Well said about your reasons for "hanging onto this horse" (Trump).
I like Hanson. He doesn't get Trump though. I strongly disagree with him on Trump and I intentionally left a lot of the article out in my excerpt. While he does see the "Why?" to Trump's popularity and can articulate that well, he is really no different than Krauthammer or Will on his disdain for the man (Trump). On that, he is just flat out wrong. He is blinded by his disdain for that type of flamboyant personality that pokes "conventional wisdom" in the eye and says what are you going to do about it?
I do believe that Trump has the El Hefe stature and the other more conservative candidates would do well to emulate that more within their own style. This is what is needed for POTUS 2016. Not another 0bama, just an El Hefe who will beat back the pretend brute with a symmetrical or even more shock & awe level of force.
I did read the entire article and still think Hanson gets it. He gets it, but does not like Trump. I do not remember him saying but, I think he is on the Cruz wagon.
The key is; We are fed up.
Hanson doesn’t have to like Trump, but at least he ‘gets’ him and doesn’t attack his supporters as “crazies” or “low-information voters”. There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious of Trump, given his past, a few things he’s said recently (such as “deal with it” the Supreme Court has spoken on gay marriage, and he could have done better on the reporter shooting...although he did ok on it). In my case, it’s not even close - I have to take Trump at his word and he is the ONLY CANDIDATE capable of turning around this supertanker that the left has created. And immigration wins over everything else - repopulate this country and none of the other issues matter, as we become like California - in that it doesn’t matter whether Republicans are against gay marriage and abortion...they will NEVER have the votes to do a damn thing about either.