Trump - and no one seems to care
While communists and fascists sprouted all around them in the early 1900s I've wondered how the good people felt watching it all go on. Now I know.
"As the campaign season goes forward, we’re learning more about Donald Trump’s politics and seeing his initial ebullient puckishness too often give way to self-referential arrogance and venomous hubris. Now is a good time for Trump supporters to use this new information to revisit their original conclusion about him and to realize, with no shame attached, that he’s not the candidate they thought he was."
But they won't. They are emotionally invested. Now they are all in.
"That was then. This is now. Now the opposition research is finally coming to light, and it seems that Trump (shame on him, not shame on you) has been lying to America’s conservatives. Up until he threw himself into this election cycle, Trump was the very model of a modern elite Progressive. Moreover, as the campaign progresses, his current statements give the lie to his past promises. Specifically:"
It's a long list.
"Trump’s stability: When his run for the White House was still something of a lark, Trump’s pugnacious style was leavened with a bit of humor and cheer. He was his reality-TV self -- pushy, outspoken, but kind of goofy/funny. Recently, though Trump has become darker and meaner in his attacks on his opponents?
It started with the spat with Megyn Kelly. If Trump wanted to make war with the media . . . well, whatever. Since then, though, Trump’s increasingly in your face, vicious, and often obscene or bizarre attacks on his primary opponents are becoming worrisome.
Take, for example, Trump calling Cruz a “pussy.” This is silly because Cruz is disliked by Senate RINOs because he is willing to stand and fight. What’s more upsetting is that a candidate would use a sexual insult in a national forum. It’s worse than just tone, though. The bigger issue is whether we want as President someone who resorts to obscene school yard name-calling in a fight. (See also Trump’s recent claims that he’ll going to sue Cruz for just about everything.)
The South Carolina primary revealed some other cracks in the Trump facade. He didn’t look like a happy warrior when he kept saying Rubio “sweats” too much to be effective or when he went full Daily Kos against Jeb and embraced the “Bush lied, people died” mantra. Instead, he looked feral and unstable.
Trump’s South Carolina performance made for dynamic reality TV, but an American president is real life. Angry hysteria will be a problem in the Situation Room during a crisis or when engaged in delicate debates with foreign leaders. If you believe, as John Podhoretz does, that Trump went beyond the pale in South Carolina, you need to think about his future performance as president."
www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/turning_against_trump.html
"As the campaign season goes forward, we’re learning more about Donald Trump’s politics and seeing his initial ebullient puckishness too often give way to self-referential arrogance and venomous hubris. Now is a good time for Trump supporters to use this new information to revisit their original conclusion about him and to realize, with no shame attached, that he’s not the candidate they thought he was."
But they won't. They are emotionally invested. Now they are all in.
"That was then. This is now. Now the opposition research is finally coming to light, and it seems that Trump (shame on him, not shame on you) has been lying to America’s conservatives. Up until he threw himself into this election cycle, Trump was the very model of a modern elite Progressive. Moreover, as the campaign progresses, his current statements give the lie to his past promises. Specifically:"
It's a long list.
"Trump’s stability: When his run for the White House was still something of a lark, Trump’s pugnacious style was leavened with a bit of humor and cheer. He was his reality-TV self -- pushy, outspoken, but kind of goofy/funny. Recently, though Trump has become darker and meaner in his attacks on his opponents?
It started with the spat with Megyn Kelly. If Trump wanted to make war with the media . . . well, whatever. Since then, though, Trump’s increasingly in your face, vicious, and often obscene or bizarre attacks on his primary opponents are becoming worrisome.
Take, for example, Trump calling Cruz a “pussy.” This is silly because Cruz is disliked by Senate RINOs because he is willing to stand and fight. What’s more upsetting is that a candidate would use a sexual insult in a national forum. It’s worse than just tone, though. The bigger issue is whether we want as President someone who resorts to obscene school yard name-calling in a fight. (See also Trump’s recent claims that he’ll going to sue Cruz for just about everything.)
The South Carolina primary revealed some other cracks in the Trump facade. He didn’t look like a happy warrior when he kept saying Rubio “sweats” too much to be effective or when he went full Daily Kos against Jeb and embraced the “Bush lied, people died” mantra. Instead, he looked feral and unstable.
Trump’s South Carolina performance made for dynamic reality TV, but an American president is real life. Angry hysteria will be a problem in the Situation Room during a crisis or when engaged in delicate debates with foreign leaders. If you believe, as John Podhoretz does, that Trump went beyond the pale in South Carolina, you need to think about his future performance as president."
www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/turning_against_trump.html