Posted on 10/09/2015 2:31:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SORRENTO, Italy--What's going on with Donald Trump? And why is he leading the field of Republican presidential candidates?
These are the questions I've been asked most frequently during my trip to Europe to promote my new book, "Celebrity in Chief: A History of the Presidents and the Culture of Stardom." Three dozen people to whom I've spoken individually this week did not represent a scientific sample but they were consistent in their perceptions.
They showed a strong sense of unease, and sometimes deep concern, at Trump's rise and puzzlement that the bombastic real-estate developer is doing so well. Many political strategists, pundits and everyday Americans in the United States feel the same way. Polls indicate that Trump leads the Republican presidential field with about 23 percent of the GOP vote, according to Real Clear Politics.
The folks to whom I talked, traveling Americans and citizens from other countries who are affluent, well-informed and interested in U.S. politics, can't believe that Trump is the front-runner. "He has no ideas," aside from his pledge to build a wall between the United States and Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants, said a businessman from Orange County, California who is active in Republican politics. The businessman would prefer that Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida run as a team, with Christie as the Republican presidential nominee and Rubio as the vice presidential candidate....
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Very simple:
The Democrats represent the illegal aliens.
The GOP represents their employers
No one represents the citizens.
Enter Trump
In this piece the “baffled” types are the Amnesty supporters.
Well Americans have wondered for decades how Europeans are such sheep that they are willingly, mindlessly, following their Socialist masters into cultural, and demographic, extinction.
Of course they wonder. They sold themselves and their countries decades ago.
Same Eurotrash that loved Obama and gave his the Nobel ‘Peace’ prize.
Collects random quotes from people he runs into.
Calls it an article.
Writes from Italy and is too stupid to know who they elected prime minister a few years back.
Comparison of Trump and Berlusconi is what he could have written if he weren't a moron.
Might have been worth reading.
That sums it up
Christie and Rubio my a$$!
Ditto—
That is EXACTLY the problem with both parties.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it summed up quite as succinctly before.
That is exactly the problem, with both parties. And that is exactly why Trump is going to win.
“Europe, you’re fired!” I’d be nervous too.
They are ignorant elites. They have no understanding of the real world.
They want population control so they won't be bothered with us masses.
Their bafflement is not my concern.
“He has no ideas”
This is what is referred to in linguistics as an “elliptical sentence”. It’s short for “He has no ideas that I approve of”.
I think he just imagined what Pauline Kael would write.
That's okay, everyone is baffled by Obama.
Seriously, I don't think people in the US know how badly America's standing with its allies has fallen in the last six years and a half years of Obama. America, post WW II, has always been seen as a shining light of freedom and prosperity. An example, in many ways, to other nations. A great friend and ally, and an enemy that you didn't want to challenge.
That is all changing. America's allies are all wondering just how strong their alliance is. Germany is a prime example. Modern Germany is virtually an American invention. West Germany was cobbled together, and protected, by the USA with some help from wartime allies. The freedom of West Berlin was maintained almost solely through American political and military will. Eventually the Berlin wall fell and Germany was reunited through direct acts and policy of the US.
In return Germany became a strong American ally. Under the American defense umbrella Germany became an economic powerhouse. It was also a member of NATO and a bulwark against Russian expansion. Enter Obama. One of his first foreign trips was to Berlin to tell the Germans how great he was. It has been downhill ever since for German-American relations. Can Germany depend on the US if Russian tanks move across the Ukrainian steppes? Does Berlin still dance to Washington's tune?
America's relationship with every single ally has followed the same downhill course. With the UK Obama's first move was to send back Churchill's bust. With Canada, Obama has refused to okay the Keystone pipeline for six years. I could go on and on about the Keystone debacle but I will mention one anecdote. I don't think there are two nations on Earth that are closer than the US and Canada. They share cultural and legal values. The economies are virtually integrated. People move across the border easily as do goods of all kinds. Canada is America's largest trading partner. The US trades more with Ontario than with Japan. And yet, because of Keystone, and other issues the US ambassador in Ottawa is virtually persona non grata. No one in the Canadian government will talk to him. Bet you haven't seen that on the evening news.
This is how bad things are within the Anglosphere. Extrapolate that throughout the rest of the world and being baffled by Trump is nothing.
European socialists don’t understand a billionaire American capitalist?
They’re like snails trying to figure out an eagle.
No surprise at their bewilderment, given the suicidal effort to destroy European character by inviting millions of barbarian migrants & voluntarily redistributing their personal wealth to a population with no intention of assimilating or becoming productive beyond the destruction of the status quo.
Indeed, those who lower their national flags rather than offend members of the culture of perpetualyl offended, demand their soldiers remove uniform components rather than molest the wretched sensibilities of the enemy within. Of course, those who remove pork & suggestive vegitation from every publicly served menu to accomodate doctrinal standards of a hostile minority.
Of course these cowards who hide their patriotism and loyalty remain bewildered by an American political candidate whose love of country, it's military and national pride and patriotism. Such sentiments are foreign to cowards.
Make America Great Again!
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