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  1. Yes; it’s almost like they wanted him to be the nominee. The Democrats will have to approach Republican party levels of ineptitude to not be able to defeat him.

  2. It’s not just the “news” that’s all Trump all the time; the pundits can’t keep away from the catnip either. And the interesting thing is how so many of them either get things wrong because they just don’t get the point of the Trump bandwagon, or PUT things wrong to make their own points.
    In category 2 is Smarick’s Federalist article; read it, then look at the first few comments. Those readers understood the author’s point all right.

    http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/26/how-conservatives-should-respond-to-the-trump-riot/#disqus_thread

    J.E. Dyer is not a Trump supporter, but she always gets the point.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/05/27/protests-old-consensus-right-still-not-getting-trump-phenomenon/

  3. Your 1st paragraph in your 1st column on Trump explained why Trump is the nominee and may have a shot at being President: he controls the news coverage and therefore can get his narrative out there. No Republican before him could do that. There may be something behind the saying that nice guys finish last. Nice guys can’t get their narrative listened to.

  4. Aesopfan: 2 great articles that explain the Trump phenomenon perfectly. If one extends the premise of both articles, then the logical outcome will be CW II. All those “voiceless” people WILL be heard; fighting both the left and the political establishment.

  5. AesopFan, those two linked articles confirm the Bret Baier special on Foxnews in which Baier interviewed the people who are supporting Trump. They are people who feel left behind and abandoned by both parties. Trump represents a change agent. They don’t care about his knowledge gaps on foreign policy, the military, government functions, etc. What they see is a man who is not PC and speaks their language. They see him as their last best hope.

    Whatever we may think of him, it’s them who put him in the position to be the next President.
    I don’t see in him what they see, but I now have an understanding of them.

  6. Two thoughts come to mind:

    The first, in reaction to neo’s;
    “This post is not about Donald Trump.

    It’s about coverage of Donald Trump”

    This instantly brought to mind Bette Midler in “Beaches” saying “But enough about me, let’s talk about you. What do you think of me?”

    The second, a George Orwell quote that applies somewhat to Trump, not as to his veracity but to the public’s desperation for plain talk;
    “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

    Trump, to a certain degree gets closer to speaking the truth plainly (nonPC) than any other candidate, i.e. stop illegal immigration, ban Muslim migration, correct the trade imbalance and that, America’s government should put Americans first.

    That he fails to provide any indication of how he’ll do these things is for many, decidedly second in importance to the fact that at least he has the boat pointed in the right direction. And, whether the captain is ‘drunk’ or honest or not, at least he is acknowledging that our ship of state is headed toward deadly shoals. That he does so crudely is taken by many as an indication that he will not let political correctness (which is responsible for much of our woes) stand in his way.

    When mortal dangers threaten, people seize ‘lifeboats’.

  7. There seem to be 2 types of trump fans. Those who are afraid for their futures and feel alienated, and the alt-right who seek destruction. I understand the first group as I feel estranged from the boys and girls who preen inside the Beltway and inhabit the msm and Hollywood. However, I do not seek at the tiller of the “lifeboat” someone who knows not south from north or west from east, someone who would throw me overboard if I questioned his navigation skills.

    The afraid and alienated had several excellent choices to turn the lifeboat towards shore. Instead they chose the serial liar and reality tv narcissistic buffoon. No thanks.

  8. GB,

    The grandeur of donald will do absolutely nothing on the wish list should he end up inhabiting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I just hope that should that happen there are SS agents who will throw him down and handcuff him if he starts playing with ‘the nuclear football’. 😉

  9. parker,

    I’m not hopeful but do admit to the possibility that Trump may surprise in, despite himself, accomplishing some things of worth.

    For the Sec. Service to step in will require an extraordinary set of circumstances.

  10. GB,

    I was joking about the SS, well mostly. From my pov your possibility that trump may surprise has all the weight of turning an F5 tornado away from my house with a fart. Yes, djt will surprise given the opportunity. Increased funding for PP. ‘Assualt weapon’ bans via EO. XYs in XX shower rooms. Yet another “reset” with Putin. And the beat goes on, and on, and on, and on. A big, YUGE sheesh.

  11. GB,

    Djt is an extraordinary set of circumstances. Its like Son of Sam in charge of the DOJ. When you side with the burn it down crowd you shall reap the whirlwind.

  12. GB,

    You admit to… pardon the Adolf comparison, but this was exactly the Weimar Republic circa 1931. A non PC nationalist demagogue. Wow, yes all abandon principals for a reality tv progressive in non pc clothing. Yes, lets all line up to vote for a progressive who will champion pretend to be a confused gender puppy in my granddaughter’s shower room. No, I prefer a wall, blindfolds, and 30 caliber.

  13. GB:

    Seizing lifeboats generally doesn’t work out if you have read anything regarding loss of life at sea.

    Jammed rigging/davits, boats dropped into the ocean/smashed, boat overfilled or with not enough people aboard… Those who keep their head in times of peril are more likely to be of service and survive.

  14. Physicsguy Says:
    May 28th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
    Aesopfan: 2 great articles that explain the Trump phenomenon perfectly. If one extends the premise of both articles, then the logical outcome will be CW II. All those “voiceless” people WILL be heard; fighting both the left and the political establishment.
    ***
    I have seen variants of the following maxim, and I think it describes the essence of the Trump situation:
    When you drive the reasonable people out of political discourse, all you have left are the unreasonable ones.

    The Left has been shouting down reasonable people on all sides of the issues for decades; when the Right (especially in the leadership cohort of the Republican Party) weighed in against the concerns of the “peons” as well, there arose a perception that no reasonable people remained in the discourse.

  15. Trump never seems to express that he is concerned with the gravity and immensity of some of decisions he may have to make.

    Plus he is often critical of everyone but himself.

    Those two qualities combined more than bug me.

  16. “When you side with the burn it down crowd you shall reap the whirlwind.” parker

    My point is that the consequence of America’s ‘decision’ to install either Trump or Hillary/Sanders/Biden will be the reaping of a whirlwind.

    The nature of that whirlwind may be the same or it may differ enough to matter. Time will tell. But however things go; Improvise, Adapt and Overcome.

    OM,

    Yes, seizing lifeboats rarely ends well. Desperate, ‘stampeding herds’ of people are incapable of reasoned actions.

    Rudyard Kipling had the right of it;

    “If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

    If you can dream–and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings–nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
    And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!”

  17. I’m surprised people are talking about CW 2 online. Back in 2009 and 2007, nobody was. Not even the old guard confederate Democrat KKK slave barons were talking about re fighting Civil War 1, let alone another one.

    People only talk about things when they become imminent, then it’s too late to stop the events in motion, so all they can do is talk about them.

    America has long ago run out of time, and second chances. This may be the last back stop until the Pyrhhic Victory or Retreat and Burn the Russians did against Napoleon, but it’s not going to be quite as successful as people hope. The cost will most likely be higher than people can imagine.

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