Camille Paglia: This is why Trump’s winning, and why I won’t vote for Hillary

salon ^ | March 24, 2016 | Camille Paglia

[Hojczyk]

Hillary Clinton’s Brussels response was basically boilerplate, calling for solidarity with Europe and playing chess with Trump to paint him as a greenhorn and hothead.

Bernie Sanders (whom I support and contribute to) had little to say, beyond conveying condolences to the Belgian people, because foreign affairs have unfortunately remained a sideline for him. Neither Sanders nor Martin O’Malley ever went after Hillary’s disastrous record as Secretary of State with the tenacity that they should have—a failure of strategy that has proved costly in the long run.

Trump may be raw, crude and uninformed, but he’s also smart, intuitive and a quick study who will presumably get up to passable speed as he assembles a brain trust over the coming months. Whether Trump can temper his shoot-from-the-hip impetuosity is another matter. There is a huge gap between the teeth-gnashing fulminations of the anti-Trump mainstream media and the perfectly reasonable Trump supporters whom I hear calling into radio talk shows.

The machinations of the old-guard GOP establishment to thwart Trump voters and subvert the primary process are an absolute disgrace. But it’s business as usual for tone-deaf party leaders who, barely more than a day after the discovery of Antonin Scalia’s corpse last month, stupidly proclaimed there would be no hearings for an Obama nominee to the Supreme Court.

Republicans need to wake up and realize that Trump’s triumph is not due to some drunken delusion by a benighted rabble but is a direct result of the proven weakness of their other candidates. Ted Cruz, the last one still standing, is bombastic, sanctimonious and coldly sharkish behind that forced smile.

[Hojczyk]

She gets Cruz right

He is to smart by half

I do not think he can beat Hillary

Maybe VP so he can lean to speak to real people

Not to the super smart

[patriot08]

Off topic, but vital information:

TED CRUZ WANTS TO CUT SENIOR’S SOCIAL SECURITY
TRUMP DOES NOT

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[traderrob6]

The polls say the opposite.

[TroutStalker]

This week’s horrific terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and metro raised the pressure in the already tight U.S. presidential campaign. Candidates of both parties were instantly measured against voter expectations of how a president could and should behave in a similar crisis. Meanwhile, it was jarring to see a beaming President Obama relaxing at a Cuban baseball game, while grisly photos of the wrecked terminal and dazed, bloodied victims in Belgium were on steady media feed all over the world.

[marktwain]

A Trump Cruz ticket, or Cruz as AG, then to the Supreme Court, would be a great ticket.

[Liberty Valance]

Neither Sanders nor Martin O’Malley ever went after Hillary’s disastrous record as Secretary of State with the tenacity that they should have—a failure of strategy that has proved costly in the long run.

Sing it Camille!

[mac_truck]

Name a state that Romney lost in 2012 that Cruz can win in 2016.

I’ll wait...

[Dr. Sivana]

Her best line is at the end,
“Hillary as Norma Desmond, Mommie Dearest and the Wicked Witch of the West. “

[marktwain]

If we are to bring the budget under control, Socialist Insecurity must be controlled as well. It is a bigger chunk of the budget than military spending.

It would not take much sacrifice; simply stop growing it for a few years!

But even that is fought by greedy Senior Social Security recipients, who, as a class, are much better off financially than the average American.

[Ohioan]

Why Camille would support Sanders, I do not know. Nor have I ever understood some other things about her. But she is one of the smartest women out there; and has long been the ultimate disposer of feminist poseurs.

A worthwhile posting. Thank you.

[onedoug]

Bernie Sanders (whom I support and contribute to)...

Demonstrating herself as a nincompoop immediately cuts into whatever acumen the article possesses.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Camille Paglia?
TTIUWOP!
Giddy-up!

Uhhh, wait..what?

[austinaero]

“greedy Senior Social Security recipients”

Wow, you’re a real piece of work.

[StAntKnee]

Smart woman. Y’know, except for feeling the Bern. Must read on her rips of Hillary.

[Lagmeister]

Ted Cruz, the last one still standing, is bombastic, sanctimonious and coldly sharkish behind that forced smile. Is Cruz a truly convincing model of Christian values of charity, compassion and humility? Jimmy Carter did it way better than this. Cruz seems consumed by a vainglorious conviction of his own destiny, tied to an apocalyptic view of history. He reminds me of glad-handing televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, who were loved and trusted by so many but whose careers ended in disgrace.

Yes it is accurate, but anybody can see that Cruz is an inch thick religiously and a mile wide in hypocrisy.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Why Camille would support Sanders, I do not know."

Because she's an aging hippy super lefty!! However, she is one of the few lefty pseudo socialists that I can respect because she is honest in her beliefs and writings. She is more of the old time lefty. She reminds me of Christopher Hitchens before he made the swerve to the right towards the end of his life. He was also someone who you could respect because he was honest, sometimes brutally.

[dsm69]

Zero dancing with a tranny?

[TroutStalker]

Not as bad as the one on the right.

[poinq]

Its rare that I come this close to agreeing with a lesbian art and literature Yale professor.