Rex Murphy surveys the American political landscape, as only Rex can.
Is anything Trump has said more staggering or depressing than the idea that in egalitarian America, a couple of small-time business owners can get fined $135,000 for not baking a cake? Where deviation from any of the “progressive dogmas” lights Internet fires and Twitter outrage flash mobs? More absurd than banning American soldiers the right to bear arms on their own bases and their home soil? More absurd than Fort Hood’s slaughter of 13 by a self-professed jihadi being labelled “workplace violence”?
Well, except for me, in the past 7 years of blog postings.
I still don’t understand why people have a problem with Trump running as a serious candidate.
It baffles my mind, in America to my understanding it is a country that allows ANYONE to run for the office of the presidency. Rex Murphy must like all media renounce ,denounce Trump it is required of al media folks and others no matter how well Trump is doing or how successful he has been in his life.
I find it truly amazing (not in Canada though we hate success here and successful people) that a billionaire businessman is shunned by the people and media elites such as Rex Murphy and the likes as some kind of weirdo but a farmer/actor (Reagan) was some kind of hero . Who cares where you come from the presidency of the United States of America does not have a litmus test of qualifications I find it staggeringly rediculous how many people lothe Trump. Why?
Is it because he was handed a very successful business by his father? What father would not want to pass that onto his child with the best hopes and intentions and groom his child to take it over? Is it because Trump has not bungled it all up? Is it because the few bankruptcies that Trump has had he has managed to come back from ?
I know it must because Trump starred on a reality T.V. show that was succeful in getting his name and brand out there? Or surely it must be his lack of linguistic intricacies to describe things such as illegal aliens as being “undocumented workers” .
I will say this Any ANY candidate you do support currently running for the presidency would love to have the money success and power the Trump name has and would love the opportunity to star in a reality tv show to get their name out there but for some the opportunity is not there and others it’s not their bag.
I truly believe that many in here and out in the real world truly despise a Trump presidential run because they are the very thing they claim to hate. Political elitists like as though Trump didn’t go to HAA VAAD university he only went to one of the best economic colleges in the U.S. So there for is unacceptable right?
I think also people in this blog and across North America don’t like Trump because he hits back….usually harder. I can’t think of a better person to run for president than Trump a successful business man who truly loves his country and is tired of seeing it torn to shreds by his fellow American s like Obama , pelosi and the political elitist classes and also big business, big pharma ect that game the system with big pay offs to corrupt politicians willing to sell America down the river to the highest bidder Trump cannot and will not be bought and that’s a great thing he knows money has a lot of it so it means nothing to him, as well as power.
Also for all of you idiots in here who read this and speak like Rex Murphy about trump and America . Let me straighten you out.
America is a constitution republic it is not a democracy not is it democratic.
In addition , America needs a business man to fix its problems because America can fight terrorism as long as it has the money to do so, it can defend itself , it can do many things but with out money and an economy it’s finished and I think Trump is the right man for the job he is strong and a natural leader with a good business sense .
Trump/Cruz 2016
Oh yeah the above comment to this one is suppose to say constitutional republic and nor is it democratic
Great comment after the article Kate.
Just one more day, week, year, of sticking Donald in their damn Ryan RINO,
and Pelosi democrat faces.
Piss on them, I enjoy hearing them whine,
and making them cry,
the more Donald we can keep sticking it to them,
Real good and hard..
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Canadian Rex telling us all about the Donald,
and he has the camp counselor Justin.
The American people deserve Trump’s poll standing for having elected the Obama-Nation™ TWICE.
Ted Cruz is well spoken and intelligent; but I enjoy Trump’s brash manner because it OFFENDS ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE. If you support free speech, that means you support offensive speech.
Just seeing Ms Pelosi have a case of the vapours, as she slides into apoplexy is entertainment value in and of itself.
It’s delightful to see all the trough-wallowers in the Washington, DC belt to even have a glimmer that someone might take their lollypop of cash grease away and give it to someone else.
Government isn’t about some nebulous concept called ‘the electorate of voters’ but rather who gets to spread cash around to family, friends and insiders like a veritable manure spreader in springtime.
Oh and did I mention, FROHE WEIHNACHTEN!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
anybody using the words ‘America’ and ‘democracy’ in the same sentence, please explain how that go**mn ‘electoral college’ winner-take-ALL thing fits YOUR narrative.
I wonder what the ‘point of no return’ is with the U.S. debt. 25 trillion? 80 trillion? when ALL escape hatches are blocked and hyperinflation becomes imminent. and a world wide economic collapse to match all others combined.
we live in interesting times. we are all going to have to rehearse and practice survival methods applicable to various situations. as an example, the hapless $135,000 cake people, instead of outright refusal, could have repeatedly ‘accidentally screwed up’ the order. oopsie, wrong size, oopsie wrong colour for the icing, oopsie we burnt it. oopsie oopsie oopsie. FAR more difficult for the faggotry to claim discrimination.
and regarding court orders like that, I had a premonition, a vision, years ago of some other hapless bloke showing up in a gay bar to show ‘tolerance’ for a gay co-worker, and winding up ORDERED by a judgey-judge to submit to homosexual sex in accordance with some ‘verbal agreement’ ‘witnessed’ by the bar patrons. or face serious prison time for ‘breach of contract’. ridiculous? where have YOU been?
and regarding the judgey-judges that make these rulings, google actress Kim Basinger’s experience when *she* backed out of a verbal DISCUSSION related to involvement in a movie she later realize was utter crud. ‘boxing helena’. nothing in writing, no contractual obligations, just a back and forth negotiation that went nowhere and never reach formalization. but sure enough the corrupt judgey-judge ruled against her.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-01/entertainment/ca-150_1_boxing-helena-lawsuit
in legal circles, precedent carries a lot of weight.
Good for a laugh.
“Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald Trump”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRly-0wwl_g
“His campaign is, by all wise people, deplored. ”
Rex is the Obi-Wan of Cananda.
I agree. Kate’s comment was particularly poignant considering that now, three months later, this hollow piece of humanity referred to is now the figurehead leader of Canada.
Rex Murphy was absolutely correct. He might want to extend that line of thinking to Canada as well.
Hans, “but I enjoy Trump’s brash manner because it OFFENDS ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE.” Exactly, and well said. Hopefully he actually wins and shakes up the whole political cesspool that the US has sunk to.
Frohe Weihnachten to you Hans!
Merry Christmas to all who frequent here, and a Happy New Year!
Glenn Reynolds says MUST READ. Cagle believes that a Trump presidency would be a disaster. Obviously! But the best choice disaster I think.
Frank Cagle: Trump’s foes must appeal to supporters
http://www.knoxnews.com/opinion/columnists/frank-cagle/frank-cagle-trumps-foes-must-appeal-to-supporters-26f33c9e-7cf2-71ed-e053-0100007ffa88-362532971.html?d=mobile
Oh, Trump’s not all bad. I like that he’s in favour of:
– Universal health care: “I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare.”
– Replacing Obamacare with…Universal Trumpcare:
The Donald: “I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.”
60 Minutes: “The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?”
The Donald: “They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably–”
60 Minutes: “Make a deal? Who pays for it?”
The Donald: “–the government’s gonna pay for it. But we’re going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it’s going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.”
– Saving Medicare: “You can’t get rid of Medicare. It’d be a horrible thing to get rid of. It actually works. You get rid of the fraud, waste and abuse — it works.”
– Eliminating income tax for the lower income half of all American households: “If you are single and earn less than $25,000, or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you will not owe any income tax.”
– Closing corporate and personal tax loopholes: “The Trump tax cuts are fully paid for by [in part] reducing or eliminating deductions and loopholes available to the very rich…an end to the deferral of taxes on corporate income earned abroad. Corporations will no longer be allowed to defer taxes on income earned abroad…[and] reducing or eliminating some corporate loopholes that cater to special interests.”
kt, just when I thought I had read some pretty stupid comment before yours, along you come, and go OFF topic, which is a lefty diversion tactic, tried and true. Yours is one good example of effing stupid voters. I think you even surpass, in here, paul from Calgary, who’s comment started out so stupid I didn’t bother reading it
and Hans, you dare make a judgmental comment, all the while disregarding and disrespecting Kate’s wishes. Yah you, the great hypocritical kristian. Another example of why Dumb Donald is doing so well. Your ego says it all, an excellent example of what is wrong in NA politics
And let’s not forget TRADE.
Trump’s view of trade as warfare.
Or that the beggar-thy-neighbour Smoot-Hawley trade tariffs were a major contributor to the Great Depression.
Nor his attitude toward eminent domain: the seizure of private property by private developers which is a grotesque distortion of the constitutional intent of this law, namely for public use.
Nor that as a real estate developer he’s fond of DEBT.
And NO government is not like business. He can’t just do what he wishes.
BUT, he’s still my preferred presidential disaster. I believe his solutions will be the least impossible. And it’ll be great fun.
The mediocrity is the message, or, has it now been eclipsed by absurdity?
Each day we are assailed by dozens of examples of state stupidity and greed – that are so blatant and bizarre as to defy credulity – heaped upon the shoulders of a shallow and slorky public that meekly accepts (and so deserves) every humiliation and confiscation.
Rex sucking and blowing at the same time, although he does so with his typical high minded intellectualism.
Canada’s media is corrupt and irretreivably broken, worse than in the usa, and that is what has allowed identity politics and progressivism to flourish.
And Rex has and continues to cash his pay cheques.
Rex is simply a token journalist in the kabuki theatre that the progressive media complex.
Rex nails it…Trump is the swamp monster, but he didn’t create the swamp.
He points out, as usual, the media’s over reaction to Trump while ignoring the lefts behaviour.
While I have cringed at Trumps boorish way, I have delighted in what he is saying, and as mentioned “he offends the right people”.
I remain very suspicious of Trumps relationship with the Clinton’s.
Wow and here I have always thought of Rex as a voice worth listening to. I think he is somewhat blinded by the CBC mindset here.
Sure his summation as to what led to the rise of Trump has a lot of good points but Trump himself has repeatedly stated that after the last two failed GOP presidential hopefuls he decided to do it himself this time. All the power to him and from where I stand a breath of fresh air and a shake up of “in the bubble” crowd.
I have stated before that I would vote for him for the reasons that he speaks without the PC blinders on, has proven business insights and speaks to subject areas no one else has the guts to. Rex should concern himself more with our own drama teacher’s rise to the top of the sheite pile we call Canadian politics.
bverwey
If you have the good (mis) fortune to have someone posting on social media the misinformation of the occupy Democrats or the spins promoted by Unifor or AJ 1 you will understand how insightful this price by Rex is . They make Trump look very moderate. Overall Canada ,U. S. , we need much better.
Paul, I see it kind of the way you do.
Trudeau and the other statists represent pop politics, but ironically so does the campaign of Trump, who has bypassed both federal parties, the self- appointed intelligentsia and the mediocracy to take his case for POTUS directly to the American people in some sort of political hostile takeover of domestic politics.
He loves to see people freak out over him as he grabs headlines and poll leads. He is the progressive statists’ worst nightmare, but as Rex opines, of their own making as voters, first in the GOP, and perhaps independents and unhappy Dems, as voters reject establishment top down political culture, living in false narratives of identity and AGW politics rather than reality of the new terrorism paradigm.
In a crude sort of way, Trump may be returning common sense to US politics; we’ll all see how far that can go. Personally, I’m less concerned about his politics of division than the statist wedge mushy politics of pop stars posing as politicians.
Nice hair taken out by bad hair is blowback to statists insistence their ideas of spending money irresponsibly, in futile social justice experiments that hurts the poorest most, is wise or evidence of good government.
Rex Murphy’s diatribe is excellent, particularly with Kate’s qualifying comment to ensure Canada is in no way held above the well described US political swamp. The utterly bankrupt world-wide welfare states are doing anything and everything to distract from reality. Swollen political classes and uber-swollen bureaucracies are collapsing civilization as the citizenry shrinks in all things rational while swelling in debt, entitlement-slavery and even grotesque stature from caloric excess.
While Trump has easily captured the sentiments of much of the coalition that identifies with the GOP, he is a loose cannon populist lacking in principles that burden rational but far less popular candidates such as Rand Paul. It’s the 52% of Americans living off of various government assistance, permanent bureaucracy, the brain dead and progressive left that Trump has to crack if he ends up the candidate and hopes to win the general election. Any candidate alive or dead from the GOP would make a better President than what the Democrats are offering but in a republic thoroughly corrupted by what passes for democracy they would be following Canada’s lead if they put Hillary back in the White House. After all, we followed their lead when we anointed the Spawn.
Sez Rex:
“Trump is not the swamp: he is the creature emerging from it.” CYA much, Rex? And if you are looking for a simulacrum for The Creature From The Black Lagoon you might want to look in the mirror.
Sez Rex:
“For however ridiculous and appalling his candidacy may be, it is no worse and no more ridiculous and appalling than the whole pattern of American politics at this time.”
Two points:
Point one: The first amendment of the U.S,. Constitution is there specifically to protect the freedom of the press. A free press is absolutely necessary for democracy to work via an informed electorate. America is not corrupt. It is that Americans are not just uniformed but they have been misinformed by a corrupt media. Ditto for Canada.
Point two: My own rule is: if you want to take the measure of a man, look at his children and look at what he has built. I would say to Rex: “Get off your butt and look at the images of Trump’s children and his holdings.” You call Trump ridiculous and appalling? Rex, old buddy, you are no judge of horseflesh.
IMHO the media and the political class are outraged at Trump because he IS NOT one of THEM, he’s the ultimate outsider in that realm of ass-kissing cronyism, and worse,they can’t destroy him with their feeble words.
Trump was left a fortune, as were the Democrat Kennedy’s, and he made it bigger, no sin there.
But his biggest “negative” is he doesn’t respect or kowtow to the current politically correct theater of life that infests all of society but especially the political realm and their hyenas in the media.
Trump’s candidacy is like porn actor Ron Jeremy announcing he’s going to audition for the role of “Hamlet” at Stratford!!
Once sufficient parasite flourish, then something will evolve that eats parasites.
Nature fills all voids.
If we dumb hosts figure on enjoying the fruits of our labour and leisure to pursue our own interests, we have no choice but to revolt against the oppressive weight of greedy useless bastards who insist they have the right to take our wealth and direct our lives.
Democracy was interesting, up till the parasites realized how lucrative voting themselves other peoples money can be.
Which begat Kleptocracy.
If the average income earner is now paying 50% of their for being “governed”, the kleptocracy is peaking.
Government by thieves for thieves is unstable.
Makers stop.
Those that must produce, produce just enough.
Trade collapses.
As laws increasingly protect the thieves and hurt the producers,law and order collapse.
Our money is already gone, a fiat dollar depends of perception and blind trust.
Which will vanish in an eye blink.
Trump is the Candidate of the time.
After MacCain and Romney, …..WTF were the Republicans thinking?,
Trump Cruz is what the “Party” fears most and richly deserves.
From the outside, the GOP and Democrats look like the Club of Parasites, totally out of touch with the needs and health of their host country.
In both USA and Canada we citizens would be far less evilly served, by choosing our politicians from the list of jury duty eligible citizens, by random draw.
Anything is saner than a creature who gushes;”Trust me,I want to be your leader”
And willingly embraces the circus and self degradation that running for office has become.
Give Trump his due, he concedes nothing, slamming the slimers at every opportunity.
Many, years ago I read Trump’s Art of The Deal and his own words showed me that he could never be trusted. How he treated Conrad Hilton did it for me.
Further to the equation there is this fine piece you may or may not have read that I find very interesting. I have friends who knew Boyd very well.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/16/military-strategist-explains-why-donald-trump-leads-and-how-he-will-fail/
Rex Murphy’s thoughts on Trump and his supporters is nothing more than the usual anti-American rhetoric from another fake-conservative in Canada’s disgraceful and corrupt media. Rex Murphy is a tool.
I’ve never thought of Rex as a conservative or liberal. He’s a commentator.
Trump is a result of the Clinton’s,zero, and many others. An American backlash to 100 years of progressive politicals going back to the start of it all with Teddy Roosevelt.
He may succeed but even if he doesn’t there are a lot of America’s who are fed up and will be heard from at some point.
Kinda has shades of Germany between the wars.
I really don’t see Rex being critical of Trump. He recognizes that he’s writing to a liberal/politically correct crowd. He has no hope of getting them past the first paragraph, much less changing their minds, if he were to defend Trump. So he writes about the PC/DC cultural and political swamp with the hope of getting people to see how they’ve become part of it. So he’s not really writing about Trump at all; that part is just click bait so to speak. Nor is he writing to us. If he offends some of us that’s no loss, he is confident in not being about to change our minds. But if he can get a few progressives to think he has done well.
I read the Art of the Deal too. I wonder if Donald Trump read it – more likely he rambled stream-of-consciousness into a tape recorder and someone cadged it together for him.
The reason that Trump has the press so befuddled is that he is operating under a completely different paradigm than they are used to. The press is used to people talking in bland, focus-group-tested, practiced messages. They are used to dealing with politicians who are scared of losing votes.
But that’s not the game Trump is playing. He has a hammer – high-stakes real estate deals – and everything is a nail. So he approaches his candidacy as if it was a real estate deal. He’s selling something, so he sets his opening price much higher than he is willing to accept. It’s the starting point of the negotiation, not the carefully-crafted final deal.
So, he starts with the opening bid of No Muslim Immigration Until We Figure Things Out. The howls of protest are the responding bid from the buyers (the voters). If he was President and actually had to deal with the issue, he’d respond with some lower bid, say, no immigration from a select group of nations, particularly Iraq and Syria, until ISIS is defeated. And back and forth it would go until he had The Deal, which would be much less than his original position but still closer to it than is the case currently.
But he isn’t President and doesn’t have to deal with the issue yet. Instead, he is indeed inside his opponents’ OODA loop (with perhaps the exception of Cruz) and can just keep throwing out these opening bids on issue after issue faster than the others can reorient. His tempo is so high they just can’t keep up. By the time they have a coherent, focus-group-tested response, he’s already had a crack at two more issues.
Trumps biggest advantage is that he’s not part of the incestuous political establishment. My preference would be for Rand Paul, but Trump is likely going to win the Republican nomination and end up as POTUS. The best thing that could happen to the US now is for meteors to wipe out both Washington DC and Wall street, but having Trump as a bull in the china shop of US politics would be a good second choice.
It also helps that Putin has endorsed trump. It’s a sad situation where Putin is now the most reasonable political figure in the world today. People are fed up with imbecilic self-serving politicians who are all beholden to special interests. US foreign policy has been a total disaster and Trump is far less likely to leave behind a trail of failed states in the middle east which is the Nobel peace prize winners legacy. An isolationist US would be a very good thing.
The majority of the American people are fed up with globalism and the destruction of the US industrial base which has just benefited the very rich. The only question is whether Trump will have a chance to implement his policies or whether he’ll have one of the unfortunate nailgun incidents that plague those people who don’t play the international banksters game.
Kinda has shades of Germany between the wars.
YES.
And you didn’t get caught by Godwin’s law. LOL.
Tho I think fewer and fewer people are worried about that law now.
In the immortal words of occasional commenter dwright, “screw Godwin’s law, the Nazis are here. Or words close to that.
Kate’s comment: Shades of 2004 when I first set foot in here. I didn’t get it. I read the Rex piece.
Someone explain?
Kate won’t deign to explain!
Trump has a GIANT ego. No one disputes this.
In this instance this could be a big positive.
Being a egomaniacal blowhard he will not want failure to taint his “brand”.
Also, as an extremely successful businessman, he will chuck what doesn’t work. And quickly. To paraphrase the Canadian dauphin, he’s your basic good businessman …. he can turn on a dime.
If he becomes prez I will be fascinated to see him in action on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Indications are that he believes it’s Israel’s responsibility to solve this. Someone said his position is exactly the same as Obama’s. Will he learn quickly and abandon this permanently unsolvable problem?
Question: Is Trump a man of good character? Is it important?
The best answer for 8 years of O’Bummer is Trump 2016.
Meno
See Kate’s comment at the linked NP article.
Oh, I see. I didn’t go to the comments there.
I shall, thanks.
“His campaign is, by all wise people, deplored. ”
As the CLEAR frontrunner, Trump’s critics are throwing all the mud, stones, and kitchen sinks that they can think of at him.
And they keep missing, or all being deflected by his “force field”.
The other candidates hate the one simple fact that is undeniable. Trump has caught the imagination of the majority of GOP voters, adn that cannot be taken away. Cruz is still being coy, and classy.
Jeb comes across as a mealy mouthed loser.
If not for that stupid, ill-thought out hug of OBungles, Christie might just be a real solid challenger, he says all the right things, and is also a pretty straight shooter, but he discredited himself with that effin hug, and the GOP base has not forgotten.
GO TRUMP. Its the best thing for America. A throwback POTUS, much required, to reverse the disastrous direction of the Kenyan administration.
Rex should also be concerned about Canada and its political correctness…the yoga fiasco at the University of Ottawa, the man jailed in Toronto for speaking out against Muslims, the handling of the transgender issue (how many are there and why are we making such an issue of it?) and of course the rise of Mr Justin Trudeau, an unqualified buffoon riding on his father’s legacy who believes he’s the new Canadian royalty in a Muslim robe. Don’t forget there’s our wonderful media who only give their rendition of the news especially news concerning the refugees and the problems some are causing over in Germany and Denmark. And why can’t we get FOX news in Canada when it’s in countries all over the world.
I give credit to Trump for speaking out for people who think what he is saying but don’t say it. Go Trump and Cruz…should be an interesting year in American politics.
Paul in Calgary; I have not read any other comments before responding to yours. Thank you for speaking out.
Is it possible for any other American to Campaign in the Corrupt Washington Dual Establishment goal of protecting their sinecures. Mr. Trump is doing what has to be done to break the duopoly of Like Political Partys and the Smearedia of any all things which have not been indocrinated through the Columbia School of Journalism.
Donald Trump has forced a changed meme every time he says something the Sleazy Triumvirate of Democrat/Repulican/Smearedia go into their Faux Indignation. Even FOX which for some reason slides closer to the CBS than the approach which has made them the top source for American News.
Rex & Kate are correct what is happening in the interminable Four year long U.S.A. Presidential Campaign is different and what is an important indicator is the reduction of appearances of Mr. Rove on Fox without his White Board and the amazing number of Republican Politicos on MSNBC.
Nothing wrong with Trump if you believe change is necessary in the “Great Experiment” of the Sovereign Ordinary Citizen.
Loki you get the cigar. checkmate game over!…Nothing to support Hollywood nonsense….
The lost generation needs more crack to chase their vapor induced vision. Brain dead is brain dead.
I will up your anti, Paul in Calgary, Don Morris, John Robertson, and Loki each get a cigar, with Paul getting first choice of brand for getting the ball rolling as to why the media and establishment hate Trump so much.
Mikesr, I think you should also get a cigar for,”Is it possible for any other American to Campaign in the Corrupt Washington Dual Establishment goal of protecting their sinecures. Mr. Trump is doing what has to be done to break the duopoly of Like Political Partys and the Smearedia of any all things which have not been indoctrinated through the Columbia School of Journalism.”
What the heck, so should DanBC and Marigold.
Well, that should be darn near a whole box of Havana’s
Canada is in much of the same boat. Our local MLA dropped off a turkey yesterday which I paid a certain amount for and in which a donation was included. During a short political discussion I mentioned that I was quite sick of the Laurentian Elite and their various members running this country for their benefit.
“slorky”?
What does that mean, or did you make it up?
“The only question is whether Trump will have a chance to implement his policies or whether he’ll have one of the unfortunate nailgun incidents that plague those people who don’t play the international banksters game.”
*bingo!* He needs the BEST in security!
As a Canadian who has spent many winters in the USA I have to agree with Paul. Trump is probably the best thing that could ever happen to the US. He is obviously a highly intelligent business man who has made billions of dollars in the time the US Government has rack up almost 20 trillion in debt.
In my humble opinion I think that Mr. Trump recognizes the true threat to our western way of life. He is willing to call a spade a spade . This total lack of any vestige of common sense that permeates the political systems in the USA, Canada and Europe is being dragged out of hiding into plain sight.
“The Donald” is a very wealthy man and cannot be bought unlike the majority of political operatives. There are very powerful individuals( George Soros comes to mind) who are sweating bullets at the thought of President Trump. I am sure that he would do his best to force these shadowy characters into the light.
He has no hidden agenda. I think he cares about his country , his children and his grandchildren. He is considerably smarter than the pundits and the media and he continues to outwit them at every turn.
I think the election of Mr. Trump might help contain the damage that our shiny pony is planning for our country. Look what junior has done in 2 months. It is startling.
Marigold you can get Fox News on satellite either Shaw of Bell. You have to get their news packages .
“His campaign is, by all wise people, deplored. ”
Well…actually a lot of wise people only PRETEND to deplore Trump’s campaign.
Kind of like Rex Murphy is doing.
Rex actually likes Donald Trump but can not really say it, as it is unsafe to say such a thing in our crazy politically correct world.
Rex does not know all the wise people of the world, and many wise people like Trump and are saying it proudly.