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
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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 ...
I see what you did there ;-)
For someone who doesn’t understand the economy, he sure does know how to use it to his advantage.
I should know that little about economics!
The insanity of the Trump faction is that they have failed to succumb to the Siren song of Progessivism. Doesn’t anybody remember Star Trek?
Maybe we can get a few more of the wimps in Washington to notice that playing by their rules doesn't get their support or the support of their readers because they still hate you and everything you stand for regardless of the bone they throw you for being a good dog and not barking to much.
Have you guys forgotten about 1964?”
Looks like I have. Was a bit busy then, working full-time, had two babies under two years of age and going to college three nights a week. We were having our family Thanksgiving dinner when Kennedy was killed. We lived in Kansas at the time and other than trying to understand why some of my high school friends were going off to a far away land called Vietnam to fight a war for unknown reasons, politics didn’t have much of an impact one way or other on our lives.
I was four years old. The assassination is one of my earliest memories.
You’re just a mere baby. LOL. My folks didn’t have a TV and a neighbor drove over and told us to turn on the radio. Sad day.
I wonder how much they had to fudge/edit/delete in order to come up with "brash personality" as the only reason folks are backing Trump...
‘64?
It’s not so much forgetting, but more of not being even aware of it.
I was 5.
Here is some news for Ben Yakas, the author.
Many people, Trump supporters or not, rightly believe that YOU & your ilk are the racist, sexist hypocrites, & the direction you have led us is DOWN.
Based on the last 2+ decades of decline under Democratic & RINO leadership, it is clear that you people are the problem & people like Trump are the only solutions around.
You think we are insane but the results of your solutions are a weaker, divided, more dangerous country. It is YOU that is insane, or at least horribly wrongheaded.
Disclaimer: Trump is not my #1 candidate, Cruz is (don't the two seem to have an "understanding"?), but what conservative could not enjoy what Trump is doing to the GOPe and the lame stream media right now?
Quite agree.
I am not aware of having signed up for any commitment to HAVE a #1 candidate. Now or ever. And along the lines of what you said, I am very happy this has turned into a piece of entertainment instead of the constant worry as to exactly which member of the grifter elite will take his or her turn at the chopping block ripping the life out America as best he/she can.
He thinks we are "past all that" - that law is a tool to advance The Agenda, and should not be enforced in a regressive way that destroys the "inner lives" of the crimmigrants. :)
I like the way he talks about how rich he is. This takes it off the table for the dems, because they can't spew the "he's too rich" line the way they normally do. Trump wants folks to know what a money machine he is. They can't stand it. No playbook to deal with the Trump.
And have been, for generations...
"A rocket will never be able to leave he Earth's atmosphere" ~~~ New York Times, 1936.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
No further comment.
So, why is Ben Yakas such a panty-waisted Gay Bob?
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