Posted on 03/15/2016 6:56:30 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Trump is crude and politically clueless, but no more so than the Clintons, Sanders — or Obama.
Donald J. Trump thus far has not shown that he has the level-headedness to be president. He has no political ideology and could just as well govern to the left of Hillary Clinton as to the right of her. Yet his sloppy way of speaking has earned him equally sloppy, over-the-top analogies — to Mussolini, Hitler, George Wallace, and a host of other populist and racist demagogues.
But is he uniquely dangerous, ignorant, or cruel in terms of either distant or recent American presidential history?
I don't think so.
There are many ways to assess Trump. The debates and rallies give us glimpses of his ill-preparedness (at least in comparison to his rivals). So far his vision has not transcended banalities and generalities. He seems to have no team of respected advisers, at least not yet. Indeed, at this point, advising Trump apparently would be a career-killer in the Boston–New York–Washington corridor. No one quite knows who talks to him on foreign policy. He is an empty slate onto which millions write their hopes and dreams, as “Make America great again” channels the empty “Hope and Change.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
VDH ping ...
It is worth the read.
“Donald J. Trump thus far has not shown that he has the level-headedness to be president. He has no political ideology and could just as well govern to the left of Hillary Clinton as to the right of her. Yet his sloppy way of speaking has earned him equally sloppy, over-the-top analogies”
Ok.
http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/
http://www.trump.com/hotel-collection/
http://www.trump.com/golf/
Trump has over 20K employees. People who write crap like what’s quoted NEVER take this into consideration and thus commit the logical fallacy of too few alternatives. It always kills their “point”.
I usually like VDH, but he has his head up his ass on this one.
NRO is starting to come around. They posted a defense of Trump. I disagree with their analysis because its based on the assumption that a left wing power class politically correct paradigm is valid. It is not.
Amazing that VDH has been an open advocate of stopping illegal immigration. However, with Trump, he forgets that sucks up his paycheck from NRO like the other Trump haters/hacks on NRO.
I would not vote for Donald Trump in the primary[meaning that he would vote for Trump in the general unlike other NRO'ers], given that I have no idea what he would do as president and thus most certainly hope he does not get the nomination. But he seems about on par with the current president, in terms of reckless speeches, inexperience, crudity, and cluelessness. Yet I don’t recall hearing that many in the Democratic party ever felt that Obama’s provocative and ignorant campaign utterances, along with his past associations with the likes of Tony Rezko, Revernd Wright, Bill Ayers, and Father Pfleger, had driven them to vote for a far more sober and judicious John McCain or Mitt Romney.
I think that a lot of Trump's success is the pendulum swinging back with a vengeance against the outrages of 0bama. Payback is hell ... and deserved.
Maybe it is better to not have a political ideology, other than fixing the damn thing.
Comparing Trump to George Wallace and Hitler goes way over the top. Seems like the Hitler reference gets dragged back out every four years to tag the GOP leader.
“Donald J. Trump thus far has not shown that he has the level-headedness to be president.”
Obama was level headed?
Neither. A sociopath.
I suppose VDH wants the same old career politician who has his nose buried up the asses of special interests. That has worked out so well for us. Trump might not have political experience but he does have experience in the real world.
VDH should be the first of the NRO crowd to come around. He has a visceral understanding of the consequences of open borders and of political correctness run amok. Maybe he doesn’t trust Trump to do what he’s promising, which is understandable, I don’t know if he’ll do it either, but I do know that the others will not.
You are right. History corrects itself and the pendulum is swinging back to the right in the USA and in Germany.
his sloppy way of speaking has earned him equally sloppy, over-the-top analogies — to Mussolini, Hitler, George Wallace, and a host of other populist and racist demagogues.But for #1 the resemblance in canny.Comparing Trump to George Wallace and Hitler goes way over the top.
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