Everyone else is so far down the rabbit hole, in the meantime, that he's gaining traction.
Keep on speaking up Donald.
Of course he has a point and if he wasn’t such an idiot he could make it in a convincing wsy.
As I read somewhere last night, Trump’s appeal is ‘He can’t be bought and won’t back down’.
Right -It’s NOT that they aren’t literate in English... they can’t READ or WRITE in their own language...THEY WILL NEVER ASSIMILATE HERE!
Never thought of Mexico as even having a top 1%. We visited there in the early 70s. It was a hole. Sewage in the streets. Cops with machine guns on the beach. It’s all about our money. I really think they hate our guts because their own country has done nothing to bring them out of the dark ages.
Trump is our only hope for the future of the country we used to know as America.
Come down here to South Texas and you would think you are in a foreign country...mainly Mexico.
Assimilate? Adopt the American ways? Conform to the American customs? Obey law? Speak English? and on and on and on.
I was born down here 68 years ago and the Mexicans of old were generally hard working, law abiding and in general, good citizens. Crime was minimal. Come to 2015 and we are infested with criminal activity, young men don’t work, welfare is the free ride for over 60% of all Mexicans, general social manners have been totally forgotten and now with the new batch of criminals coming over the border we even enjoy the fact that they walk up our alleys going through our trash cans finding aluminum cans and any other thing that can be used to obtain cash...like credit card info and bank statements and other papers that may be a means to commit fraud.
There have been times in my life that I (and my family) were in dire straights but I took it upon myself to work harder, improve my skills and work my way out of it. That is something these people have no intention or will to do. Why? Simple, our welfare system that the American Mexicans use to live the good life off the backs of people like me is there for the illegals too!
In my opinion Trump is our only hope since our entire political system is too corrupt to fix itself.
I see no way Trump can get elected. He rubs too many on both sides of the political divide the wrong way. He seems all about the deal and his ego will lead him to trade *anything* just so he can be seen holding the winning hand in a deal, no matter how bad it is for eveyone else. And the only reason he cares about the deal is purely for the competition. As we have already seen, if his ego is even slightly bumped, he throws a fit like a child.
However, he will serve a useful purpose due to his celebrity status as the media will push his talking points to the forefront where they will be debated on camera or mic. Whoever does get elected will have to address the issues somewhere along the campaign and go on record with a position.
Here is how I see a Trump presidency:
Work hard
Get rich
Have fun
Teach your children to love America
I’ve been saying for the past 6 months (along with my tag line), that getting the WHITE VOTE is a winning strategy.
Cruz has come about as close as a Republican who still needs to raise money can get (maybe even closer). Trump doesn’t have that concern, and therefore he very well may be the next president.
Particularly if he anger Republican voters on other issues.
If the upper middle class was coming nobody would squawk about it.
So, why is he getting any traction at all?
Because he's tapping into people's anger and frustration at not just Democrats, but government in general. That anger is real and is just waiting for someone to come along and give voice to it.
And let's face it, angry people often do irrational things, such as back a guy like Trump just because he says one or two things that they can agree with. In Trump's case, hopefully the veneer will come off quickly and people will realize what a terrible idea it is to even have him considered a viable candidate, let alone someone they could vote for.
However, it is an object lesson that legitimate candidates would do well to learn. Be passionate, be loud, be angry. Just be able to back it up with real ideas and a way to channel that anger into a positive vision.