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The Trump Paradox
American Thinker ^ | 17 August 2015 | By Robert Gelinas

Posted on 08/17/2015 6:23:43 PM PDT by 11th_VA

The Washington chattering class is perplexed and bedeviled by a political alien by the name of Donald Trump, who just doesn’t have the good manners to die, no matter how hard they try to kill him. No, like The Terminator, he keeps on coming, advancing through the fusillade of snide and snarky bullets, oblivious to the ad hominem walls of fire in his path, and immune to their favorite weapon: rhetorical condescension and ridicule.

Yet, for some inexplicable reason, the more Trump is bashed the more people love him.

Why? He’s brash, not polished. He’s vulgar, not erudite. He’s a recent convert to the faith, not a lifetime conservative Republican. He’s politically incorrect, neither nuanced nor fluent in Orwellian doublethink. He’s even harsh at times to his adversaries, not disingenuously charming (like he who shall not be named).

Yet all those qualities seem to make him all the more endearing to many folks.

How can this be? ....

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gop; repositorytrump; trump; trumprebellion; trumprevolution
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To: 11th_VA
He’s even harsh at times to his adversaries,

Something like this.....


101 posted on 08/17/2015 9:33:38 PM PDT by spokeshave (If an illegal alien is undocumented immigrant a drug dealer is an unlicensed pharmacist)
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To: bigtoona; shibumi

“we need a dragonslayer.”

And an exorcist.


102 posted on 08/17/2015 9:45:13 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: hoosiermama

103 posted on 08/17/2015 9:45:59 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: 11th_VA

Fantastic essay.


104 posted on 08/17/2015 9:48:50 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: 11th_VA

“The people just want a competent dragon slayer to slay the damn thing”

Exactly. Our “rulers” are so far removed from giving a damn about the American people that we are ready for a flawed, unpolished, crass, rough-around-the-edges man with a spine to defy the clownfest of “royals” who are running America into the ground.

After years of the traitor Zero stabbing us and our country in the back every day, and enjoying it as much as he does, yes, Trump is a breath of fresh air.


105 posted on 08/17/2015 10:11:23 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Hostage
Here is Joe Dan Gorman:
106 posted on 08/17/2015 10:13:38 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: 11th_VA

bkmk


107 posted on 08/17/2015 10:30:05 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Yosemitest

Thanks! He’s good!


108 posted on 08/17/2015 10:43:24 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage

109 posted on 08/17/2015 10:45:52 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Windflier
To enlarge on that analogy, I’d add that, it’s only because he’s stepped into a rip in the fabric of time, a temporal distortion, a wormhole, if you will.

I've thought the way he prospers from his attacks that either he's Machiavelli+Sun Tzu, or the hand of God was over him...which event may actually be compatible with a temporal distortion or wormhole, after all Jesus trying to describe Himself often referered to himself as "The Gate" and "The Way" ;)

110 posted on 08/17/2015 11:46:17 PM PDT by GoneSalt (+NooB+"I STAND WITH DONALD TRUMP-HE'S TERRIFIC-HE'S BRASH-HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH"~TED CRUZ~)
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To: 11th_VA
He knows the beast.

A Rebel King from the Land of Yankees ?

111 posted on 08/18/2015 12:48:19 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: ebshumidors
Where’s CEW for an AT counter?

Have an idea for such a counter....along the lines of "you nailed his appeal - but has he ever shown any interest in reigning in the Leviathan?"

112 posted on 08/18/2015 1:34:33 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: bigtoona
Exactly, we need a dragonslayer. The others, Cruz included, are too careful and willing to play along.

Now that's a reasonable assertion. Not sure I agree, but I see where you are coming from. Now, about that dragon.....has Trump mentioned anything about reducing the size of that dragon? Has he said anything about reigning in it along the lines of the Constitution? Seriously, has he?

113 posted on 08/18/2015 1:38:08 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: 11th_VA

Kind of a David vs. Goliath thing - only David was the sheep conglomerate owner instead of the shepherd...the MSM and Left have unwittingly made trump an underdog that folks want to see succeed. irony at its best. Gonna stock up on pizzas because there are some shows where popcorn just ain’t enough....


114 posted on 08/18/2015 3:31:36 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 11th_VA
Gee-Oh-Pee establishment ...
115 posted on 08/18/2015 4:11:39 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: 11th_VA

“Extraordinary” ...

George Will and Krauthammer should read this ...

but they won’t, because (like some engineers I know) they’re the “smartest guys in the room” ...


116 posted on 08/18/2015 4:21:38 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: hoosiermama

INCREDIBLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


117 posted on 08/18/2015 4:44:22 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: hoosiermama
more people that see it the better
118 posted on 08/18/2015 4:45:45 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: hoosiermama

Loved that vid! That guy is great.

Thanks for posting :)


119 posted on 08/18/2015 5:02:19 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Charles Henrickson

FYI. Great analysis. Pay to play like selling of indulgences.


120 posted on 08/18/2015 5:06:05 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
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