Posted on 09/21/2015 10:40:01 AM PDT by Steelfish
Donald Trump Has One Credential, and It Appears to Be Soft
by Neal B. Freeman. September 21, 2015.
All of us New Yorkers of a certain age remember Fred Trump. For several decades, he was the go-to guy for the city’s middle class. In a vast archipelago stretching across the “outer boroughs,” he built single-family homes, lots of them, and clusters of apartment buildings, whole villages of them. Fred’s projects were “affordable housing” in the anodyne sense of that ominous phrase. A Trump home may have had few frills, but it was well built and well maintained. The neatly trimmed lawns were posted with signs scolding, “Positively No Ball Playing Allowed.” Fred was a legendarily hard worker, a nickel pincher, and, by most accounts, a straight shooter.
And so in the predictable order of things — this was 20th-century America, after all — Fred became a financial success, so much so, in fact, that his son Donald would become while still in short pants one of the richest kids in the country. When young Donald came of age and entered the family business, he learned quickly, and well. He glowed in the reflection of the family’s sterling reputation. He plugged into Fred’s citywide network of contractors, politicians, lobbyists, and bankers. The striving son seemed to be on track to succeed the founding father.
But after a few squabbles it became apparent that a durable partnership between the two strong-willed men was not meant to be. The basic problem was that Donald was not an outer-borough kind of guy. He wanted to take Manhattan, but not the Bronx and Staten Island, too. He grew antsy in Fred’s boxy little office in Coney Island. For his part, Fred could never bring himself to stamp his buildings with a giant, gold-leaf T.
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Awww...NRO hit piece
Donald’s not Proletarian enuff for the elitists at National Review!
NPO...New Progressives Online
Another appeal to the supposedly divine authority of the True Church of Conservatism (domiciled in the U.S.Chamber of Commerce headquarters) by its anointed priest class in its efforts to bring back into the fold the heretics who have been bewitched by the heresy of Trump.
Does George Will of the Washington Post approve of this message? If he’s against it, I’m probably for it.
The Dad shoots for the moon...
The Son takes that, builds upon that, and shoots for the stars....
And only brain dead communist scumbags in the MSM have a problem with that, along with their government lackeys and cronies.
Go figure.
Trump has support from conservatives because he will wreak havoc and maybe, just maybe he is a real conservative. That is all I need. What I need is some hope and Trump gives me some and except Cruz no one else comes close.
What the heck is there to lose?
Most of them embody failure and cowardice.
If this author would ask me, I might try to get OJ out of the
pokey to try to find a few conservatives.
The LSM/establishment just cannot STAND it that Trump has exposed them! They are naked and ugly and Trump continues to fight and beat them! WHAP! WHAP! Whap!
I think a lot of Trumps appeal comes from the hope that he is as sick and tired of over-reaching gubmint bureaucracy that he has undoubtedly encountered in all of his massive projects. And isn’t that the essence of the Tea Party? Taxation without representation. I have never thought that the Tea party was a conservative movement, but a limited government movement, with the supporters being the little people who the government runs roughshod over on a daily basis.
This week’s opening application for the Wile E. Coyote Frustration Award is murky and “cute” but not very good. “NEXT!”
N.r.o. carrying g.o.p.e. water.
I have personally come up against this officious attitude in a number of my own ventures, and write from experience.
For example, here is an article--much more recent--which I wrote on the late Norman Cousins, and his effort to destroy American sovereign independence, Surrender By Subterfuge. In late 1961, I tried to run an add offering to provide flyers, at the price of printing, to any group in any town, in which Cousins was scheduled to speak, as a handout, to answer Cousins' approach. We had already proven the item to counteract much of his effect, in mass meetings of local public school teachers--NEA type affiliates--in Cincinnati & Richmond Virginia.
Buckley's-sister was happy to accept the add, but Bill vetoed it as being a personal attack on Cousins. Well, it was that; but the ultimate question is whether it was a fair attack. Cousins was not entitled to be protected from attack by Conservatives opposed to his efforts to promote World Government--certainly not by the then leading Conservative voice in Academia.
But that was Buckley's politically correct side in the early 1960s. He never completely got over it.
NRO has grown more and more isolated lately, and increasingly defensive. Stories such as their daily Trump hit pieces, and David French’s odd whines about the word “cuckservative” have at least as many replies deleted as are kept. Someone in the NR inner sanctum must be muttering “The natives are revolting!”
End result is Donald Trump built things and did not tear down like the democrat party.
Can't be that novel, since Whitman and Fiorina, at least, have done it before Trump. Author totally loses credibility with that one line.
If one reads “Art of the Deal” you’ll get the real lowdown of the relationship between Trump and his father...not the opinion of someone who knows neither one...
was doing some research. Did you know DT went to the CANADIANS to build the rink? He’s a globalist! LOL
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