Roger Kimbal wrote a good article. However, he still missed the point of the Trump Bronx speech.
Trump was speaking in the Bronx as a New Yorker, a favorite son.
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Whether he will be able to navigate the perilous, weed- and snake-infested waters of The Swamp is another question. I have recommended he bypass Washington altogether, beginning with holding his inauguration elsewhere. I don’t think he will, though, and I think it is an open question whether he can triumph over the entrenched elite that actually governs the country.
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This is the key. The rejection of elitism and entrenched power. Not abortion. Not guns. Not taxes. Not spending. Not foreign affairs. Not race politics.
The key is the Swamp. And the border, which largely is a problem caused by the Swamp.
The world of politics is filled with a class of people who declare themselves elite, usually by virtue of a meaningless undergraduate degree and even more meaningless graduate degree in some completely undemanding discipline like sociology or political science or history.
It’s never engineering. Or physics. Or geology. Or math. Always these soft pseudo sciences that generate an academic credential that the Swamp has incrementally declared necessary to be hired into government.
Somehow, a billionaire has become the leader of populism. The chief opponent of the Swamp.
No. The only opponent of the Swamp.