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Conrad Black: The genius of Donald Trump
National Post ^ | July 23, 2016 | Conrad Black

Posted on 07/24/2016 6:56:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Even in the week that he is nominated by the Republican party for the presidency of the United States, intelligent people fail in droves to understand what Donald Trump has accomplished

It was disappointing the editorial in this newspaper on Tuesday that “a Trump presidency would be a descent into the uncertainties of anger, bitterness, and division … a recipe for disaster.” This is a widespread view, but it is bunk.

Senator Marco Rubio observed as he left the race, having been bombed by almost a million votes in his home state by Trump (who, remember, had no “ground game”), “There was a tsunami coming that no one except Mr. Trump saw.”

These wailing commentators should be asking why the powers that be of both parties didn’t lift a finger while 12 million illegals flooded into the country, and why the authors of these fiascos, after 60 years of triumph over the Great Depression, Nazism, Japanese imperialism and international communism, suddenly became an elite of idiots who could not run a two-car funeral, apart from the expertise and courage of the armed forces, mis-deployed though they were.

The U.S. and the world could do much worse and the media, whom Donald has rightly taken to the woodshed to the general delight of the public, should stop wringing its hands and report more perceptively and equably this performance of great virtuosity in the greatest circus of all, which has caught them all with unclean hands and their pants down. Vulgar, corrupt, banal and half-mad though it is, America remains magnificent in a way, and absorbs the world’s attention; we’re all still watching.

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1 posted on 07/24/2016 6:56:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
intelligent people fail in droves to understand what Donald Trump has accomplished

I love Conrad, but he needs to o proof-read what he writes. The word is spelled "i-g-n-o-r-a-n-t," Mr. Black.

2 posted on 07/24/2016 7:01:12 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

LMAO!


3 posted on 07/24/2016 7:03:35 AM PDT by Gargantua ("President Trump... nice ring to it..." ;^)
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To: AndyJackson

Bam.
Ba-bam-bam-bam.
Thank you for schooling yet another elitist who thinks he can speak for everyone else and knows what we think and how to best articulate what we have to say.
Talk about ignorant!


4 posted on 07/24/2016 7:04:51 AM PDT by connyankee (Ppl all over the world join hands on the Trumptrain, Trumptrain!)
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To: connyankee
My remark was tongue in cheek. It is a good article.

Best is the WP picture of Hillary. It is a keeper:


5 posted on 07/24/2016 7:08:04 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Hojczyk

“suddenly became an elite of idiots who could not run a two-car funeral,”

Lobbyist money will do that to you.


6 posted on 07/24/2016 7:09:00 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: AndyJackson

Fearfully looking over her shoulder ‘cause the Trump Train is coming!


7 posted on 07/24/2016 7:17:10 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: Hojczyk

“What the world has witnessed, but has not recognized it yet, has been a campaign of genius. No one in history has come from an apolitical background to take over complete control of one of the great American political parties. World-historic generals, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower, were recruited by party grandees. Newspaper publisher Horace Greeley for the Democrats (1872), and utilities executive and lawyer Wendell Willkie for the Republicans (1940), were nominated, but they won narrowly, did not take over the party organization or put the party elders to flight, and had no chance of winning (against Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt)


8 posted on 07/24/2016 7:18:44 AM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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To: AndyJackson

"Kaine! Botox syringes! Now!!"


9 posted on 07/24/2016 7:22:56 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: AndyJackson
Best is the WP picture of Hillary. It is a keeper:

Sure is. I should print a bunch of those up and post them around the property. Scare the coyotes and bears away. Might attract skunks though...

10 posted on 07/24/2016 7:23:59 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: headstamp 2

Ignorance and stupidity explains some of the goings on in the beltway, but there are plenty of evil people there who know exactly what they are doing.

Their goal is the destruction of the USA so that a one world government (and its politically connected insiders) can stomp its boot in our face.


11 posted on 07/24/2016 7:30:51 AM PDT by cgbg (Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
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To: Hojczyk

“Vulgar, corrupt, banal and half-mad though it is, America remains magnificent in a way, and absorbs the world’s attention; we’re all still watching.”

This is Black’s Canuck way of admitting the superiority of the land south of their border and Trump’s people in it.


12 posted on 07/24/2016 7:35:25 AM PDT by DrPretorius
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The National Post used to be a very good read when Mr. Black was at the helm. Today it is almost unreadable as Mr. Black himself alludes to....


13 posted on 07/24/2016 7:37:39 AM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believe�.but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Ammonia hasn’t kept the bears away this summer, and I would consider putting this Hildebeast picture on the garbage, but I fear the garbage truck would refuse to touch it. ;-)


14 posted on 07/24/2016 7:38:22 AM PDT by cgbg (Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
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Small hands! :>)

Seriously, the vast majority of the media and political “elites” have no understanding of who DJT really is, how he is really just a regular, patriotic guy - with a lot of common sense and smarts - who is simply sick of the corruption of ALL of our political system and how that corruption is destroying millions of lives. He created a multi-billion dollar empire by understanding the economy and trends VERY well, and he can see the end of this great nation if we don’t dramatically change course, and do so very soon. He is Everyman, but finally one of us with the resources and the guts to stand up to the corrupt elites.

Come to think of it, they understand him perfectly...and they are afraid, very afraid. I celebrate this and enjoy it more every day, as it becomes increasingly clear that Trump will be our next President.


15 posted on 07/24/2016 7:47:09 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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I certainly hope that Trump’s vision will prevail in America and all I can do is exercise my right to vote and cast that vote in November for Donald J. Trump.


16 posted on 07/24/2016 8:15:39 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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To: Hojczyk

These wailing commentators should be asking why the powers that be of both parties didn’t lift a finger while 12 million illegals flooded into the country, and why the authors of these fiascos, after 60 years of triumph over the Great Depression, Nazism, Japanese imperialism and international communism, suddenly became an elite of idiots who could not run a two-car funeral,

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They aren’t idiots. They are crooks, and most of the bad things happening to America are intentional.


17 posted on 07/24/2016 8:17:28 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Hojczyk

Best part of Trump is.the decisive defeat of the establishment uniparty, especially the pro law breaking part (WSJ).


18 posted on 07/24/2016 8:35:16 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (This posting is a microaggression.)
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To: AndyJackson

Shades of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars! Hilariously hideous!


19 posted on 07/24/2016 8:39:40 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: COBOL2Java

"IF YOU ONLY KNEW THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE!!!


20 posted on 07/24/2016 8:57:02 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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