Donald Trump's bile is a healing balm for spurned Americans

Financial Times ^ | December 27, 2015 | Frank Luntz

[EveningStar]

Those who support him now will support him next November, writes Frank Luntz

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Outraged by what Donald Trump says? You are not alone. No high-polling presidential candidate in the modern era has so intrepidly drawn the ire of so many within the American electorate. And there remains no end in sight.

Yet in rendering one voting bloc utterly apoplectic, he has appealed viscerally to another. The balance of middle ground politics is not, shall we say, Mr Trump's bailiwick. But America is no longer a middle ground country. We are already scared by our division -- and it is getting worse.

The simple truth is, the more provocative his language, the deeper and more passionate his support. He is no dummy; there is a method to his proverbial madness. Mr Trump says -- to the growing legions who will listen -- what tens of millions of Americans are already thinking. Respect or revile him, the man has hit a vein.

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The writer is a pollster and communications adviser

[Sacajaweau]

Donald is doing a good job of expressing our concerns...

[proust]

His bile is my bile.

[Cen-Tejas]

Courageous too!

[Raycpa]

Without bile we cannot digest some foods.

[Lurkinanloomin]

This election is between the citizens and The Cheap Labor Express.

Most of the candidates are beholden to The Cheap Labor Express.

If we don’t win, we lose our country.

[McGruff]

Who in this focus group thinks Luntz is a Puntz?

[MNJohnnie]

No Mr Lutz,

After the Political/Media/Business/Academic class heap bile and abuse on the heads of average Americans for decades, we finally found someone who takes it back to you clowns that you cannot buy or ignore.

It time you all sit down, shut up and start listening for a change.

[Robert DeLong]

Funny, I don’t feel spurned, just upset that so many Americans have gotten mired in stupidity and can’t find their way out.

[rktman]

“bile”? Really? Why not “His excrement is a balm”? Really luntz, your 15 is up.

[JFoobar]

This is written by Frank Luntz. The fat muslim censoring slab that Trump refused to hire. I can’t put any effort into reading this. Sorry.

[TornadoAlley3]

Gallstones!

[newberger]

Donald Trump’s candidacy is the worst thing ever for the Republican party (and this country).

People, he is NOT a conservative.

A campaign fueled by bile will cause America to rot from within. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan expressing Trump’s attitudes? No, of course you can’t.

[Uncle Miltie]

A very liberal friend says that Trump is willing to say lots of things people are thinking but are unwilling to say due to political correctness.

[Wolfie]

Agreed and agreed. But power does what it wants. My money is on the Cheap Labor Express, but I will be voting for Trump. And if he’s not running, I’m not voting. I’m not going to give the next American job cutter the notion that he governs with my consent.

[eyedigress]

LOL!

I used the word in scrabble years ago and got challenged.

Response was Ewwww!

[PATRIOT1876]

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is considered ‘bile’ by the extreme Left.”

[TomGuy]

our division -- and it is getting worse

Obama was advertised as the great uniter who would bring the factions together in infinite kumbaya-ness.

Instead, since he got in office, Obama has intentionally caused more division and disharmony than any other president in recent history.

As for Luntz, he found he could no longer use his focus groups to sway opinion regarding Trump. Recall his first focus group? It was filled with those who said they 'were going to support Trump, but after the first debate, now they are not'. Most of us saw that as Luntz's failed attempt at swaying the public away from Trump. It didn't work. It hasn't worked. It isn't working.

[dragnet2]

FOX News: Frank Luntz's Republican debate focus group poses for pictures

[eyedigress]

Trump stomped on Luntz’s face and he hasn’t recovered.

He does what FNC tells him to do.