Posted on 07/22/2015 9:40:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
I'm not sure if anyone has put it together yet, but if Donald Trump does not go quietly into the good night within the month or so, then we will have reached a turning. You can feel it already with the rise of Marine Le Pen and the hard-right National Front in France. And in our times, as goes France, so goes everyone as we have unfortunately connected ourselves here, there and everywhere in foolhardy cultural globalization so if one goes, everything goes.
In France's election last year, Le Pen claimed that the National Front would rise to be France's "No. 1 party." Then on election night, the National Front did better than even it had expected, polling a historic 25 percent in the European elections, The Guardian reported.
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Commentators suggest that Trump, on his record, makes no sense as a candidate for president. But when did revolution ever make sense? When did John Brown, John Lennon or Palin ever have to make sense to be effective?
If Trump is still riding high in the Republican polling say in a month or so from now, the Republicans can consider themselves to be all but finished. And Trump will be the avatar of a yet-defined new movement. A metamorphosis will have occurred. We will have entered a new phase of our American condition from which there will be no turning back.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
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