To the nitwit who wrote this for the Huffington Post:
It is the function of an opposition party in a republic to be a resistance movement, especially when the party in power becomes intolerably tyrannical!
It's extremely sad that the GOP in Washington has been asleep over the past 6 1/2 years, so the resistance movement's leader (almost by default) is ironically an outsider who had shown little sign of resistance himself until about a month ago.
Good insight.
Look, I'm not a Trump fan. I think he's probably a megalomaniac and certainly not a conservative and I doubt he could win an election and think he's running for fun/attention. But I get why so many people are enthralled. Immigration is the hottest hot button issue, and who's the first one to take it up to the level it deserves? Trump. That's a sad indictment of the GOP "leaders".
Trump kinda reminds me of a milkman here in Illinois named Oberweis who once called social conservatives "The American Taliban", he flip flopped and became the a#1 foe of illegal immigration and some conservatives in this state are still obsessed with the idea of him as Governor or Senator even though he's a tremendous loser and chronic self-serving flip flopper. GOP leaders ignore the scope of the illegals problem and this is what happens. ANYONE who takes it seriously starts looking good to people. And Trump is several thousand times more charismatic than Oberweis.
I forget how this goes and where I heard it but the gist goes something like "When there is a dearth of leadership, people will follow anyone who makes an effort".
Thanks for the ping!
It is not serious to have this cartoon character Trump as the Tea Party resistance leader. Trump earlier criticized Mitt Romney’s more mild opposition to our anarchistic type borders as too extreme. Trump cleverly felt the pulse of the Republican electorate. I don’t trust him and if he decides to go the third party route, he can really help Hillary Clinton, whom he supported in the past.
he’s destined to become as great a reistance fighter as General Benedict Arnold.