Trump not only wants a wall, he wants to LITERALLY rebuild America.

He has a towering wall to climb in the Fall.

Unlike Dilbert, I figure Trump is a 19:1 underdog.

I figure Cruz as a 60:40 overdog.

( Not the vote — the probability of election. )

Trump is just certain to have countless GOP loyalists sitting on their hands in the Fall.

Pulling Democrats over — in massively Blue states like California will not result in any Electors for Trump.

I can see Trump losing even Texas… and Utah.

Sir Donald knows no smear that won’t be tried.

” As I said to Hugh Hewitt on a previous occasion, all the stories are different, and yet they’re all the same. And, alas, it becomes harder to mourn the dead when we never avenge them.”

How impressive that you can read Trump’s mind and know that he means well. And no doubt you can look into the minds of the other candidates and know that they don’t mean well.

That’s sarcasm, by the way.

Let me add that even if you are correct and Trump “means well” (which you have no way of ascertaining), it’s irrelevant. What’s relevant is what he will actually do, and how.

How impressive that you can read Trump’s mind and know that he means well. And no doubt you can look into the minds of the other candidates and know that they don’t mean well.

That’s sarcasm, by the way.

That’s relative to the GOP campaigns. The Trump campaign made the key strategic choice to ally with alt-Right activists adapting Left activist tactics. The GOP, handicapped by the activism deficiency of conservatives, has mostly made themselves look helpless. A “jayvee” team can look like a champ at the rec center.

It remains to be seen whether the “jayvee” Left-mimicking Trump-front alt-Right activists will raise their game to a varsity level if/when they move up in competition level from the activist-deficient GOP to face varsity Democrat-front Left activists. They might. After all, the varsity are graduates of the JV.

On the other hand, their principal objective is to displace conservatives and take over the GOP, not win the general election. They won’t turn down the presidency, of course, but the alt-Right activists might focus instead on consolidating their gains for this step of their Gramscian long march by securing the marginalization of conservatives and GOP holdouts rather than prioritize winning the general election.

For the alternative, the struggle by the not-Trump GOP campaigns versus the mere “jayvee” activism of the Trump campaign exposes the poor GOP readiness to compete against varsity Democrat-front Left activism in the general election.

Dennis:
“militant Islam poses to our society. If he does nothing more he will have far exceeded Bush with his defense of Islam the “religion of peace””

Bush got the strategy right.

For Qutbists, the characterization of Islam as a “religion of peace” that can co-exist with a liberal Western framework is anathema. They consider Muslims who believe that to be apostates.

Like everything else social cultural/political, whose preference defines the social condition is decided with an activist game.

We can’t kill our way to winning the War on Terror, though killing is part of establishing as the strong horse in the contest, which is a necessary piece to win that activist game. The path to winning the War on Terror is establishing as the strong horse and, from that position, empowering the Islamic factions disposed to the religion of peace characterization and opposed to militant Islam.

Bush recognized the needs of the mission and applied American leadership to that end with tangible progress … until Obama, with a different agenda than winning the War on Terror, changed course from Bush with catastrophic consequences.

He did indeed call for a shutdown, and it appears on his website.

Agree that Trump does not win. I also am very dismayed at the thought of Obama’s third term with either HRC or Biden. Trump’s negatives are already high and will only go higher.

Trump now saying he will “spill the beans” on Ted’s wife because Trump’s wife has a bunch of naked pictures in the public domain. Idle and pathetic threat.