Posted on 04/29/2011 1:13:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite, which has excerpts from last night’s F-bomb cavalcade. One of our commenters in Headlines watched the clip and observed that Trump is basically a leftist caricature of Republicans brought to life. Precisely — but with the caveat that something like 20 percent of the GOP wants to embrace the caricature. (That number might already be slipping.) He knows he’s too compromised on conservative principles to get traction with the base so he overcompensates with tell-it-like-it-is populist bravado aimed at framing himself as the ultimate regular-guy outsider. Calling the Chinese MFers is the logical extension of that; if he can’t address economic anxieties with a serious policy solution, at least he can do it with rhetorical empowerment. That’s why Reagan, who did have a serious Cold War strategy, didn’t have to say “Tear down this motherf***ing wall” instead.
Just to follow up on the point about leftist caricature, though, I’m intrigued by this tidbit from his trip to New Hampshire:
Even as reporters assailed him with questions this week about the president’s birth certificate, Mr. Trump sought to dispel any notion that his candidacy is a public relations gimmick. He dangled the idea that reporters would be “surprised” by what he announces next month, soon after his NBC television show ends for the season on May 22.
“When the show is over, I will be free to announce,” he said. “I think you will be surprised at a number of things, but I think you will be surprised at what my announcement is.”
He’s not dumb, so he surely realizes by now that he has no shot at winning. As much as voters may enjoy this sort of “f*** the world” pandering on the stump, they’re not going to entrust the nuclear arsenal to a guy prone to rhetoric like this. Remember how Howard Dean, another man of righteous rage, was ahead in the polls until the primaries began and he suddenly realized that he was a bit too “much” for most Democrats? Trump will experience that too. So he’s almost certainly not going to run, in which case, what will the “surprising” announcement be? If he walked out and admitted that this has all been a goof aimed at seeing just how far he could get in the GOP polls using lowest-common-denominator populist rhetoric, it’d be one of the great pranks of all time. Liberals would go from loathing him to building statues of him in an instant. I know he’s not going to say that — realistically, he’ll give some excuse about being “better able to influence the process on the outside” or whatever — but still. It’d be epic. Content warning for what follows, if you please.
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Can't argue with that at all. But what's the difference to him?
Trump is banking on an audience that doesn't want to live in reality. They want someone to present them with an imaginary world where the fixes are easy and painless. Obama gave them that in 2008, now Trump sees a huge opening. The country is full of suckers begging to be taken each election day,
I have a Democrat friend who has been preaching Trump's Trade policy for years. He says we just never should have imported things and wants to go back to the 1970s.
Trump's Chumps!
Do you think Trump would make the best candidate and president out of the current GOP bunch?
I believe Trump best understands the mood of the country.
Keep in mind that Reagan was a huge fan of FDR, even after he converted to Constitutional principles, because of his leadership skills.
The “professional” Republican leaders in my state are stressing the need to play to independent voters. Temper the message, if you will, to garner their support.
People are looking for a leader. If a Republican can emerge that will give a positive message on our core principles he/she will energize the electorate. Otherwise people will submit to the false security of governmental intervention.
I think we disagree.
My opinion: Trump is, at heart, a promoter; this is your “mood” thing. Were the mood different Trump would be different, it doesn’t matter to him whatever the mood is..
He knows how to run a business and how to make money.
On economic policy, social policy and foreign policy, he is an idiot, not a clue.
On the personal level, he lacks depth, class, taste, and his value system stops with “I, me, mine.”
Other than that, we’re really close on the subject.
:)
[grin]
Trump is a good businessman... he knows the market... better than the professional Republicans.
In my neck of the woods that kind of language is reserved for the locker room, not public television. I do not recall Renaldus Magnus using four letter words to get his point across.
Communist! /sacrasm
If a foreign nation chooses to subsidize their exports and unfairly undercut our domestic industries then, as Friedman counseled, domestic customers should simply express their gratitude for the lower prices and buy the cheaper product.
My wife has to deal with Big Pharma and clothing company CEO’s on a regular basis, and she says she feels like taking a shower afterwards.
Once, she went to a conference,where a lawyer explained to a bunch of suits how the new tax laws (2002-2003) allowed them to use taxpayers money to fund shipping manufacturing facilities to communist China. She showed me her notes from that speech. She had written over and over: TRAITOR TRAITOR TRAITOR.
She grew up in Castro’s Cuba, and ought to know.
I am tired of the "free traitor" lies about Smoot Hawley.
Just another example of how effective the brainwashing has been
So Allahputz is now joining the Trump-bashing?
GO DONALD!
Smoot Hawley happened in a situation which was the diametric opposite of our current world situation.
Back then, America had the most to lose.
We were a massive exporting powerhouse.
Hint: We’re an importing mess now. We really have no more industry to lose.
We have everything to gain from a trade war. The only real question is, what are we waiting for?
lol You are hyperventilating. Trump is for real and right now he’s seeing what kind of monetary support and pledges he can expect. Seeing who calls him up. If it looks good then he runs.
Back when Paul Volker straightened out the Jimmy Carter mess... we were a mighty exporting nation and did not run continual trade deficits. Times are so much different today. I fail to see how a nation (USA) that runs a 600 billion dollar annual trade deficit can lose a trade war. We have to produce more and consume less. We have so much “stuff” in peoples houses and garages and flea markets that I don’t think we would even notice if China sold us nothing for the next five years. We could fix and make do w what we have and make more right at home in the good ol USA
Ya know and that loss of industries has cut down on a lot of our pollution and CO2 output. But of course the eco-wackos don't care and press onward with their insane money-draining schemes. Because they don't know how to produce...they just know how to harass the real producers, capitalists and workers of America
Great story, thanks.
Don't let 'em get away with it anymore. Call 'em on it.
His “lets take the Iraqi oil” idea could win over a lot of people.
He should run for President of Candyland.
>> If I thought he was serious about running for President I’d be worried,
I think I’m the only one that doesn’t give a # that Trump said # this and # that. Hell, it’s not like he said #UBO.
He has all these ‘easy’ sounding ideas that no one else thought of. Reminds me of about 2005 when FNC BoR did a rant about how ethanol would make our country energy independent 'just like Brazil', and then we wouldnt need a military, but our government just refused to make it happen. I had a few people here in Maryland who actually repeated this to me who believed it. Well they did get ethanol after that and it was a disaster, and we got stuck with toxic light bulbs too.
The nice thing Trump has by not being serious about being elected is that even if he is proved wrong he will say he won a huge victory by getting someone to disprove him, and the MSM will still give him more airtime. If would be like the MSM giving Al Sharpton center stage in 2004.
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