When Donald Trump first announced that he would run for
President of the U.S. I predicted that he would indeed become the Republican
nominee, and eventually, the President.
I stand by that prediction. As I
blogged in March, Trump is a phenomenon, not just a standard Republican
candidate. He is taking advantage and
riding the wave of a (western) world-wide disaffection and disenchantment with
the status quo. Brexit proved that over
liberalization and too much political correctness and too many rules, coupled
with ill-defined and weak leadership from the EU would not be tolerated. The Trump phenomenon is proving the same in
the U.S.
Trump takes on all comers – corrupt, weak, unjust, i.e., the
establishment. He calls it the way it
is. He hits at not only inner beltway
abuses, but also the biased news media that supports the ineptitude and
corruption and injustice in Washington. His
targets are not only Obama and Hillary.
Inept and vituperative Republicans are not spared. CNN and NBC and NYT are slanted against
him? Who cares? Many of us get our news and read opinions on
social media these days, and Trump & Co. are masters of the Internet, and
of the media in general. He is not just
a candidate, he is a populist phenomenon.
Already the biased media talking heads and similarly biased
“opinion” pieces start their barrage against Trump. “Fascist”, “racist”, “hate monger”,
“demagogue” and worse. These peoponents
of the status quo and opponents of change fail to see the meaning of Brexit in
England and the euroskeptic movements in Europe. People are fed up with middle road apologists,
their so-called ”political correctness” and their “only we know what’s best for
you” attitudes. The reactions and the results
are not always pretty. Beata Szydlo of
Poland and Viktor Orban of Hungary are recent examples of not too pretty right
wing (and almost neo-fascist) democratically elected governments.
Inveterate intellectual Democrats will not be dis-abused of
their shop worn and disproven socialist theories and will vote for Hillary no
matter what. Those who are truly
intellectually honest will acknowledge the morass that our country is in and
will hold their nose and vote for Trump and for change and law and order. Hopefully so will Bernie followers without
jobs drowning in college debt who see Trump as a jobs oriented leader. So will dis-satisfied and disenfranchised
middle class Americans stuck with no jobs or low paying jobs. And so many more of us who are just fed up
with virtually no leadership out of Washington, a cynical disregard for law and
order, and liberal rhetoric that encroaches on our morals and ethics and
religious beliefs with “political correctness”.
We have had enough already.
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