Posted on 02/08/2016 4:37:24 AM PST by Kaslin
It's easy to make the conservative case against Donald Trump - he's a Hillary-donating human troll doll who displays the interpersonal skills of Damien from "The Omen" while practicing the same deep, abiding commitment to conservative ideology as Charlie Sheen does to sobriety. Yet millions upon millions of Americans - some committed conservatives - still choose to support his nomination and, stunningly, do so on purpose. We need to understand why. In the Army, you call it "red teaming" - looking at the fight from the enemy's point of view. In the law, a trial lawyer must not only know his own case but understand the other side so well that he can make his opponent's case. And there is - cue the prayer for the Republican Party - a case for Donald Trump.
The best argument for nominating The Donald is the fact that he is not one of those aging, doddering, super-white, socialist Democrats. It's a sad state of affairs when the sole item of diversity in the leadership of one of the two major parties is whether or not one sits to pee, and considering Bernie's quirks it's probably best not to explore that imagery too deeply.
But clearly, Trump is not one of them, and clearly he can win. Despite lingering high unfavorables, Trump has won over a lot of people and he expands the Big Tent in ways no one else running can. While he underperformed in Iowa, he still pulled in a quarter of the votes, and a lot of them were first-time caucus-goers. Many were former Democrats - the legendary Reagan Democrats we Republicans always talk about winning again but who we never, ever bother to address.
Most of Trump's supporters are good people, patriotic Americans burned by an elite that sees their misery as collateral damage in a coastal, urban-led struggle for feel-good progressive change and personal enrichment. The positive, optimistic, even Reaganesque language Trump uses when describing the future speaks to them - and Trump is the first major American figure in a long time to speak to them of hope and with respect. Mostly the culture lectures them on their stupidity for not having attended Harvard, their selfishness for not wanting to support welfare cheats with their hard work, and their unforgivable, innate racism for having a great-great-great-great-great grandfather who came from the British Isles. These are the Americans who built this country, who fought for it, and who died for it, and until Trump came along, all they ever were was dumped on.
And they are not all white people from the sticks - Trump is reaching minorities. Rand Paul laudably made a point of going into minority communities to show them that all Republicans were not moustache-twirling Simon Legrees, but through his reality shows Donald Trump went into their homes. They know him, and he may be a little silly but he's no monster. The same people who have spent every day for the last six months predicting that Trump would flame out tomorrow are dismissing his appeal to minority voters. There is no reason why on this point they will suddenly do a 180 and start being right. Already we see sports figures and entertainment stars signing on. Trump can win the pop culture fight in a way both that hideous, ancient, socialist monster and Sanders can't.
And let's be clear: Donald Trump is no racist. That's just the same lie they always spit at anyone not fully goose-stepping in the liberal formation. Sure, a few dorky neo-Nazi white power nimrods try to stowaway on the Trump train, but it's silly to think they are any significant part of his movement or that he has any affection for them. Trump's re-tweeting some idiot with a username like @EddieWhiteGenocide69 is attributable not to malice but to the same carelessness that characterizes everything else he does.
Trump does not have a racist bone in his body - it is not racist to raise an issue like the bloody toll among American citizens extracted by illegal alien criminals who the elite refuses to deport. Here's the latest Dreamer in action - Donald Trump is not a monster for saying "Enough!" The monsters are the hacks who refuse to stop the bloodbath and try to hide the carnage behind a curtain of lies like "Act of love."
Trump is able to speak clearly to Americans instead of uttering focus-group tested drivel at them. Sure, over the years, Donald Trump has shown the same consistency to his conservative ideas as he has to his wives, but he seems to have settled on good ones right now and maybe he will continue to do so. Trump is, at least, a capitalist - after all, crony capitalism is a kind of capitalism, isn't it? The guy is not a doctrinaire free-marketer, to say the least, but he's not a wholly-owned subsidiary of either Wall Street like Hillary or the stinky mass of cop car-defiling occupier-types like Bernie.
And at least with Trump, we know what side of the fight he would take if America was attacked. He seems to genuinely love our veterans, as long as they weren't captured, and his unpredictability would give our enemies fits. Putin and the mullahs would look at Sanders and Hillary, tent their fingers, smile, then take the Baltics and test a nuke. They could count on another four years of liberal passivity from Team Chamberlain. But with Trump, who the hell knows? It's not an entirely bad thing to have a president everyone is afraid to make sudden moves around.
Of course, there is also a case to be made for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Neither is competent enough to unleash the full potential of the evil of their historical analogs. Sanders is far too weak and feminized to fully blossom into a reboot of his idol Joseph Stalin, and Hillary would spend her term deepening and expanding her already stunning record of corruption while bitterly plotting against her enemies (us) like a doughy Lucretia Borgia. But the best argument for these two creeps is that they would probably end the rancor between Red and Blue America permanently. Unfortunately, that would be because Red America would secede in disgust.
So there is a case for Donald Trump. Unfortunately, in the end that case boils down to, "It could be worse."
1. Without Trump, the VERY important case against illegal immigration is not being discussed much. Likewise, the stopping of muzzie "immigrants". Those two are THE most important ones to most conservatives, without these being solved we won't have much of a country where we can argue conservatism.
2. Trump can frame the narrative. He frames it in front of the media, and dares them to do something about it, he doubles down on their whining, calls them on it, and wins.
3. No one else has shown they can be effective at any of these things.
Sounds pretty conservative in the right places. Yes I know, but they've all got problems.
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Betsy Trump?
Yeah, he proved that spine by opposing crony taxpayer wasting $$ ethanol subsidies in Iowa!!
Oh wait........
Me and mine? What kind of grammar is that? *rolling eyes*
So you say, but you support the MOST DC power structure connected candidate running, Donald Trump. He has been buying and selling political influence and power his entire career, that’s how he made his money. I like some of what Trump says, but to try to place him outside the money/political power circle is just not honest.
I can’t wait for Wednesday when Trump is the clear cut winner in NH and the Trump ankle biters will go away and sulk.
I will not vote for Trump in our primary on March 1; which is my right, but will do so in the general election if he is nominated.
I would only consider opposing Trump if the RNC/GOPe was already crying for donations for his campaign. I doubt that will happen even after he wins the nomination.
The democrats haven’t even shown a need to start early to strongly target the incumbent republicans in congress. That’s ominous or they are waiting to see if they need to run to the right or hard left.
LOL!
Donald Trump would probably take that as a compliment.
Comparing Trump to Betsy Ross is high praise indeed!
Good for you! 8^)
What also isn’t working is the online intimidations to vote against Trump. Its just got to the point where folks are ignoring forums, time to turn off the puter, the non stop polls meant to manipulate them. The MSM. The debates.
Turning OFF the manipulation.
All questions will pretty much be answered tomorrow.
To be honest with you, there’s no particular reason for New Hampshire to have tons of support for Donald Trump. They just do. Some have said it’s a function of his celebrity status. Could be. But in my day, I knew I’d watched almost every appearance of Ronald Reagan on TV, so that sure-handed, balanced spokesman image certainly affected me.
But it didn’t write and deliver his speeches. It didn’t put that steel in his spine. It didn’t put that love for America in his heart and his gaze.
Personally, I think Trump really means it when he says that a nation without borders is no nation at all. It’s one of those self-evident truths that probably is the basis of our revulsion for the establishment that denies that basic truth, that bit of common sense.
So, tomorrow. Was it all just bells and whistles. We’ll know by late evening.
And what is your point? Ted Cruz never claimed to have been born in the US. His mother is a natural born US Citizen having been born and raised in Delaware and never gave up her US citizenship despise the rumors that are floating around.
If Trump is such a liberal, RINO, whatever, then why is he being attacked by Rove and every other establishment hack? Why is he being vilified by the leftist media and lied about and attacked constantly? It’s because he’s not a liberal, its because he puts America first and always has. They know that he will do major damage to the uniparty, he knows how to hire the best and brightest to make things work. He will not stand for waste and corruption.
True, but those of us who see the Trump haters for what they are can still be mildly entertained by their immature babbling. Consider it comedy relief! 8^)
“Most Trump supporters are good people, patriotic Americans burned by an elite...”
Could be that we (Trump supporters) are tired of the last eight years. It’s as if we’ve been in an abusive marriage compliments of the PTB in DC. If we get Cruz, Rubio, etc., it’s just shuffling the abusers to new positions but nothing will change. Just realizing that three years from now would be exactly like now is so depressing.
Trump remembers the real America when it was great; the pipsqueaks are too young. They don’t care if America is great again, they only care if they win this title. Trump is high energy and success oriented. He hates to fail and if he’s president his legacy will be important to him, so failing is not an option.
uhhh....he’s exposing the buying and selling of political influence, not as a hypothetical, but from the insiders “been there, done that” perspective. You need someone who knows how the game works in order to clean up the mess.
Yes, the GOPe is trying to look on the bright side after Trump, Carson, and Cruz ransacked their house :- )
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