Posted on 06/21/2016 2:08:58 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Other public figures won’t admit they agree with him — but they often quietly adopt his ideas.
Donald Trump has a frightening habit of uttering things that many people apparently think, but would never express. And he blusters in such an off-putting and sloppy fashion that he alienates those who otherwise might agree with many of his critiques of political correctness.
Nonetheless, when the dust settles, we often see that Trump’s megatonnage strikes a chord — and, with it, sometimes has effected change. In an odd way, the more personally unpopular he becomes for raising taboo issues, the more resonant become the more refined variants of his proposals for addressing these festering problems.
A better metaphor is Trump as a loose nuclear weapon. Once he is dropped onto an issue, no one quite knows exactly the parameters of the ensuing explosion — only that it is going to blow up lots of things, and foremost Trump himself. In the subsequent charred landscape, no one emerges unscathed from the fallout, and many suspect that they should have adopted proactive solutions well before they were nuked by Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
what a post..! KUDOS, wow..!
“...many suspect that they should have adopted proactive solutions well before they were nuked by Trump.”
Exactly right! The anti-Trump members of the GOPe have no one to blame but the GOPe itself, because they have NOT “proactively” addressed the myriad problems facing the country and have instead been complicit in furthering them!
So what's an example of a "bluster"?
The NRers and the MSM can keep repeating this BS, but I'm not buying. I don't think he "blusters." I think he speaks from the heart instead of from the teleprompter. And I almost always agree with him.
People who write for NR will suggest that Trump is critical of immigrants. I think this is sort of like suggesting that one is critical of bank customers because he speaks out against bank robberies.
ML/NJ
Sometimes, those who are immersed in commenting and writing about politics have a hard time wrapping their heads around something new, something that does not clearly fit into their accepted models. They’ve spent their professional lives studying these things, and Trump comes along and reveals gaps in their understanding. It took longer for VDH to start understanding the Trump phenomenon than it did for a lot of us. But at least it appears he’s beginning to understand it. I’ll give him more credit, at least, than I will to those #NeverTrumpers who aren’t open minded enough to reassess their initial reaction to Trump.
Nay, some people actually enjoy reading material that can challenge them...VDH sometimes does that for me...
If that means I'm pseudo-intellectualism, so be it...
So you don't read anything above the typical badly written and error filled 5th grade level pablum that dominates today's culture..?
“This isn’t a pillow fight. This is war, and if VDH chooses to style it some elevated faculty meeting tea party he’s barking up the wrong tree. “
Not intelligent, VDH.
Selling out will cost you, but I guess you factored this in : )
Hanson’s summary is very favorable to Trump and is quite illuminating.
Hanson’s point is that Trump causes an uproar which is always followed by a debate in which Trump’s points are affirmed.
If Trump were polished and skilled in the art of weasel-wording, he would not be causing uproars, no attention would be paid him, and no debate would ensue. Therefore, his bombastic crudeness is essential to his candidacy. I like it just fine.
Trump never learned to speak RINO.
Trump has been called a "loose cannon" many times....
However....a loose cannon is more maneuverable and easily aimed.
At the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Admiral Lord Nelson devised a tactical device that enabled him with only 27 ships to defeat the 33 larger ships of the Spanish Armada.
As well as his ships being more maneuverable...his cannons, being smaller were more easily aimed for best effect.
HA! LOL!
Good One!
Watch what those bastards do, not what they say. They have been importing tens of thousands of Muslim insurgents. Not one of them has been vetted except by Muslim group—not even one percent of the “refugees” are Christians, though they are the ones targeted by ISIS. I’m pretty much convinced that every single national politician is owned outright by Muslim despots. Don’t have time nor the expertise to get into banking, but they’re all part of the same corrupt mold.
VDH is dead to me until after the election, at least.
Well said.
... and nattering nabobs of negativity.
In 2012, Paul Ryan lost the vice presidential debate to Joe Biden. If he were to run in 2016, he would lose to whomever Hillary chose as her VP pick, because if you can’t beat Biden in a debate, you can’t beat anyone.
You seem to be the opposite. I'm talking about all the verbiage and games VDH is using to say Trump's right but he's not people like us.
So NR is going from full-throated NeverTrump to undermining him backhandedly.
VDH is not ignorant enough not to know that the “loose nuclear weapon” theme plays exactly into the Clintonites’ “Daisy” strategy, which begs the question as to why he is aligning himself with that.
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