Posted on 08/13/2015 6:40:24 PM PDT by Steelfish
How Long Will Trumps Cathartic Candidacy for Fed-Up Conservatives Last?
by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON August 13, 2015 The coarser and cruder Donald Trump becomes, and the more ill-informed on the issues he sounds, the more he coasts in the polls. Apparently, a few of his targets must be regarded as unsympathetically as their defamer. Trump is rightly mocked for cynically spreading quid pro quo money around. But he quickly counters that his critics from Hillary Clinton to his Republican rivals have all asked him for such cash or for favors. Trump preps little. He has no real agenda.
And he makes stuff up as he goes along. For such a New York brawler, he has thin skin, smearing his critics, often in creepy fashion. How can a former Democrat, once a pro-choice, pro-amnesty liberal and a supporter of single-payer health care, remain the godhead of the conservative base for weeks on end? The answer is that Trump is a catharsis for 15 percent to 20 percent of the Republican electorate. They apparently like the broken china shop and appreciate the raging bull who runs amok in it. Politicians and the media are seen as corrupt and hypocritical, and the nihilistic Trump is a surrogate way of letting them take some heat for a change............
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I also have concerns about Trump and I really don’t think he’ll be the candidate.
That being said, I hope his campaign remains viable for a long, long time. He is good for the party. No one else could get the publicity he gets and therefore the publicity his ideas and opinions get.
And they’re not all bad. I think a lot of air will go out of the room if he ever becomes irrelevant but one encouraging thing to me is that he and Ted Cruz seem to have forged a pretty good relationship and if he does bow out, he may throw his support to Ted.
National Review further cementing their reputations as the gope presstitutes of choice.
These repeat posts is pathetic nonsense. He wants this, he wants this, He is in favor of this.., count 100 instances.
How about whether he would do all he can to insure that gay marriage gets turned back? Try getting an answer on this before this stuff keep getting reposted.
Hanson is a registered member of the Democratic Party...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Davis_Hanson
There’s something to be said for star quality in a candidate. I understand that Cruz has a certain personal magnetism in person, but it doesn’t come across in the media. If they’ve forged some sort of alliance, I hope it benefits the both of them. The one is weak where the other is strong and vice versa.
....When they all call him President Trump! He will kick ass and take names. He can’t be bought, he has all the money! LOL!
Spot on! Trump is appealing because many of us conservatives long for someone who is willing to stand up and fight, and Trump is certainly all that, but he’s not really one of us ideologically. He has a mish-mash of left/right political instincts and really isn’t guided by consistent conservative principles.
They are not Bush supporters to be sure and NR will jump on the Cruz bandwagon any time of the day. I don’t this they merit the label you provide for calling a buffoon a buffoon who has been all the map on socialist health care, abortion, gay marriage, and has given wads of cash to the Clintons.
Oh my!
It is the show you heard. Mark said it would be in the third hour. Thanks.
I could not have said it better. This guy is playing quite a few of folks to feed his ego. He treats this like a gameshow.
What is disappointing (to me) is seeing so many people duped by a loud mouth charlatan in the first place, and then these same people quickly discard the opinions of proven conservative voices (Malkin, Will, VDH) who dare to point our that the emperor is buck naked. Trump is doing a fine job of stirring the pot and putting red meat on the table, but to place him at the head of the conservative movement is simply asinine and goes against everything he had done and said in the past.
Was it a month ago I posted, “Cruz is the man I hired to Make America Great Again.”?
If congress sends him a bill, I’m sure Trump would sign it.
If he gets a chance to name a SCOTUS justice, I’m sure they would be conservative.
It’s congresses roll to impeach or pass an amendment, or limit the judiciary’s review over cases. We need Cruz in the Senate not the White House
Trump has the right theme. Cruz can’t in the Whitehouse on abortion and rolling back gay marriage. Trump can win, because he is focused on what really matters right now. The Economy, jobs, trade policy and it’s impact on jobs, illegals and their impact on jobs.
Trumps successful at garnering voters because he’s excellent at selling himself.....he ‘s rich but the average guy doesn’t care because his choice of language his language he can relate to...understands it...and “touches” the men who have for so long had their manhood clipped at by liberal and woman groups.....
Go to a factory or road crew....go to a water fountain in a company....somebody is talking Trump...at every one of them.
Translation..."stop it, you're destroying my false claims that Trump isn't conservative."
. . . which leaves a huge question: who will get more votes than Trump is already (putatively) pulling??
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