I’m going out on a limb here as the first American (I’m sure Freepers will correct me if there is another one) to predict Donald Trump will win - not only the Republican nomination but the White House.
OK, Trump is obnoxious: so what? That is only a drawback if you’re a leftist. Healthy, clear-thinking, red-blooded Americans do not care if their leader is outspoken, if he can get the job done.
We are not effete psuedo-intellectual Old Europe, as Democrats long to be. We don’t want to be molly-coddled and lied to by people with perfect hair. Real Americans don’t care about hair. On the left they do, but I mean normal people.
Our country is very different from how I remember it in the 1970’s, but there are similarities. There is a “silent majority” out there who’s strongest political sentiment is “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more!”
Like Reagan, Trump makes a direct appeal to the downtrodden middle class people who are paying for the underclass and being ripped off by the upper class.
Trump is no Reagan, true. But the appeal of both is the same, the “outsider” or non-political operative charging in with something we have not heard in a very long time: the truth. People might just rally to it... if they recognize it.
Many have. But you are very new.
Trump isn't perfect but he is what we haven't had in a long time.... a successful man that loves America, knows how to find the right people to get the job done and never lets anyone steam roll him into a apology or silence.
He would absolutely do a better job then all but possibly Cruz.
2tipsea you are spot on! If you or others saw Greta yesterday asking Evan Bayh (dem senator ret.)you will have seen the epitome of the Washington political mafia....the face of most politicians today. His rhetoric was so parsed, so politically correct, as to be embarrassing.....who believes that political rot anymore....apparently most of the country if the last two elections were not rigged...that is why Trump, Cruz and a few others have caught the imagination of people seeking honest leaders.