Killing Camelot: How Trump is Smashing the Style of the Political Elite with his Character & Honesty

9/20/2016 | Pocono Pundit

[Big Giant Head]

Trump has never held public office before. The idea that someone would make his first serious foray into politics in a presidential run sounds outlandish to all of the career politicians who have run this country into the ground.

Succinct, spot on, quotable. Twitter-able, even.

[poconopundit]

Thanks, Reagan80 and thanks to everyone who liked the story and/or commented.

Too bad the traditional "print" outlet, the National Review, is gone over to the dark side.

Besides, Free Republic is the ideal place to publish for so many reasons:

• The intelligent, interesting, and witty commentary you get on FR is quite extraordinary.
  
  
• As a vanity author, you get the freedom to use any format, font, color and picture layout you want because it's all HTML.
  
  
• Google gives FR articles wide exposure even though it earns no advertising revenue from it.  This article appears on the first page of the keywords Trump and Camelot.
  
  
• Also, Google Images almost always picks up the GIMP digital mashups I produce for FR vanities such as the one I wrote comparing Ben Franklin and Trump.  Or Trump and Titanic.
  
  
• My vanities are collected in one place on FR so anybody who wants to find them can. Also in Google you can find them with keywords like Ulysses Trump free republic
  
  

[poconopundit]

I like this notion of “rugged individual”. It echoes Ayn Rand and I think that’s more in tune with a president like Teddy Roosevelt perhaps.

[AFreeBird]

I like it.

[poconopundit]

I watched him in Mexico, he has that look and then a smile and a hand shake, but don't under estimate him, he can bite like a ‘viper’ but give you all he has the next minute...

Ouch!  Now look at what you've done. My hand is now oozing metaphorical blood.  Love it, HL27.  So true.

[poconopundit]

But now the machine is starting to wobble. If things continue, it WILL break down, and then the politicians will see exactly what money is good for when it can’t buy anything.

Beautiful, Luirin.

You touched on a key theme that people have not been talking about -- politicians casually throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery of our economic system.

To a politician, a law that regulates an industry is nothing more than ink on a piece of paper.  But that one law could cause a vital gear in the machinery to wobble and muck up the whole works.

Then, since industries are dependent on one another, you can destabilize the society itself.  This is actually what's happening today!

Law enforcement is another mechanism of our society. And if Hillary gets off scot free for her national security breeches, you have damaged the rule of law.  Same goes for when a president praises the Black Lives Matter supremacists and fails to back the police.  Well, the long range effect of that is to damage the will of your average policeman to risk his life to protect people.

Much more needs to be said about this machinery tampering idea.

[poconopundit]

Nice Vision indeed. Makes a lot of sense. Thank you.

[poconopundit]

V K, good stuff.  Too bad the good Angel didn't talk about the 4th Peril -- the disintegration of the country, not by foreign armies, but by a steady decay in the character of individual citizens.

This is the time Ben Franklin worried about and is mentioned in my tagline.

Trump is the God's plan to save us from the 4th Peril.

[V K Lee]

:-)

[V K Lee]

When children have nightmares they cry out for their parents to console and kill the demons. Mommy or daddy to rush in to comfort and drive the monster into the closet to destroy it.

Perhaps TRUMP is a daddy figure to AMERICANS who awake from a long nightmare. We look for him to slay the beast and console as best he is able. Much like his own children and grandchildren. NIGHTMARES are not real...neither or monsters (remembering an ALIEN movie where SW saves NEWT from the mommy ALIEN

[pgkdan]

Great post. Thanks for pinging me to it.

[poconopundit]

Thanks. This theme of Trump as a father figure needs to get more legs. People can relate to this idea.

[GOP Poet]

Fantastic post poconopundit!!

[pax_et_bonum]

Thank you very much, poconopundit, for posting this.

For anyone who may be interested, I went to see him a couple of weeks ago and I’ll share the impressions I now have of President-elect Trump.

I wanted to see him in person and to be close enough to see his eyes because I wanted to be able to pick up on any “red flags” which could signal a discrepancy between his words and his facial expressions and body language.

We got to the rally very early and I was able to stand in the third row slightly left of center in the mosh pit. ;-).

For about a week after the rally I considered and mulled over my experience and experiment then I shared with my husband my finalized impressions of then-candidate Trump. Interestingly, my husband told me that his impressions were the same.

My impressions are this:

Body language: perfectly in accord with his message. If he’s acting, he’s better than Cary Grant. ;-) Seriously, there was no hint which I could pick up of anything less than forthrightness and openness.

Facial expression, eyes: high intelligence, shrewdness, resignation, and resolve.

Finally, excessive ego: none. No kidding. (By the way, these are MY impressions and flamers will be ignored.)

For the record, I already liked him very much before seeing him at the rally, but it’s practically impossible for me to trust anyone 100% or to support any political candidate 100%. There’s a strong part of me that is always testing the other person’s integrity.

I believe Donald Trump will be one of our greatest presidents.

pax

[Albion Wilde]

Perhaps Trump's son Eric said it best when he said his Dad is kind of billionaire blue collar guy.

Just an FYI, that was Don Jr who said it, in a tv interview.

[poconopundit]

Great, pax.  Very inspiring to hear your personal encounter with Trump.  Glad to hear your first positive impressions were confirmed.

I suppose we've been fooled so many times by politicians and other people that it takes a long time to build true trust. Emerson was fascinated by this human need to look people in the eye...

Eyes are bold as lions, -- roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near.  They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction.  What breadth of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another, through them!  The glance is natural magic.  The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.  You can read in the eyes of your companion, whether your argument hits him, though his tongue will not confess it.

Each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it.  A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.  Whoever looked on him would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and universal.  The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Wealth from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev. 1876)

[pax_et_bonum]

Thanks for your response.

Eloquent and insightful quote from Emerson.

:-)

[V K Lee]

Agree with Milo in referring to POTUS as ‘daddy’. Your observations, very astute. Might POTUS, spur more fathers to follow suit? If Only! Boys-young men, deserve a father such as he. Unfortunately these dads are few and far between even if there at all.

[AFreeBird]

I like it!

[poconopundit]

Thanks. It’s nice to see our confidence in Trump back in 2016 turned out to be justified.