Trump supporters remind me of the Osgood character in “Some Like It Hot.” You remember: Point out Trump’s manifest and myriad flaws? Trump supporters always have an answer. All the other candidates who have held public office have a political … Continue reading →
It’s not as though the Trump University fraud trial was unknown till recently. It had just gotten lost in the shuffle of so many other things. I went back to see what I had previously written about it, and I … Continue reading →
…and were too weary to ask. Well, maybe not everything. But plenty. Please take a look. Excerpts (this was written in 2014): The supreme court of New York ruled earlier that Trump University, now renamed Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, LLC, is … Continue reading →
My “note” at the end of this post has engendered quite a bit of discussion about Trump’s remarks accusing Judge Gonzalo Curiel of bias. First, let me repeat a bit of what I wrote there: Trump’s “racist” comment about the … Continue reading →
I noticed that a prominent Trump facilitator and a prominent Trump shill are rather unhappy with Trump’s recent comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel. The facilitator is Joe Scarborough: After months of amiable interviews and a report that their “friendship” was … Continue reading →
Every day there’s some new outrage from Donald Trump and/or Hillary Clinton. That’s almost a given, and it’s something we have grown used to. “Grown used to” can segue into “grown complacent about.” But I’m not complacent—nor do I think … Continue reading →
Much has been written about the fact that the 2016 election is shaping up as an unpopularity contest rather than the more ordinary popularity contest. That is, the candidate who has managed to offend a bit less is likely to … Continue reading →
This post at Red State by Brandon Morse points out something Donald Trump said recently that is both troubling and Obama-like (is that redundant?): Politicians have used you and stolen your votes. They have given you nothing. I will give … Continue reading →
This post is not about Donald Trump. It’s about coverage of Donald Trump. Remember last summer, when his candidacy was new? Pundits, bloggers, and commenters kept using the phrase “Trump sucks all the air out of the room” to express … Continue reading →
People on the right who refuse to vote for Donald Trump are commonly met with the response that they must then bear some responsibility for electing Hillary Clinton, and that as they watch her presidency unfold they will have to … Continue reading →
On the surface—in personality and speech characteristics—Donald Trump is nothing like Barack Obama. In fact, you might say he’s the un-Obama. Obama’s most salient characteristics (at least, as his supporters and the press see him) include being smooth, intellectual, and … Continue reading →
I clearly remember when I first became truly alarmed during Obama’s 2008 campaign. Originally I didn’t know much about Obama, and slowly but surely began to notice warning signs that he might be worse than the garden-variety liberal Democratic candidate … Continue reading →