I suspect Donald Trump in kindergarten called more than one kid
a poo-poo head. I’ll bet he also called his teacher that as well, to their
face, to see what he could get away with.
He didn’t know what it meant, and it doesn’t make sense, but
his tendency to say things just to get attention had to start somewhere.
And he’s still doing it.
He’s said he’d build a wall on our southern border and
Mexico would pay for it. He’s said that Mexico is sending us their murderers
and rapists as illegal immigrants. He’s said he would prevent certain children born
here from automatically gaining U.S. citizenship. More recently he said we should
ban all Muslims from entering the country.
He constantly says things that make no sense or would clearly
violate our Constitution and laws. Maybe he really believes he can do these
things, which would make him as crazy as a shit-house rat. However, I think he
does it for the attention; it’s just more reality-TV show biz.
His supporters eat it up.
No matter how outrageous and looney-tune his claims, no matter how nasty
and personal his attacks, such as mocking that physically disabled reporter, or
his “Look at that face …” comment about Carly Fiorina, they are still with him all the way.
In fact, the more obnoxious he is the greater his
popularity. Every time he goes way over
the line, his poll numbers actually go up. He gets rewarded for incredibly bad
behavior.
So he keeps doing it.
And he keeps upping the rhetoric.
Teachers would call it “testing
behavior”: seeing how far he can push something before he gets punished. But he’s
running for President of the United States, not class clown.
In general, I believe the rabid Trump supporters who cheer
every nutso thing he says – regardless of how embarrassingly wrong, bigoted, or
ignorant of the facts that may be –
frankly scare the bejesus out of many of us. They often come across as a mob of
prejudiced, know-nothings that in an earlier age would be burning witches at the
stake, or crosses in the yards of Jews and blacks; they are looking for someone
to reinforce their darkest thoughts and Trump delivers.
I also have both Republican and Democrat friends
who are now ardent Trump supporters despite all this, and who don’t fit the
standard Trump profile of low education, low information voters. To be completely honest, there are times when
I think I could vote for him, too.
Mainly what those friends and I have in common is complete disgust
with the political establishment and the way the country is being run. We no
longer trust our government to protect us, defend American values, or even
honor the Constitution and laws of this land.
We perceive that politicians in both parties are more focused
on dividing us into ever smaller single-issue segments to get or stay in power
than addressing our collective concerns. And we see government getting bigger
and bigger, more intrusive, more wasteful with our money, and with increasing
numbers of bureaucrats who can’t or won’t be held accountable for their
misdeeds.
We’ve had it up to here with political correctness, the
fawning media coverage of Democrats in general and Obama in particular, and the progressive agenda to put government in charge of every aspect of our lives. We’re saddened to see that our allies no
longer trust us and our adversaries no longer fear us. We worry that the
timidity of our current leaders is putting us all in danger.
In our hearts I think we want a revolution but we’re not
sure how to make that happen, or even who we can count on to lead it. Maybe
that’s why we’re looking outside the box.
We want someone to stand up and set things right. Electing Trump
is the closest thing we have to a lawful revolution. Yet giving Trump the Republican nomination, or
having Trump run a third-party campaign, virtually insures a landslide victory for
Democrats next November.
As it is, Trump is the best thing the Democrats could have
wished for.
Right now Trump is getting press and support for all the
wrong reasons.
Unfortunately there’s no one who can really stop him except
himself. Cruz is Trump-lite. Carson can’t hold up in the long run. Jeb is probably best qualified but seems a bit too wonky. Kasich is too whiney.
So that leaves Rubio.
Or as Trump would call him: poo-poo head.
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