Posted on 07/18/2015 3:31:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just saying.
Trump has been at this, longer than the author:
That doesn’t have much to do with the article. Did you read it in it’s entirety? I don’t agree with him, but whether or not Don Trump flirted with a run back then is beside the point. I was helping to run a campaign in Iowa around that time.
Bizarre, but there is some sense to it.
Libertarians are often bizarre.
Why would you claim that Trump is nothing more than a populist? Over the years Trump has talked about running for President, thus has a track record of expressing his concerns about the direction of this country. Are not politicians measured by their accomplishments? Do you not believe that Trump can accomplish what he promises?
Our unsecured borders are costing our country dearly in corruption, crime, flow of terrorists, cost of incarnation in our jails, lives at the border, terror for property owners at the border, frustration for those who immigrated in a legal manner, continued frustration with failure to enforce laws on the books, and on and on.
Would not that one thing be an accomplishment?
We have heard nothing meaningful from our mealy mouthed politicians on both sides of the aisle, even now.
So I guess we are supposed to vote for the candidate that loves everyone,TALKS ABOUT,Tolerance,Celebrating Diversity,and will listen to all opinions and views,sort of like Democrats and Obama,how has that worked out?
I don’t know what Tumps inner motivations are or his “Real” goal is,I do know the way he expresses himself in these speeches is a breath of fresh air from the CRAP we have been fed for 50 years from career politicians,or in my opinion career ass holes that has now brought this great country to the brink of destruction.
You’ve never heard of Senator Ted Cruz?
I couldn’t get past the part about “right fascism” and its existence in the world. Can you tell me this ***hole’s point? And is he a Libertarian or a Communist? I can’t tell the difference anymore.
So far, Cruz is about the only one that doesn't fear "The Donald" - I take that as a sign that Trump's "bloviating" is hitting a lot of targets with effect.
I agree.
With the exception of Trump, who is speaking very clearly, repeatedly, and forthrightly about bringing jobs back to America, and defending our own borders.
Both of these issues, are very high on Donald Trump’s list of things which are important for America.
Nobody else is saying, what he is. Yet he is supposed to somehow be the “amateur”?
Well then, I say, gangbusters to him. I’ll vote for the amateur. For real.
There is a long time to go until the election, but the first debate is now in three weeks.
Just three weeks I think. August 6th.
http://www.2016presidentialdebateschedule.com/2015/07/potential-candidate-list-for-first-2016-republican-debate/
“hoi polloi”? I prefer “populist” as a broadbrush label.
The article makes a few excellent points.
Don’t get me wrong; the closest ‘personality’ (political too) to which I can compare Trump, on the other side of the foe spectrum, is Ahmadi-Nejad. The latter was/is a right-winger, a populist, but an Islamofascist, within his ‘domain’ (country).
I think Trump does, in a way, compare to Putin too - at least for the noises he has made so far.
A key difference between Trump, AN, and Putin is that we have already seen the latter 2 in office, in action, and their actual political delivery. Trump is yet to become the president, and he has no experience as the President of a country.
Other differences too, which we are yet to see in practice, since Trump, although a successful businessman & salesman, has never been a Statesman.
Very interesting article.
It was the first time I have heard of anyone compare Trump to Hitler and Mussolini. I don’t see the connection, but it is still scary nonetheless.
Fitting that it would be on the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. I hope it is just as explosive and scares away the faint of heart, which is most of the field.
IMO Trump has no chance at nomination. His value is in bringing important issues to the attention of the public, something the liberal media won’t do and many Republicans are afraid to do.
He sez he JUST heard Trump speak. But that was a week ago. It took him a week to cobble together that screed.
My reply is that the left has run our Country down to the very brink of ruination, and the author apparently has no problem whatever with that. That tells me he doesn’t really give a d@mn about the Country.
He’s panicked by the possibility that the people who make the Country work are being wakened up and alerted by someone who can lead them and the Country back in the direction of sanity and prosperity. He puts me in mind of the clown this week on the net who opined that Obunga DESERVES a 3rd term.
I read the article and I generally agree with the author although he makes quite a few assumptions... Electing one man does not a fascist state make. Further, he doesn’t slack to the concurrent rise of third-wave feminism and the truly fascist left-wing ideology that exists today and is gaining power via the Supreme Court, Obama, news media and the like. Who’s to say Trump would be any worse than that? Can you even say that without showing your bias? Who’s to say that we don’t deserve an effective counterbalance to the radicals that have been working tirelessly for the past 7 years to transform our culture (and everyone on this site would agree with me here)?
The author says we should be weary of Trump, but he doesn’t shed a tear for the millions of Americans that have suffered under this regime. I’ll be happy to stand against Trump if the left agrees to similarly stand against crooked people like Hillary (someone that is even more vain and power mad than Trump) or socialists like Bernie.
Honest, decent Americans everywhere should be scared if either of those people get into office, too.
slack = speak
July 14, 2015 is the date it was submitted for publication.
Shark jump!
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