Just saying.
Trump has been at this, longer than the author:
Bizarre, but there is some sense to it.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
Shark jump!
Can’t help but compare Trump’s successes and background to Hussein’s, who couldn’t run a Dairy Queen franchise.
I’d love to see Trump at a negotiating table with a few undesirable countries. HE probably would not sell us down the river. Of course, he’s not a Muslim, either.
More flack. Good. Still over target.
A typical example of awkward youthful libertarianism. He’s just all mixed up and drawing silly conclusions.
Yet the author accuses Trump of using racism and of scapegoating immigrant groups? How does the author think someone should talk about the illegal problem or isn't it a problem to the author?
Yes, I read the whole thing.
Brevity is the soul of wit and Jeffery Tucker is witless...
What do we have now?
I like Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin but neither can win...
I have been “retired” for a long time and meet up with guys and gals that are retired or recently retired. I have a great retirement job.
Recently I worked with a guy that was planning his retirement in detail months before it occurred. He faced the prospect of nothing to do and was furiously digging around to remedy that prospect. It was comical and tragic. He had no clue about reality. He was trying too hard.
There are others less motivated that do little or nothing and bum around. They frequently just die
Trump is an active man, engaged in all sorts of endeavors and yet he is facing retirement and is looking for something to do. All his business life he has been somewhat constrained to a narrow path to please his business associates and bankers and such
When retired, with all the money he needs, he can cast off those restraints in retirement and do something completely different, what he wants to, make a difference as an American. He can retire, do that which he could not, endeavor to rid the country of that perceived as harmful. He can have as his retirement job, saving the country from the present tyranny.
Some accuse him of flying false colors, acting Republican when he is a Democrat. It is possible that just the opposite is occurring. He has been acting as a Democrat as a business necissity in a Democrat city and state with liberal Jews as both colleagues and customers. In retirement he can cast off that facade and be himself. That is precisely what he is boisterously doing.
It is not an act....... the act was his life pre retirement
Well, I can believe it because I am over the retirement fence looking back
OH! There’s one of THOSE words again....”bourgeois.”
Any time you start to read any article that has words that clearly identify the intent of the subject by “one of those words...i.e. bourgeois, struggle etc” you can be absolutely sure that the article is written by a 1. Socialist, 2. A Marxist, 3. A Communist and 4. someone who lives in a special shell made of imaginary pixie dust.
When I read an article as soon as I see one of “those words” I stop wasting my time reading it.
I will not vote for anyone who is not a nationalist.
Ignorance, resentment, and would-be despotism is optional.
Love of country, admiration for your nation's history, heroes and achievements doesn't have a place in the collective.
Obviously, an American using the expression "American Exceptionalism" would be offensive in the extreme and anyone seeking high office and using such language has to be a modern Hitler or pick your favorite infamous nationalist dictator.
Okay...fine. If "American Exceptionalism" is new code-speak for "Master Race" and no longer allowed, then how about bringing back good old, helpful, humble "American Common Sense" and just letting the chips fall where they may?
For example, fixing the border and stopping the illegal invasion is just Common Sense.
Common Sense: An idea whose time has come.
Common Sense for America! Common Sense FTW!