[COUNTrecount]

This brings us to what Trump now has. It's something all successful politicians have to a degree and that every iconic one has in spades: an emotional bond with his supporters.

[Maverick68]

The most important thing Trump is doing: Driving a stake thru the heart of Political Correctness.
Political Correctness is managing to do what the Nazis, Commies and muzzies could not: Bring America to its KNEES.

[CodeToad]

Trump hasn't been part of the eGOP "scene" in DC and those that have spent their entire lives climbing the social ladder in the eGOP are scared they won't retain their positions if Trump wins. Period. THAT is why they oppose Trump.

"Don't look now, but while our best conservative is running a political campaign, Trump is leading a rebellion. Not as a liberal or a conservative politician, but as a successful red-blooded, can-do American capitalist.", Jim Robinson

[omega4412]

In part, the Trump boom is personal, not political. Trump is an alpha male. Obama is a gamma metrosexual. Obama thinks he is an alpha-plus-plus metrosexual, but he is really an affirmative action alpha. Obama constantly and condescendingly attacks the whole idea of alpha males and the US as an alpha nation.

[jurroppi1]

“Donald Trump’s rise this election season has been historic, amounting to something heretofore unseen in the annals of American politics.”

Close enough to “hitherto unknown”.

So, I do believe it was destined to take the place of the mud shark in my mythology.

[combat_boots]

It’s called RAGE.

Want to work?
Want sovereignty?
Want globalists and traitors crushed into sand?
Want to be Americans?
Want American exceptionalism?
Want to deserve this country?
Want to STOP illegals and traitors derailing this country?
Want your progeny to have work, a country, pride in country, safety?

What’s not to understand?

Is he perfect?
Far from it.
Is he a social liberal?
Yes.
Is he a ‘deal maker’?
Yes.
Is he a leader?
Yes.
Is there proof of his success-and failure to learn from both?
Yes.
Will he hire on experts for guidance, advice, and in-fighting?
Yes.
Will/does he get in the mud?
Yes.
Does he play to win?
Yes.

Disagree if you like. The time for lies and loss of what America is is over.

#coldanger

Send the 535 home. All but a handful are traitors anyway. More, many more, if you count agency personnel.

[Publius]

Ping.

When FDR was just entering politics as a young man, he met an elderly gentleman who, as a youth, had heard Andrew Jackson speak.

I'm noting a lot of comparisons here, besides the obvious one of comparing "Jackson and Reform" to "Make America Great Again," or the fact that both men spoke to their audiences at a third grade level.

In the 1820s, large portions of this country were illiterate or just literate enough to read the Bible, preferring memorization to actual reading. Compulsory education was mostly a product of the Progressive Movement after the Civil War. Today large portions of America are barely literate because the public school system has for several generations deliberately educated Americans to think like serfs looking to government as their lord, rather than thinking critically like free citizens.

This article deserves more attention than it is getting because it cuts so close to the bone.