I Am Honored!
Posted on 08/23/2015 8:17:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is a racist, sexist hypocrite who doesn't understand the economy (or basic math) and probably doesn't have anything resembling an inner life—but the man sure can put on a good show! Good enough that thousands of people who get off on the xenophobic, hate-filled subtext of his blathering will pack half a stadium to watch his combover blow in the wind. Which leaves one question for the sane among us: why is a television punchline appealing to people now?
Andrew Kaczynski
✔ @BuzzFeedAndrew
Pro-Trump Twitter is such a weird place
11:30 AM - 23 Aug 2015 · Big Beaver, PA, United States
The NY Times grappled with that question this weekend, and came up with some possible, but somewhat unsatisfactory, answers. In interviews with voters in Michigan and New Hampshire after Trump events, they found that no one cited his policies as motivation for backing him. Mostly, they like the fact that he has a brash personality.
His support is not tethered to a single issue or sentiment: immigration, economic anxiety or an anti-establishment mood. Those factors may have created conditions for his candidacy to thrive, but his personality, celebrity and boldness, not merely his populism and policy stances, have let him take advantage of them.
Tellingly, when asked to explain support for Mr. Trump in their own words, voters of varying backgrounds used much the same language, calling him “ballsy” and saying they admired that he “tells it like it is” and relished how he “isn’t politically correct.”
Trumpism, the data and interviews suggest, is an attitude, not an ideology...
(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com ...
How can it be that the NYTimes doesn’t understand something? Aren’t they the smartest folks around?
Sane people struggle to understand the New York Times.
No doubt.
These Ministry of Propaganda minions can’t understand the Trump thing because they don’t have plexiglass navels to see the real world.
NY Times, Sane People Struggle To Understand Donald Trump's Appeal
Should Read:
Sane People Struggle To Understand Why Anyone Reads The NY Times
That's much better...
Doncha think?
Most interesting primary campaign of my lifetime.”
Mine, too. First voted in 1958. This one just Trumps all of them put together. What a hoot!
The politically correct house of cards is falling and it’s builders are freaking out.
There is no “hate” in Donald Trump on these issues.
He is just saying we should enforce existing law.
Why does this writer hate the US?
We are done with IDEOLOGY, especially liberal and mealy mouthed RINO ideology.
Working on “They all have to leave” and “Secure the border and controlled legal immigration” ideology.
What a condescending political class we have. While I do not support Trump I completely understand what’s happening. These are normal everyday voters who are sick of both party’s screwing up. He’s addressing the core problem. No leadership and no effort to actually help Americans succeed.
“Donald Trump is a racist, sexist hypocrite who doesn’t understand the economy (or basic math) and probably doesn’t have anything resembling an inner life”
These people lash out with accusations stated as fact but have no basis in reality. They want to define what these things mean and then apply them to anyone who disagrees with them about anything. Smear tactics.
And how would he know about someone’s “inner life”? And why is it any of his business?
As far as math and economics, I think I’ll give billionaire Trump the benefit of the doubt over this j-urinal-ist.
Sane people never read the NYT.
Rich, eliteists, living in the bubble / not affected by Obama’s carnage types will never get “it”...
A friend of mine has had a newspaper route for some years now. One of the papers she throws is the ny times. We refer to it affectionately as ‘the commie rag’.
Fortunately many of us understand the progressive psychosis, so we can easily imagine why they would ‘grapple’ with simple concepts that collectively motivate free societies, like self preservation, the visceral reactions to bullying & censorship, the desire for free and open expression, or fairness (as in having a say in how much of what one earns should be distributed to those who did nothing to earn it) and why people would be attracted to candidates who openly address them.
Yakas. Wondering if that rhymes with jackass. He reads like one.
As a dear friend often said, “I don’t read the New York Times but then I don’t read Pravda either”.
The Times is a faded shadow of what it once was.
The sane people left it by the third or fourth reduction in workforce.
That’s a good thing really.
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