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The most damning part of Donald Trump’s political rise
The Washington Post's PostEverything ^ | August 27, 2015 | Professor Daniel W. Drezner, Tufts University

Posted on 08/27/2015 7:26:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Remember when the 2016 field of Republican presidential candidates was supposed to be so deep and talented? Then why is a reality TV clown beating all of them?

The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has begun to notice that Donald Trump isn’t going away anytime soon in the polls. Which poses a bit of a writing quandary.

There is no denying that Trump stump commentary generates a lot of traffic — I mean, just tremendous, quality clicks. But this incoherent gasbag has been blathering on for more than two months now, and there’s only so much one man can say about his shtick. Say that he brings out the ugly side of American politics? Done. Comment on his feuds with conservative media? Done. Observe that he’s not really a populist, not really? Done. Point out that his bare-bones policy statements make almost no sense whatsoever? Done and done.

There’s only so many ways that I can say that Trump reminds me of nothing so much as that old man at the deli talking to nobody in particular about how the country is going to hell and how it was better in the “Mad Men” days when you could properly insult minorities and play grab-ass with the secretaries.....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: bush; cruz; gop; trump
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They actually pay this guy six figures to teach classes?
1 posted on 08/27/2015 7:26:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Professor Dan doesn’t live in reality ... he lives, pampered and protected, in academia. He is an intellectual without a clue.


2 posted on 08/27/2015 7:28:08 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sore loser.


3 posted on 08/27/2015 7:28:12 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yes, its certainly “damning” that the only candidate whose slogan is “Make America Great Again” has a political rise.


4 posted on 08/27/2015 7:32:45 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am sensing a common tone to today’s anti-Trump rants.

A sense that “Ok guys, this is getting serious, we cannot just dismiss him any more and expect he will go away...”


5 posted on 08/27/2015 7:32:51 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From the U of Chicago to Tufts Fletcher School (=International politician),
his only apparent "diplomacy" appears to be for Iran, Mexico and N. Korea.

Daniel.Drezner@tufts.edu , Office Phone here

6 posted on 08/27/2015 7:36:08 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“But this incoherent gasbag has been blathering on for more than two months now,”

Unlike our betters in the punditry, who have been bloviating gasbags for decades.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 7:36:35 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
reality TV clown

The Big Media meme continues -

Trump is a loser, he's not serious, you can't win with him, he'll destroy the party, etc. etc.

(In a similar vein, if this were sports, all these "experts" would be telling the New England Patriots to get of Tom Brady because he's too controverial, is ruining the team brand, etc.)

In other words, Big Media is afraid that the Republicans will nominate someone who can actually win, and they're totally pissed about that. Republicans were supposed to pick Bush, which Big Media would then destroy as soon as he locked down the nomination.

Damn! The world is so unfair!!


8 posted on 08/27/2015 7:38:34 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So a Tufts diploma means that your parents were so dumb they spent thousands of their hard earned (we are charitable there) dollars to send you to be indoctrinated by a bigoted gasbag such as Dresser? A more discerning parent would have had you working at Home Depot until you learned something about life.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 7:39:42 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Feel the Panic...the more losers who spout this crap come out and expose themselves, the more I like Trump!


10 posted on 08/27/2015 7:40:32 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another MSMer with a spinning head spewing pea soup puke out of his mouth..


11 posted on 08/27/2015 7:40:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We pay this guy with our federal grants and loans and other subsidies to colleges like Tufts.


12 posted on 08/27/2015 7:41:46 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Americans speak American English ... which includes ... wellll ... YOU know what it includes

And D Trump speaks it

We kept TRYING to learn governmentese and politicianal loquatiousness .... but in the end .... all we ever wanted was for SOMEONE to speak ENGLISH

I don't think it's any plainer, nor simpler than that

Trump talks our language.

13 posted on 08/27/2015 7:42:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: gr8eman

“Feel the Panic...the more losers who spout this crap come out and expose themselves, the more I like Trump!”

Same here at FR!

(In before the militant TDS-ers)


14 posted on 08/27/2015 7:42:37 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: DaxtonBrown

see my #13


15 posted on 08/27/2015 7:43:22 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So here’s my question: What does it say about the deep GOP bench that none of them have managed to outperform a guy who has no comparative political advantage except celebrity and a willingness to insult anyone who crosses his path?

Wrong question, stupid. The real question is why Trump resonates with so many voters. Screw the GOP bench. They no longer speak for conservatives...to the point where I can't tell the difference between a Republican and a Liberal Democrat. And until I see a change from the spineless whining that I hear from the "GOP bench", my purse is closed to them. They want some of my money? Find someone who has a pair of stones, is willing to advance conservative values on immigration, spending and taxes, and big gov't. Until then, sit down and shut up.

16 posted on 08/27/2015 7:44:21 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

it was better in the “Mad Men” days when you could properly insult minorities and play grab-ass with the secretaries.....

It was.


17 posted on 08/27/2015 7:44:48 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another Trump endorsement. The more the liberal elites do not like him, the more people do.


18 posted on 08/27/2015 7:45:14 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another example of the old saying...

Thems that can...do.
Thems that can’t...teach.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 7:45:46 AM PDT by moovova
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Remember when the 2016 field of Republican presidential candidates was supposed to be so deep and talented?

Meanwhile, the Democrat field of candidates consists of Hillary, an old white rich woman, Sanders, an old white socialist guy, and (maybe) Biden, an old white stupid guy.

That's a really diverse group of Democrats.

20 posted on 08/27/2015 7:47:02 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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