Posted on 01/23/2016 10:09:25 AM PST by TBBT
My colleague Ben Domenech was one of the many smart conservative and libertarians writers who took part in National Review's symposium on Trump. He, like many of the others, offered a measured piece, rationally pointing out the multitude of reasons Donald Trump is neither conservative, principled, nor equipped to be the president. I hope it'll matter.
I did notice, though, as I read through the pieces that I felt far less charitable than most of the writers towards Trump's supporters--perhaps the most sensitive constituency to ever appear in American politics.
Trumpism is an ideology that judges all things on how they interact with Donald Trump. As a result, it is completely disconnected from any cogent philosophy or moral worldview. And though Trump's fans characterize anyone who notes that the word clouds coming out of the candidate's mouth are incoherent platitude-infused puffs of gibberish as snobby, monocle-wearing, America-hating elite, all I'm saying is that if you're shopping around for a dictator, you can do a lot better than Donald Trump.
American politics has become a giant appeal to the base emotions of envy and/or anger--depending on what party you happen to be in. And Republican primary voters are about to bring every liberal fantasy about their regressive, anti-intellectualism, to vivid life. There are many rational people on the right who either justify or are sympathetic to this movement for understandable reasons: They're sick of corruption. Sick of the frauds and the failed promises. Sick of the abuses of the other party. Republicans want their own Obama.
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worship, regard, or treat (someone or something) as a god. "she was deified by the early Romans as a fertility goddess" synonyms: worship, revere, venerate, reverence, hold sacred
Trump Is The Solution To GOP Incompetence
Their fear is delicious to me.
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote against Hay-sooos.
The GOP is not incompetent. They are collaborators and very clever ones. They make deals with the commiecrats and then pay lip service to being conservatives. There are plenty of fools who believe them.
The Republican establishment is a BIG part of the problem.
If Trump is ANYTHING he is NOT incompetent!
Meaningless until you tell us who IS the solution the GOP incompetence.
There is only one candidate I see this time around with rabid, uncritical, obsequious cultist supporters.
That candidate is not Trump.
Another ‘knot on a log’ thinks he’s qualified to tell me what to think.
Where he sees road apples; I see fertilizer.
Are you related to TBP? How about TBLSHOW?
There is only one candidate I see this time around with rabid, uncritical, obsequious cultist supporters.
That candidate is not Trump.
I should add, on the Republican side. Democrats specialize in mob sanctification, and Sanders and Clinton fit that pattern.
He got this characterization of the GOPe traitors right: “incoherent platitude-infused puffs of gibberish...snobby, monocle-wearing, America-hating elite...”
It’s open season, no filter required on a white rich guy. Did anyone see Esquire Magazine this month, it has Trumps picture and says Hater in Chief. Sick of it.
Well, obviously, the answer is Cruz. You know, the guy who can't even get his own party to go along with anything he does or get them to show up at hearings he holds. That guy. Who will totally competence the the GOP back into ideological purity.
PUKE!!
My Rennsalear Polytechnic Masters and Ice Fishing Skills TRUMP your proposterous Ernie and Bert Brooks Brother`s stripey socks faux intellectual poop life.
I will probably get flamed by both sides, but the real reason for Trump’s success is that we have entered the age of the celebrity president. It started with Clinton. He was considered to be the cool guy (not to me, but there is no accounting for taste). So, it doesn’t matter what Trump says, he is popular and will probably win.
The other thing the anti-Trump people don’t understand is voters have reached a point where it doesn’t matter what any candidate says, because we know either they don’t mean what they say and/or it is impossible for them to fulfill their campaign promises anyway.
Every election is the same thing, the same promises. They all say they’re going to make America strong, educate all the kids, lift people out of poverty, protect retirement, produce jobs and prosperity, secure the border, defeat all our enemies, and on and on and on. It’s all BS! The only thing government can do is get out of the way of the economy and protect America’s real threats, and that is not what Americans want to hear.
Many people are now at the point where they think they might as well vote for a cool guy like Trump, who is entertaining and says things people like, as for any of the others. The rest will vote for Trump because they know who he is. He will be the next celebrity president. Who knows after that... maybe a Kardashian.
Trump is the grenade we are using to frag the GOPe.
Really? What is Donald going to do when he doesn't have 218 votes in the House, or 60 votes in the Senate, or when a court commits another outrage against the Constitution? It is not clear that Donald understands what the problem is.
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