Jeffrey T. Kuhner Posted on 08/25/2016 9:19:44 AM PDT by taildragger
Special to WorldTribune.com
Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Forget the establishment media, the rigged polls and the anti-Trump talking heads. The dirty secret of this election is that Donald Trump can win — and in a landslide.
The reason is simple: America does not want a third Obama term. The only poll that truly matters is the one showing nearly 75 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track.
Leave aside Hillary Clinton’s fatal weaknesses and rampant criminal behavior — covertly arming and supporting ISIL, the disastrous war in Libya, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, pay-for-play (which got former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich 14 years in prison), mishandling classified information (a crime), committing perjury in congressional testimony to the Benghazi committee, repeatedly lying to the American public and deliberately hiding her failing health. She faces an insurmountable obstacle: Hillary is President Obama’s heir. A vote for her is a vote for the continuation of Obama’s failed progressive policies. This is why she must — and should — lose.
If Trump triumphs in November, the watershed moment will be his recent decision to shake-up his campaign.
Paul Manafort, a Washington insider and long-time RINO operative, was effectively demoted. He became Trump’s campaign manager after the billionaire’s victory in the Republican primaries. Believed to be an experienced operator who could add the necessary polish and discipline to the Trump campaign, Manafort was seen as the indispensable man.
No longer. It’s no accident that the Manafort era coincided with a relentless decline in Trump’s poll numbers. Manafort echoed the views of establishment GOP consultants that Trump needed to be “more presidential” and “moderate” his positions — especially, on immigration, Muslims and trade (the very issues that had propelled him to the top).
Trump realized that Manafort’s strategy had boxed him in. Once an outspoken, no-holds barred insurgent, Trump was starting to sound like someone he is not: an inside-the-Beltway politician. Manafort’s Machiavellianism is out; Trump’s brash populism is in.
This is the significance of his decision to bring on Stephen Bannon, the boss of Breitbart News, and Kellyanne Conway, a senior Republican strategist, to run the Trump campaign.
Their motto: Let Trump be Trump. They rightly understand that, for him to succeed, he must be himself — blunt, raw, authentic and politically incorrect. His greatest weapon is that he is a non-politician, someone who is able to viscerally connect with an angry and alienated electorate. His deep appeal rests on the fact that he is wiling to speak truth to power — to expose our corrupt and discredited ruling class.
For on the seminal issues of our day, Trump is right and the elites (both the Obama-Hillary Democrats and the Romney-Ryan Republicans) are wrong.
For over 25 years, our ruling class has engaged in economic treason. They have put the interests (and vast profits) of our transnational corporate elites above those of the American people. Every major trade agreement — NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, Most Favored Nation (MFN) status for China, the U.S.-South Korean trade pact, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — has led to the creation of a New World Order characterized by open borders, the loss of national sovereignty and free trade. The result has been the de-industrialization of America. Since the era of open-borders and free trade, U.S. economic power has been systematically eroded. The costs have been disastrous: Over 60,000 factories have left the United States; 5-6 million good-paying, blue-collar jobs have been outsourced; and our manufacturing base has been gutted.
It’s no wonder Trump’s America First trade policy is resonating in the heartland — especially, in the Midwest and Pennsylvania (the so-called Rust Belt). Working-class citizens have seen their factories, communities and families devastated by economic globalism. Their way of life is dying; they have been betrayed by the elites of both parties, who continue to worship at the altar of free trade while Middle America is being sacrificed to the gods of globalization.
On immigration, Beltway Republicans and liberal Democrats have formed an unholy alliance to swamp the United States with illegal aliens. They provide an endless supply of cheap labor while millions live on government assistance — bankrupting local hospitals, schools and city budgets.
We are under invasion. Whether the number is 11 million (which I don’t believe) or 20 million or even 30 million, illegal immigrants pose a clear and present danger. Our southern border is a bleeding sore. Illegals are stealing jobs, driving down wages and draining vital government resources. Countless murderers, rapists and drug smugglers are pouring across. Crime has exploded in inner cities; the Mexican drug cartels have effectively annexed parts of the border, enabling narcotics to flow unabated into our communities and schools. The result is an unprecedented heroin epidemic across large swathes of New England and the Midwest.
Islamic terrorists are virtually entering at will. ISIL is now in all 50 states; more radical Islamists — from Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Libya — keep coming in every day. Our ruling class’ obsession with open borders and multiculturalism is a recipe for national suicide.
This is why Trump’s call to secure the borders and build a massive wall along Mexico is perhaps his most important proposal. If we do not stop this invasion, then America — as we know it — will cease to exist. The United States will be transformed into a Third-World basket case: a lawless, impoverished and bankrupt nation overrun with criminals, drug lords, terrorists and parasites.
Borders define a country, just as a person’s home is defined by its property lines; strip away its borders and the nation — for all intents and purposes — disappears.
In short, this election is much more than a contest between Trump and Hillary. It is about the future of our constitutional republic. Hillary’s mission — the radical Left’s mission — is to finally drive a stake into the heart of America. She is an unabashed globalist.
Her goals are clear: grant amnesty to all illegal aliens, preserve unlimited mass immigration, bring in an additional 2 million Muslim refugees, plunge us into more endless (and unconstitutional) wars in the Middle East and continue the insane march towards economic globalization and the destruction of the middle- and working-class. She is a Benedict Arnold — a traitor who will do and say anything in her insatiable lust for power and wealth.
Trump, on the other hand, is the very opposite. He is a patriot, who instinctively understands that our country is at a pivotal crossroad. His vision — the restoration of constitutional self-government, economic nationalism, regaining control of our borders, a foreign policy based on realism and defending the national interest, and — above all — his commitment to re-establishing American exceptionalism — is what our country desperately needs. It is also what our country desperately wants, even craves.
This is why Trump, if he stays on message, can win. And win big.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at WorldTribune.com and the host of “The Kuhner Report” weekdays 12-3 pm EST on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.
Jeffrey Kuhner, The dirty little secret about Trump can be summed up in one word: ‘Landslide’, WorldTribune.com, WRKO
Landslide a-cummin!
My #1 reason for supporting Trump is that he is the only candidate who has recognized the problem of TRILLION DOLLAR foreign trade YEARLY deficits, and is the most qualified to do something about it, with first hand experience in making foreign trade deals. This is the main reason why middle class jobs have become scarce. We are literally hollowing out America with unfair foreign trade.
My #2 reason for supporting Trump is stop foreign nation building with BORROWED MONEY!
I also like his stance on building the Wall, get rid of sanctuary cities, cancel and replace Obamacare with something better, reduce regulations on small businesses, improve healthcare for vets, extreme vetting of Muslims coming from terror promoting countries, business tax rate down to 15%, middle class tax cuts, immediate and expedited deportation of illegals with criminal records, against man-made global warming tax, deregulate energy production making us energy independent.
Hillary is EXACTLY OPPOSITE on all above issues. Abstaining from voting for Trump is a direct vote for Hillary.
Don’t forget we the people or popular vote doesn’t win an election, electoral college does. I am sure hillary has the dirt on and the money to sway anything.
His deep appeal rests on the fact that he is wiling to speak truth to power — to expose our corrupt and discredited ruling class.
One fist of iron
The other of steel
If one fist don't get you
then the other one will
> How does one man defeat the entire combined might of the GOPe, Dims, LaRaza, K-Street, Special Interest and consultants...?
Smite them with Non-PC talk and follow up with the Hammer of Truth.
And this is how he does it
In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth. 
1)...Trump puts out a statement (non PC and controversial) the RH plane in above illustration.
2)...MSM and pundits jumps on it (the Zero in above illustration)
3)...Raging controversy generated ...Trump in the news cycle for a whole week
4)....Trumps Wing Man...(TRUTH)...shoots down MSM and pundits. Note that Trump has 2 or 3 of these going on at the same time
MSM, Pundits and Progressives discombobulated.
In this situation he’s directly over the target.
I see Trump winning this in the biggest landslide in modern American history.
Ya see millions of PO’d Americans simply stopped voting over the past several decades because the endless lies and decline, etc. They got fed up and simply stopped for lots very justified reasons.
It’s a safe bet millions of those folks will come out of the woodwork this election just for the payback factor alone.
A real safe bet.
I’m not arguing that point, is IS going to be a landslide.
“It’s what the misinformed and tge uninformed are not getting. And that’s not even including liberals who want the country to fail, who want a successful cantiamerican criminal in the White House running the country eliminating talk radio, the Internet, our borders, our Christianity”
And helping to plant the seeds of a future REVOLT.
If I can be honest, nearly everyone I know on the west coast stopped voting at some point over the last two decades. The reasons varied ie; No one to vote for, Nothing but corrupt business as usual professional lawyer politicians running. When those in CA did vote the feds working in concert with the state co-conspirators burned the state ballots and declared our elections illegal, (CA Prop 187), Things in this country just became worse and worse, regardless which lawyer politicians got elected. Year in year out.
Again, the payback vengeance factor alone is going to be big in this election.
I don’t disagree with what you wrote, but nobody knows how to read this thing reliably because we saw a powerful surge in the “get out the vote” efforts by the rats in the last two Presidential elections. Was it the excitement of Obama or a reliable indicator of what we will see in November? I don’t know.
The outreach of Trump to reliably democrat voters is gaining traction. The media is desperately trying to ignore this. If Trump is successful with this he will take the swing states. Hillary’s CANNOT afford defections among those who voted twice for Obama - simply can’t do it.
Trump appears to have hit his stride and if he can stay on task he should continue to pick up steam. He has the better message. Hillary is promising more of the same and pointing out minority Olympians as if we somehow did not appreciate, love, and cheer for them? Trump is promising America first, security and law and order, and jobs. When 70% think we are on the wrong track that is a pretty good position to be in.
The danger to the Dumbocrats and the MSM is they believe their own bovine scatology. Nobody else but dyed in the wool Dumbocrats agree with them. Everyone else can see right through it.
Finally.
Remember, ALGORE lost his home state of Tennessee on his gun control issues. Had he won there, Florida would have not been necessary. A whole lot of Democrats, Independents and Republicans own guns, especially the AR15. It's been dubbed "America's Rifle" for a reason! I think I read recently that stocks nationwide have been flying off the shelves at the rate of 15K per day! Not all of them are investments, either. Guns are the 800 pound Gorilla in the room that nobody is talking about.
Trump needs to hire me as his campaign manager. I’m series and hugh ...
You know what would be cool, one of those black and photos of Trump smiling and holding up a newspaper that says “Hillary wins” ...
Thank you
Trump Wins in NOV
NH
NY
NJ
PA
The entire South
Ohio
Michigan
Iowa
The Plain & Mountain States
Hillary Wins
Maine
Vermont
RI
CT
Wis
Minn
Wasington
Oregon
California
Too close To call but Likely Trump
Colorado
NM
For a long time I’ve contended it will be a Trump blowout win in November. Just like he cleared the stage of 16 career professional expert politicians. He’ll do the same with Clinton.
If not, America will lose big league.
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