I like your analysis!
I believe that a majority of both liberals and conservatives in this country are scared to death that we are currently being invaded by peoples who hate America. People of different political persuasions are united by this fear for our country. Trump has addressed this forcefully and has been willing to face the consequences. Everyone else has sounded more like mealy mouthed politicians who won't actually do anything about it.
People also see our influence in the world in rapid decline. Our way of life in peril and the future of our children and grandchildren in ruin. Trump is the one who has tapped into these fears and I believe despite the media and political elite's desire to have him disappear; he is here to stay.
“I believe that a majority of both liberals and conservatives in this country are scared to death that we are currently being invaded by peoples who hate America. People of different political persuasions are united by this fear for our country.”
You could very well be right about this. I don’t know to what extent trump may appeal to liberals, but one has to believe that there are liberals out there who do still love America, at least I hope there is.
His poll numbers indicate that he has definitely tapped into and harnessed something, and the other candidates haven’t.
He seems to have a quality the others do not. Natural leadership.
He shoots from the hip because he is confident in his aim.
The others offer mostly canned pre-practiced responses that you hear at any many or even all of their other appearances as if they are reciting from a script they memorized.
I swear, if I hear Kasich say his dad was a mailman one more time, I’m going to throw up.
If I hear Marco Rubio tell me of his family coming to America one more time, BARF!
That might make a wonderful feel good movie of the year, Marco, but it doesn’t tell me a damn thing about what you want to do, and I am not going to elect you president because of your mom and dad or your childhood.