The Donald Phenomenon

Ever since Donald Trump literally exploded onto the political scene, tens of thousands of words have been written by all stripes of political junkies trying to figure out just what do we have here. Is he a shoot-from-the-hip kind of loudmouth, as he is being made out to be, or is he perhaps the real thing? Is he the kind of true believer we haven’t seen since the days of Harry S Truman?

A few of you may be old enough to remember that Ol’ Harry called ‘em as he seen ‘em. He publicly likened the smell of his political Harry Truman Harry Truman

opponents as being somewhat akin to that of a fresh dropping of cow manure. It got to the point where the President’s Chief of Staff appealed directly to the gentility of First Lady Bess Truman to see if she could persuade her husband to tone down the rhetoric just a bit. Mrs. Truman replied, “You should know how long it took me to get him to say “manure!” But history now shows the Man from Missouri to have been one of our most forceful, as well as our most colorful, presidents. He fired the legendary General Douglas McArthur, and dropped the atomic bomb.

Do we have another Harry S in the making, or is it just slick showmanship? I decided to go to the source, The Donald himself, for an answer.

Mr. Trump has published of several books, including his first, an autobiography, TRUMP — The Art of the Deal, copyrighted in 1987! Amazon is still offering it in paperback, 367 pages, new, for $4.82. I couldn’t resist. TRUMP ART OF DEAL BOOK PIC

So far I have only gotten through the first hundred or so pages, but in it are some revealing facts of just...

The problem for his opponents is that Donald has emerged as one of the most trusted men in America.

This is even worse news for Hillary who is considered untrustworthy and dishonest

In an age of sanity the Donald would be seen as an amusement and a novelty. We do not live in an age of sanity. The Donald is surging because he is the enemy of the enablers of tyranny and white-flag wavers in DC. The base is more than cynical, they are outraged at being sold out by a faux-opposition party that resembles Benedict Arnold more than George Washington. The base watched the Bush family erase the Regan legacy, they were fed Bob Dole, Mitt Romney, John Roberts, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. The peaceful revolt known as the tea party was destroyed by republican subterfuge as much as the IRS. The GOPe rallied for criminals like Harry Reid rather that allow tea party candidates like Sharron Angle to replace him. Need we mention Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell, or a myriad of other outside the beltway candidates that were fragged by the Republican party. The Donald is anti-establishment and the base is past fed up with having to chose between a communist tyrant and fascist tyrant. Donald is not a sane choice in a sane world, but he is a proper choice to take down the GOP establishment.

I'm enjoying watching Trump do the demolition, but in the end, it is Cruz who is best suited to rebuild the America that reflects the hopes and dreams of the framers.

I'm enjoying watching Trump do the demolition, but in the end, it is Cruz who is best suited to rebuild the America that reflects the hopes and dreams of the framers.

I'm behind Cruz too. Cruz/(Walker, Benson)2016

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