Category: Trump

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

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David Brooks has learned “a lesson that I have to change the way I do my job if I’m going to report accurately on this country.”

Well, David, you should get out more. You might also try reading InstaPundit regularly. But mostly, you owe a bigger apology than this.
The Tea Party movement — which you also failed to understand, and thus mostly despised — was a bourgeois, well-mannered effort (remember how Tea Party protests left the Mall cleaner than before they arrived?) to fix America. It was treated with contempt, smeared as racist, and blocked by a bipartisan coalition of business-as-usual elites. So now you have Trump, who’s not so well-mannered, and his followers, who are not so well-mannered, and you don’t like it.

Indeed.

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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
January 22nd, 2016 – Anyone But Him!: Top GOPers Openly Support Donald Trump Over Ted Cruz

March 10th, 2016 – To Stop Trump, GOP Establishment Must Rally to Cruz
Related!

By now it is clear that Marco Rubio’s abrupt turn toward mockery and confrontation of Donald Trump was a catastrophic error that turned his campaign, which not long ago led prediction markets, into a laughingstock. Rubio has even conceded his mistake (“if I had to do it again I wouldn’t”). Sadly for Rubio, now that his negativity has darkened his once-sunny persona, and rendered him useless as a vehicle for anti-Trump Republicans, the very people who egged him on are now kicking him to the curb.

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Victor Davis Hanson swings a wrecking ball;

The children of Republican elites do not sit in classes where a quarter of the students does not speak English. When that specter of diversity looms, parents yank their kids and put them in the prep schools of Silicon Valley that are rapidly reaching New England numbers (or maybe better southern academies that followed integration). Their children are not on buses where an altercation between squabbling eight-year-olds leads to a tattooed parent arriving at your home to challenge you to a fight over “disrespecting” his family name. The establishment Republicans have rarely jogged around their neighborhoods only to be attacked by pit bulls, whose owners have little desire to speak English, much less to cage, vaccinate or license their dogs. They have never been hit by illegal-alien drivers in Palo Alto. In other words, they do not wish to live anywhere near those who, as a result of an act of love, are desperately poor, here under illegal auspices, and assume California works and should work on the premises of Oaxaca.

Also excellent: Sympathy for the Donaldites

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Watch, and learn.

Donald Trump has been blowing up the traditional GOP certainties left and right, and this week he overturned another one. In what seemed like an embarrassing rebuke, on February 1, Adele told the Republican front-runner that he didn’t have her permission to use her songs at his massive campaign events. Adele might just be the world’s most popular singer at the moment, and any normal candidate would have folded his tent, chastened. Not Trump.

Via

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An excellent piece by Tucker Carlson;

All of which explains why almost nobody in Washington caught the significance of Trump’s finest moment in the first debate. One of the moderators asked, in effect: if you’re so opposed to Hillary Clinton, why did she come to your last wedding? It seemed like a revealing, even devastating question.
Trump’s response, delivered without pause or embarrassment: Because I paid her to be there. As if she was the wedding singer, or in charge of the catering.
Even then, I’ll confess, I didn’t get it. (Why would you pay someone to come to your wedding?) But the audience did.

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Yup.
This is what I was looking for when I checked here;

What is the one best thing he can do to separate himself from the Republican machine and show that he can be a deal-maker for everyone? Answer: Punch FOX News in the mouth. Right in front of you.
Democrats are watching. Trump is framing himself as an enemy of their enemy. (Democrats hate FOX News.)

That’s what I was thinking. Forget what Republicans are saying. Millions of Democrats just sat up and cheered for Donald Trump.
(I haven’t linked to the Dilbert blog more than once or twice, but I’ve been reading it every day.)
OH. And if I may add: these talking heads asking “is he going to walk out on Putin?” as though it’s a rhetorical question?
YES, you MORONS. That’s what the art of the deal is based on. The ultimate leverage is knowing that your opponent knows that you can walk away from the table and give him nothing.
If you can’t fold your cards, if you’re not prepared to walk away, you’re not a deal maker.
You’re a hostage.
You know what just happened?
Trump just fired the air traffic controllers of the Republican party.

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