For a long time I’ve conceptualized Trump voters as falling into two camps: the enthusiastic and the reluctant. No doubt there are some who fall in between, too, but I think that mainly there are those two categories. The first … Continue reading →
Byron York discusses it here. The major points, as he sees them: First, Trump announced that he will aggressively move to deport criminal illegal immigrants – that is, immigrants who have committed crimes beyond the act of entering the country … Continue reading →
Trump has a low bar to clear: all he has to do to go up in the polls is to appear sane, steady, rational. The more he can do that, the more chance he has of actually beating Hillary Clinton. … Continue reading →
A reader kindly sent me a link to this article at American Thinker by Thomas Lifson, which gives some hope to Trump supporters that the so-called “Monster vote” for Trump may be emerging. Lifson bases his piece on this post … Continue reading →
I repeat: why is this considered news?: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday he is open to “softening” laws dealing with illegal immigrants in a “Hannity” town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. His remarks were the latest sign … Continue reading →
This post may seem to be about Donald Trump’s campaign, and it certainly was sparked by things I’ve been noticing about that campaign. But my aim is to describe some phenomena I’ve noticed over the years about campaigns in general, … Continue reading →
Have you noticed that a lot of news aggregate websites are completely consumed by links to articles about this election? That happens every election year to a certain extent, but this year it seems completely out of hand. Remember how, … Continue reading →
Commenter “Thomas Doubting” has made a request in the “Mr. Trump regrets” thread: Neo, it seems you’ve been writing about this for some time and I’ve missed a number of good posts. If it wouldn’t take much time, could you … Continue reading →
There’s been a lot of praise for a prepared speech Donald Trump gave last night in North Carolina that emphasized his role as a voice for the common man/woman against a corrupt elite. That’s a good approach, I think, in … Continue reading →
Several commenters have pointed out that Trump made a speech recently that appealed to black voters. Here’s how commenter Richard Saunders describes it, for example: Trump makes the best speech of the campaign, and is the one of the first, … Continue reading →
You may have noticed—really, it was hard not to notice—that one of yesterday’s posts got a link that drew a great many pro-Trump commenters here to express in various angry ways the idea that my post was insufficiently Trump-philic. I … Continue reading →
Commenter Geoffrey Britain writes: The press feeling so free to attack Trump is a reaction to the common perception that his positions are so far “beyond the pale”. That perception is in turn, a perfect barometer of how far astray … Continue reading →