I trust Trump as much as I trust fox guarding a chicken and those who believe his speeches today, or totally ignorant to his past deeds, behaviors and DNC funding.
It’s not Trump who burnt those bridges. The bridge between the grassroots and the establishment was torched by the latter to prevent the former from crossing it to have input in policy. The GOPe wanted all the power for itself, but it is the grassroots on which the party’s success really depends - the establishment is wholly expendable.
So, although you mistrust Trump like a fox guarding a chicken, you would still vote for him?
Trumpeteers will say, "but that was yesterday, today is all that matters, you $%#$%#%!!!!!!"
/sarc, I think
“I trust Trump as much as I trust fox guarding a chicken and those who” believe his speeches today, or totally ignorant to his past deeds, behaviors and DNC funding.”
It’ll be obviously between Trump and Hillary. Both liberal. The former parading in Republican skin. The outcome? Who knows. But it’ll be a very close outcome.
He has explained how the left went wrong, and became entrenched, and how the right has been ineffective and how Trump cuts through all of that.
But the point missed is ok, so what? IF we are properly against the left, what is the right supposed to be for? Freemarket capitalism? He informs us of Schumpeter's warning about capitalism containing the seeds of its own destruction, using the tools of society to entrench the prerogatives of the entrenched.
What he does tell us is that Cruz's style of conservatism has ceased to ring true - preppies against sex is a wonderful putdown of it all. It is a philosophy that flies up its own butthoe in its own hypocrisy.
What we don't learn is what those who oppose the left are supposed to think about it all.
For instance, it is clear that the present arrangement of the uniparty is a deal that 90% of us cannot live with, between Cruz supporters and Bernie supporters, and not least Trump supporters. Why?
Well here, Trump gets it, something the article sort of hints at. The individual, with all his rich ties to other humans, is left out of the equation. We are not left with a way to live that matters to those who want to live. Our counter to Chinese work camps is Mexican work camps - not productive jobs in communities where Americans can build a society. The international economic juggernaut does not make room for humans.
As the author says, the left has made sex and race their brands. The right - well they take up the view of no sex and we don't talk about race, much because the left will beat us up with it. But sex and race for or against solve none of the problems that society presently has. That is where Trump comes in. He doesn't swing on that hinge. While Ryan talks, hypocritically, about sitting down and developing a true conservative agenda - whatever that means - Trump has a little list of some key things to do that will make things better. And, if we have good men who can focus on the big things, maybe they can also stand aside and let some of the little thing be fixed too, like rearranging the town square so that we can have shops and cafes selling things people want without a battle with the EPA, HUD, and the religious right and left. Space that should be accessible to everyone has become accessible to no one.
The elites fix this by going off to their private clubs and resorts - all paid for with our money.
I missed the memo. Where did Trump say he was part of the Republican party? And the bunch of drunken frat boys that call themselves a party oppose Trump at their own peril. There is a moral lesson from Colorado. It isn't about rules. It is about identity. The GOP is supposed to be a political party, which means that it is supposed to represent the interests of a sizeable block of voters. Otherwise it is, as some have tried to assert, a private club, but as such needs to be bereft of all political power, legal favoritism and access to or control over public money.
Excellent post, lormand!
Trump is going to win, and the GOPe will either join him or risk being ostracized and left out of government. My guess is that the DC GOPe is so compromised, most will end up ‘retiring’ because they will not be able to deliver the goods in the budget any more.
Days of blanket spending end with Trump.