I’m not fan of Trump. I think he’s much more liberal than most here believe. However, this sort of comment doesn’t advance the argument:
“I, on the other hand, find him tedious, tacky, and trite. He’s a bore who overcompensates for his insecurities by talking about how awesome he is, often in the third person.”
I’m pretty sure Jonah and most of the folks at National Review wouldn’t feel comfortable around me and my family. I’m also pretty sure I’m more conservative than the NRO crowd.
I wish Jonah could have gotten past his style comments and focused simply on things like:
“Trump: You have to give them a path. You have 20 million, 30 million, nobody knows what it is. It used to be 11 million. Now, today I hear it’s 11, but I don’t think it’s 11. I actually heard you probably have 30 million. You have to give them a path, and you have to make it possible for them to succeed. You have to do that.”
As it is, nancy-boy Jonah has probably created more Trump fans than anything else. He doesn’t get it - many of us don’t WANT Jonah’s admiration! If Jonah admired us, we’d be ashamed of ourselves!
Goldberg is mostly correctly.
But what he fails to see is that the popularity of Trump despite all the negatives he notes is that sign of how desperate and hungry the base is for someone, anyone, to stand strong.
Trump popularity did not skyrocket because he attacked illegal immigration, it skyrocketed because he attacked illegal immigration, got excoriated for it in the media and some losing some PC business contracts, and instead of pulling the typical spineless milquetoast Republican move of immediately retraction and apologizing for being alive, he actually defiantly continued to pound the same message even louder. That’s when the base warmed to him.
Because the base is desperate for someone who has some fight in him.
Mr. Wright,
A lot of us have been screwed over so often by “conservatives” who talked a good game, but once elected, they jumped in bed with the opposition.
Now, along comes Trump, whom I have disliked and distrusted in the past. So I scrutinized his every move, and parsed his every word in search of some indication of lack of commitment or disingenuousness. I did not detect any evidence of either; and believe me, my Mama named me right when she called me (doubting) Thomas.
Frankly, stupid as I might be, I think he’s gone too far to consider it a lark at some point and drop out because he got bored.
First of all, he’s taken these parents and loved ones of numerous victims of illegal aliens and given them his word of honor that he will not rest until that whole sorry situation is brought to a halt. Up to and including seeing that a fence is erected and enforced on the Mexican border.
Then he addressed 300+ Hollywood types at a “Friends of Abe” gathering and committed himself to the mission.
The he addressed a group of approximately 20,000 in Phoenix. And there, once more, he pledged that if he wins the nomination and gets elected he will follow through and DO the things the Boehners and the McConnells repeatedly promised to do but have totally abandoned once given an electoral majority.
The cherry on top for me was when a bereaved father, Mr. Shaw told how encouraged he and the other parents and loved ones are that Trump has stepped in and vowed to take a stand for them. Shaw went so far as to say that he now has multiple friends, some of them liberal democrats, who phone him to let him know if Trump is speaking on TV, and many of them pledging to vote for Trump.
So all the above being the case, I believe the only way Trump does not follow through is if the likes of Jebbie Bush defeats him for the nomination. To me, that’s like Pee Wee Herman going up against Joe Louis. There. I just dated myself.
Regards.
Trump is just stirring the pot, softening the media, opening a big whole for our nominee to Cruz to victory.
Oy Vey what a disaster, Trump is against globalism and immigration. He must be stopped.
Did the intervention work?