Posted on 09/25/2015 11:14:04 AM PDT by Steelfish
Four Easy Steps for Beating Donald Trump by HENRY OLSEN September 25, 2015.
The Republican elites are all in a Twitter titter about whether Donald Trump can be defeated. They needn’t worry. Beating Trump will be as easy as counting backward from four to one.
Four bankruptcies, three wives, two parties, one big problem for America. That six-second tagline to an ad sums up why, when the chips are down, the Donald’s getting fired. This mantra will take Trump down because his appeal rests on trust. Voters angry with elites for various reasons trust that Trump will have their backs in office. But the 4-3-2-1 line of attack shows why exactly the opposite is true.
“Four bankruptcies” will shake Trump’s support among the key Republican faction, the establishment conservative. These voters tend to be small-business people and middle-range executives, and nothing is more important to them than stability of character. Their businesses and careers depend on being able to count on employees to come to work, contractors to pay their bills, and bosses to treat them fairly.
Trump’s bankruptcies are poison for these voters because they were all strategic moves that threw people like them under the bus. When the chips were down, Trump sacrificed his business allies to keep his millions and start over. Nothing will scare a small-business person or an executive more than the thought that there but for the grace of God go I.
“Three wives” are also, at heart, about trust rather than morality. To be sure, Christian conservatives looking at Trump should worry about a man who has twice been in violation of Jesus’ prohibition (Matthew 19:5–9, if Mr. Trump would like the Bible verse) against divorce except in cases of sexual immorality. But women in general will also be turned off by Trump’s romantic antics. They might well wonder whether his relationships with women are a positive indication that he will he be faithful and attentive to their political needs through thick and thin. The story of Carolyn Kepcher reinforces both lines of attack. A brainy, beautiful blond, Carolyn was the real breakout star from the early seasons of The Apprentice. But according to press reports, Trump could bear no one but himself gaining public adulation, so he fired her in favor of his daughter, Ivanka. The lesson was clear: Anyone can be fired if it helps The Donald.
Repeat after me: four bankruptcies, three wives, two parties, one big problem for America. “Two parties” points out for loyal Republicans and movement conservatives alike that Trump treats parties and policy positions like toys to be used and discarded at his pleasure.
He’s been a Democrat, an independent, a Republican, and briefly sought the Reform-party nomination for president in 2000. He’s been pro-choice and pro-life, pro-Clinton and anti-Clinton, pro–single payer and anti-Obamacare. There’s neither rhyme nor reason for his shifts: The only thing that explains them is his constant pursuit of the one thing that really matters, the glory of Donald Trump. All of these facts add up to one big problem for America.
Most of Trump’s backers believe that the biggest thing wrong about America is that no one in government is working for them. But Trump isn’t the elite guy who’s switched sides, he’s the elite guy par excellence whose pursuit of his own wealth and fame leaves everyone else in the dust. He’s not only not the solution to America’s problems, he’s the biggest embodiment of those problems.
Trump will still have his backers after this barrage, but someone who has risen fast can also fall fast. About one sixth of the GOP electorate has gone from disliking Trump six weeks ago to liking him now. This soft support is the difference between an annoying but harmless Trump sitting at 15–18 percent and a terrifying Trump sitting at 30–35 percent. These lines of attack will remind soft supporters exactly why their initial instincts about the Donald were right.
Repeat after me: four bankruptcies, three wives, two parties, one big problem for America. Say it enough times, and soon we’ll be talking about who among the remaining contenders can fill the big man’s shoes. —
Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the co-author of the forthcoming book The Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination (Palgrave, November 2015).
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424613/donald-trump-defeated-four-steps
I hope Trump runs third-party if he or Ted Cruz do not get the Republican nomination. If that is the case, it will not matter if Trump makes the Texas ballot or not because all Trump needs to do is make sure the GOPe’er is defeated.
I do not care if Hillary, or Joe Biden, or Elizabeth Warren, or John Kerrey, or Bernie Sanders wins the presidency as long as the GOPe’er does not.
The ELITES have shown their true colors. They are no different than the RATs. At least the RATs wear their colors out in the open!
There is only one step needed for beating Donald Trump, and that is to let Donald Trump keep talking. He will bring himself down.
OK thanks National Review and I wont be voting for Trump in November-— 2015, that is.. Satisfied now Low-rely Richy?
OK so he as SOME good points ;)
My question is who in their right mind would trust Trump? I know the author is saying conservatives have been betrayed so often...but perhaps they trust him because there’s nothing conservative about him, either politically or personally, so they know what they’re getting.
Donald Trump did not stand by and allow a disabled young woman be s starved and dehydrated to death so her husband and his mistress with whom he had 2 children could inherit her fortune, a fortune by the way, which was supposed to be used for her rehabilitation and her care. No matter how many bankruptcies, no matter how many marriages, could ever compare to the immorality of this!
Four Easy Steps to Beating Donald Trump:
1. Take several billion dollars of your own money to run your campaign - so that you will be free of outside influence.
2. Run as a republican, but have no significant republican connections in your past.
3. Go to the best business school in the country and use you education to create several successful businesses.
4. Obtain a personality that doesn’t allow any attacks to stick to you. That same personality should also be able to attack the PC culture that has infected America.
There. Those are four easy steps.
Ritchie got his knockers in a twist , because Megyn Kelly is upset with Trump.
No more FOX, RINO, establishment crap, or these pansy men.
Whoever Henry Olsen is, he’s really reaching. At this point, Americans are likely to overlook a lot to get someone they believe to be a real American and not a slick, neat, “articulate” and well-dressed politician who’ll blow a load of sunshine up their backsides.
This guy recommends - more smear tactics. Brilliant.
Not likely at this point.. Look at all the crapola they have already thrown at Trump and he’s still in the lead.
I believe you refer to John Elliot Boosh (¡Heb!) and his soul-damning refusal to help Terri Schiavo, which he had the authority to do.
Shouldn’t National Review stay out of this process - it’s like they are trying to eliminate a candidate that the people like - hopefully they will get kicked in the butt perhaps with their own BK.
What a maroon.
Not you. Henry What’s-his-name.
The uniparty mouthpiece speaks again. Maybe Trump could be defeated by a candidate that was pro America instead of pro cronyism.
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