Posted on 07/22/2015 2:34:39 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
Yes, Trump's presidential campaign is a racist clownshow. And no, polls from July 2015 don't say very much about who will be president... But there's more to Trump's burgeoning popularity than immigrant-bashing alone. He's running as a full-blown plutocrat populist, and populism is, well, popular -- especially after a grinding recession. That should be concerning to his 2016 opponents, since the platform Trump has outlined on the trail has a long and successful history in American politics.
"All I want to do is make us rich, save your Social Security, [and] stop having everyone rip us off!" Trump said to cheers...
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Even when Trump makes the standard politician's plea to rise above petty politics, he's channelling nationalism rather than a centrist call for bipartisanship.
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Smart Democratic strategists have long worried that a savvy Republican would tap into voter outrage over the 2008 bank bailouts and take back the populist mantle. They probably didn't expect to see it from a real estate billionaire, but history has shown Trump's policy brew can be politically potent. Democrats were essentially invincible from 1932 to 1964, when they pushed hardline populist economic policies, tough-guy nationalist foreign policy...
But the voters who jumped to the Republican Party have always had a somewhat uneasy relationship with GOP's bankers-and-brokers-first economic agenda, and Trump has a real opportunity to pick up votes that his opponents won't seek out for fear of alienating their billionaire backers.
Trump is essentially a Democrat from the 1950s, wrapped in the persona of a Republican from the 1920s. Even if he's just trying to sell some books, that'll do the trick.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
They sure threw it somewhere.
He donated heavily to Demoncrats.
It will take someone who's been there to beat the Progressives.
As he said, he donated to everybody who asked so he could pick up a phone and get what he wanted.
What I find so telling is that Trump had his number because the man was begging Trump for help. LG just validated Trump’s story.
I would be curious to see his voting record while in office.
It’s Huf’n’Puf, so who cares?
[Nobody is going to vote for this cup cake.]
Comment at Yahoo. LOL
He thinks it will improve his poll numbers. He couldn’t care less about citizens in this country (regarding his comment) - he’s proven that in office multiple times.
If I was at Huffington Post, I certainly would never use the word “clownshow” directed at anybody.
That's like a guy covered in feces calling someone “stinky”.
Racist?!!?? Only the EXTREMELY feeble-minded would conclude that stating the facts about illegal invaders is racist.
Inigo Montoya has these word for simpleton that call people racist in such a way:
Huffington Post spent over $140,000 last year on rubber noses and extremely large shoes for their staff.
In addition, they are looking to purchase a car the size of a Festiva that will accommodate at least 30 people.
Why don't they focus on Bathhouse Barry and his racial legacy.....
Good article. First time I’ve visited HuffPo’s Entertainment site. I may check it out again sometime.
No, Trump is a bad person because he is daring to tell our media overlords, who the GOPe has made into a superpower with their cowardice, that he will say whatever the hell he wants. He is standing up to a bullying press by refusing to get out of the race. He is changing the paradigm where our media overlords set the rules, set the agenda and choose our candidates for us.
Will he win, not likely. But hopefully it will be our choice and not as a result of the mind police media dictating that he loses.
Like him or hate him, Trump is tweeking all the right knobs...
Like him or hate him, he has taken control of the narrative from the people that we have been complaining about for over two decades.
They keep trying to drive up his negatives with ridicule and outright hatred, but you can’t do that when the caricature is already well established.
What I find hilarious is that if Trump was running as a Democrat the same “haters” would be praising him to the hilt.
“...he’s channelling nationalism rather than a centrist call for bipartisanship.”
“Why don’t they focus on Bathhouse Barry and his racial legacy.....”
Because THAT would get them fired from those cushy, high-paying media jobs, in the “Fundamentally-transformed” New Amerika.
Yeah, but he’s just an entertainer /sarc.
He went 6 words before saying “Racist”.
I shut it off.
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