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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 ...
Good stuff. Articulates the “zeitgeist” rather well I think. Thx.
Fun read.
“the Leviathan of Government” has absorbed and assimilated nearly every organ of our society to it’s purpose- growth.
Impressive essay.
When you put the batteries in the Energizer Bunny backwards he keeps coming and coming and coming....
I love that joke...
bttt
I think his attraction is that he ISN’T a lifelong politician.
Easy: America and Americans have traditionally been brash, politically incorrect, and harsh.
Freedom doesn’t conform. It lives on its own terms. There is restraint but it is self imposed, not externally imposed, and therefore, genuine.
Americans long for the real reality, someone who has no problem being himself. Not hard to figure out except for those steeped in worrying about what others think which is the basis of “political correctness.”
The second-to-last paragraph is the money quote.
Excellent read
This is exactly why Trump may be the best choice for this time.
It will take an outsider to slay the dragon.
Uh, Trump has a pair?
"So woe to the chattering class who mistakenly believes Trump’s supporters are just a fringe “protest vote.” They are indeed protesting, but they do so as the New Protestants, coming forth from both major parties along with independents, sorely aggrieved at a dysfunctional government guilty of far more than 95 transgressions. They arise together in fury because our once great government has clearly become destructive of operating by the consent of the governed, and it is therefore the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
This is one of the best essays I’ve read in a long, long time.
Exactly, we need a dragonslayer. The others, Cruz included, are too careful and willing to play along.
....”The People just want a competent dragon slayer to kill the damn thing....”
“when a form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” (Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776)
oh yea!!!!
Yes! And the ones that consider themselves to be the elite ruling class would do well to keep that in mind.
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