Posted on 08/13/2015 6:40:24 PM PDT by Steelfish
How Long Will Trump’s 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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Smell their fear,,,
Yes his candidacy will end!!!
When he takes the oath to be President of the Unites States on this great country of ours. God Bless TRUMP!!
Yes indeed!
TDS
Be careful what you wish for....
It really is disappointing to see all of these supposed conservatives like VDH and others show their true colors.
Well, we’ll see how he deals with the Black Lives Matter debacle when that happens. Its already being set up by the media. Sooner or later they will try to swarm him at an event.
If Trump can turn a spectacle like that around in his favor when it happens-—he’ll go all the way. That’s the last dirty trick the media has in their bag, I think.
But I could be wrong. Their bag might be bottomless.
Until they find an alternative like Cruz and then he competes the Reagan-Gingrich revolution!!
I have great respect for VDH but that was just idiotic. I have never seen VDH do a rant, and this one is a doozy.
Be careful what you wish for....
I have lost track on how many of these type of stories I have seen about Trump. The dimoKKKRATS and Rino’s must be fearful.
I am very careful -— now.
Heard Levin interview Trump tonight.
It was an issue oriented interview and Trump sounded the best
I’ve ever heard him.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON! Shame on you!
VDH has let his emotions get the better of him.
With 52% of likely GOP voters having “negative,” or “very negative” views of his candidacy, there is less than zero chance of Trump getting anywhere in the GOP.
Am surprised to hear this from VDH but oh well. Heard Trump on Levin tonight and he sounded entirely reasonable! Maybe because Mark actually asked him about his policies without simultaneously trying to stab him?
A month ago it was 62%.
He is on a downward trend in that respect.
You stole my thunder.
I was going to say it will last until he takes his oath of office.
One thing about Trump is that the more you come after him, the more he wins.
I heard Trump on Mark Levin’s show tonight and he sounded pretty good..
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