He is canny, that is for sure. He is also decisive and has developed an intuition that serves him well in his business arena.
2. Self-funding. That’s unheard of in history. Not beholding to anybody.
That is not appealing to me. That makes him a likely autocrat. I want a President who is beholden to the people who elected him.
3. Sees immigration as the threat it is.
Yes, this was his original appeal and it remains his strongest point.
4. Handles Americas # 1 enemy THE PRESS better than anybody.
Trump is a master of kayfave and the press responds is if programmed. They just can not help it. Big points to Trump.
5. Has more experience with big money than anybody including Cruz.
I am not sure what you are getting at here. I do not see big money as the problem, or that would REALLY disqualify Trump. I see the problem as a century-long drift into Federal tyranny and a complete sidelining of the Constitution (two sides of the same coin). Does Trump even care about this? Or does he simply want to use Federal power to a different end?
6. Understands the threat of PC.
Yes, he does. But this does not set him apart.
re your response to:
#4. I think you meant kayfabe.....with a “b”. Assuming you did, we totally agree.
#2. “autocrat”....hmmm..........”absolute power”.... a “real” threat to the American people contrasted to the demonstrated and REAL threat of TOTAL corruption that we see now? I think him not being able to be bought is his # 1 strength. The salt and pepper to self funding his campaign is not taking a salary. This point is REAL and sets him apart from EVERYBODY. I hope he insists that the salary be Publicly and with great fanfare applied to the national debt.
#5. ....what I was getting at is that BIG MONEY, as in Trillions, puts you in rarified air with only a few people in the world that really understand it. Trump won’t be starting off cold and will have good instincts developed over decades of borrowing billions for his own projects. Plus, he already knows the top people in the world to put on this problem and he can converse with them (i.e. hold his own). This debt is a manageable problem if you have the balls to know what to do and then the backbone to stick to your guns. I fear that all the rest except Cruz are way too weak on this issue and will be manipulated and intimidated by the big money boys like George Bush was in 2008.