Trump is main street, despite his money. There is a segment of the cucumber sandwich Republican bunch that despises Trump for being a commoner who speaks too bluntly about many things.
I suspect VDH is one of these, a conservative who just doesn’t want the crude man in the club making everyone uncomfortable.
This is in contrast with those who fear Trump because he threatens to expose the corruption and cheating that keeps them in power and employed.
The problem is that the very reserve that makes for proper conversation in the club is essentially helpless against the sort of corrupt, vile behavior that Team Clinton and the Uniparty engage in.
The vile bastards that steal the furniture from the State Department, sell out the middle class for big foreign money, leave Americans to die to guard a reelection bid and collude with the press to hide it all are only going to be stopped by a man who can look them in the eye and call them out as the dirty rotten sons of bitches the are, and the sensibilities of the proper upper crust be damned.
VDH reminds me of some of the brilliant officers I served under, but sometimes the situation calls for a foul mouthed Mustang or NCO who makes up for a lack of ten dollar words by letting his actions speak for him. That’s Trump.
Eloquently stated, and of course true, to the letter.
The shiny, polished guys and gals, all steeped in silver tongue, long on experience, after greasing all the right skids to get there have so damaged the Republic that there was no fear among those on the ground that a brash outsider could possibly do worse. Especially one already proven an extraordinary success who rose in the real world by his own steam to become a billionaire at least a few times over.
Donald will fit the role he is in. Right now he is in a street fight. As president, I can’t imagine anyone in the White House so elegant as he, and Mrs. TRUMP.
I don't get VDH this time around. He splits his time between the Hoover Institution at Stanford and a family farm in central California, and has often railed about the collapse of American civilization from the vantage point of a long-time conservative citizen increasingly encroached on by lawless "immigrants". More than most, he should understand the important of taking a stand and building the wall. Unfortunately, his National Review country-clubbing colleagues seem to have gotten the better of him. It is said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, so choose carefully. VDH didn't.