[LongWayHome]

She’s not my type, but I see the attraction:) The ‘big picture” is are we willing to finally let someone, anyone (Trump) (Cruz) smash the Ruling elite, at least the GOP side of it, into a million pieces of glass. It’s going to be ugly, but it has to be done. The GOP should have went populist in the 90s ( low immigration, wage growth, fair trade ) & they would have had a 50 year run.

[nathanbedford]

I can dig deep into my remote hard drive and resurrect posts filed long before Donald Trump declared to the effect that the Republican who can marshal the populist anti-immigrants pro-jobs issue and combine it with trade can not only win this election but make the country safe for Republicans for a generation.

I agree with your general premise. Donald Trump is, as I have said many times, the wrong messenger with the right message. But I have to concede that no one has been able to drive home the message like Donald Trump. We owe him that much but we do not owe him mass suicide, we do not owe him the obligation to actually drink the Kool-Aid.

In this context let me point out that many of Donald Trump's position are entirely congruent with the positions of Thom Hartmann including trade. We conservatives should be very sure of what we are getting in Donald Trump. I am not suggesting that he is a Manchurian candidate, but I am suggesting that he has no conservative philosophy, he is an egoist who will operate ad hoc. He will come down on some issues in a way that makes us happy but he is very likely to make us very unhappy elsewhere.

Right now Donald Trump is breaking a lot of progressive and establishment china and that is all to the good… but is he a bull in a china shop?