Posted on 09/01/2015 4:26:24 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
He’s giving fed-up Republicans something other candidates are not.
Donald Trump has at least three things going for him. (snip)
What fuels his candidacy is attitude — in particular, disdain for those who undeservedly believe they warrant deference. Behind the bombast and the waving hands, he gives the impression of having contempt for the ruling class, (snip)
After nearly seven years of Obama, the public is worn out by sanctimoniousness — by all the Professor Gates/Trayvon Martin/Ferguson lectures on race by an abject racialist, by all the sermons on climate change by a global jet-setter, by all the community-organizing banality by one who always has preferred the private school and the tony neighborhood, by all the us-versus-the-1-percent warfare by one who feels at home on the golf course only with celebrities and stock hounds. Given all that, the Republican base, at least for a few more weeks, wants someone to be unapologetically unacceptable — both to the liberal establishment that Obama ushered in, and to the wink-and-nod elite Republican opposition.
It is said that Trump appeals most to the pissed-off white man of yesteryear. Perhaps. But in the age of a multiracial United States it is more proper to say than he appeals to the infuriated targets of elite disdain, people who are tired of Democratic slurs about “tired old white men” — as the exempt white and (most of them) old Sanders, Biden, O’Malley, and Webb wait for a mature white woman to fade, while hoping that other old white men like Kerry, Gore, and Brown don’t wade in.(snip)
Another person I quizzed about Trump is a seasoned, though cynical, PhD. His take? Trump is Maximus, and the primary campaign is his arena: We are all thumbs-up/thumbs-down spectators who enjoy the blood sport.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
VDH ping ...
Ping to an interesting article ... which has been severely edited.
I never know with modern journalists
I think the "What Makes" is the inate Americanism he enjoys as a successful business man and his ability to see tragedy all around him that belies that Americanism and he believes he can do something about correcting the situation
The "Why Does" is infinitely more interesting, not the least could be .... it IS fun to something good.
-——on the golf course only with celebrities and stock hounds-——
one wonders if the invitation to the golf course is received with glee or disdain
Good answer.
I think Hanson gets it.
Trump is every thing we should dislike or even hate except as the Latino barber said, “He is a Jefe” and unafraid.
He reminds me of past American leaders like Andrew Jackson, George Patton and even Eisenhower and Truman. To the literalist here, the key word is “REMINDS”.
I think I am going try to hang on to this horse.
it IS fun to ... DO ... something good.
The kind that, though that suckah be buckin' we be hangin' ON.
(I like your phrase)
Happy Warriors Unite
Well said about your reasons for "hanging onto this horse" (Trump).
I like Hanson. He doesn't get Trump though. I strongly disagree with him on Trump and I intentionally left a lot of the article out in my excerpt. While he does see the "Why?" to Trump's popularity and can articulate that well, he is really no different than Krauthammer or Will on his disdain for the man (Trump). On that, he is just flat out wrong. He is blinded by his disdain for that type of flamboyant personality that pokes "conventional wisdom" in the eye and says what are you going to do about it?
I do believe that Trump has the El Hefe stature and the other more conservative candidates would do well to emulate that more within their own style. This is what is needed for POTUS 2016. Not another 0bama, just an El Hefe who will beat back the pretend brute with a symmetrical or even more shock & awe level of force.
Nice graphic. I could certainly get behind this team of “Happy Warriors”. A Trump VP would have much responsibility/value.
“Rank-and-file Republicans are worn out from being lectured that no one can win without the Latino vote (10 percent of the electorate), the black vote (12 percent), and the Asian vote (5 percent ) — all on the premise that to speak in similar terms about getting a large chunk of the white vote (70 percent ) would be somehow racist.”
Take-away line and matches my tag line and profile page PERFECTLY. Good good Victor...you’ve always been with us (until Trump) and now it looks like you’re coming back to be with us again. We love you.
Thanks for the ping
I did read the entire article and still think Hanson gets it. He gets it, but does not like Trump. I do not remember him saying but, I think he is on the Cruz wagon.
The key is; We are fed up.
Swiped from Day By Day, tidied up with very little effort on my part using good ol’ MS Paint..
Hanson doesn’t have to like Trump, but at least he ‘gets’ him and doesn’t attack his supporters as “crazies” or “low-information voters”. There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious of Trump, given his past, a few things he’s said recently (such as “deal with it” the Supreme Court has spoken on gay marriage, and he could have done better on the reporter shooting...although he did ok on it). In my case, it’s not even close - I have to take Trump at his word and he is the ONLY CANDIDATE capable of turning around this supertanker that the left has created. And immigration wins over everything else - repopulate this country and none of the other issues matter, as we become like California - in that it doesn’t matter whether Republicans are against gay marriage and abortion...they will NEVER have the votes to do a damn thing about either.
“What makes” makes a better headline. Taken from “What Makes Sammy Run?” a fictional account of a screenwriter’s rags-to-riches life. There was a Broadway version in the ‘60s. No one would want to be compared to Sammy, though who knows if VDH is familiar with the story.
yeah, VDH makes some valid points - while clearly not being sold on Trump. He has a very good paragraph early on stating that Trump often contradicts himself minute to minute. Which he does.
And of course, we get called RINO’s or elites for simply exposing third grade logic errors......when we point this out.
His unabashed (I don't know what/how to put it) ‘slogan’ to make America great again. The American spirit had been beaten down for the last 8 years or so, relentlessly and mercilessly, from all sides. The Trump phenomenon is not only the well-deserved comeuppance to the elites, it is also an outlet for the true grits of this country.
Like everybody else, I don't know where/how Trump campaign ends, but that train (true Americans) has left the station/reservation.
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