Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Will the GOP let Trump lead them down the rabbit hole?

Cartoon by Daryl Cagle
For any other Republican candidate for president, it would have been an opportunity to distance himself from the fruitcake fringe and prove his seriousness. Not for Donald Trump.
At a Rochester, N.H., rally, saying, "OK, this man. I like this guy," Trump called on his first questioner, who said, "We have a problem in this country. It's called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American."
The man then concluded: "But anyway, we have training camps brewing where they want to kill us. That's my question. When can we get rid of it?"
Trump answered, "A lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to be looking into that and plenty of other things."
Does Trump believe President Obama is secretly Muslim? Probably not, in spite of milking such suspicions before Obama's re-election. So for someone so quick to insult so many, he could have said any number of things to distance himself from the questioner, from "You're a jerk" to something humorous, like "Did someone give you the wrong directions to the Rand Paul rally?"
Instead, he said "we need this question" and refused to challenge his assertions. Trump apparently believes, at least at this stage of the race for the Republican nomination, that he needs people like him. Even if it turns off millions of people whom the GOP nominee, whoever that ends up being, will need in November 2016.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair links Trump to the rise of the left in Britain and other places. Writing in the Guardian recently, Blair called hard-left Jeremy Corbyn, who last week became leader of the Labor Party, part of an "Alice in Wonderland world" of "parallel reality" and "a new phenomenon in politics or perhaps the revival of an old one."
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... What's happening? "There is a politics of parallel reality going on," Blair believes, "in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all." ...
Read the full IBD op-ed HERE.

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1 comment:

cimbri said...

Trump is easily the best chance we have to win. Northern blue collar guys aren't going to vote for iCarly and most of the others. That means we're dead at the Mason Dixon line.

This article, quotes the idiot PM Blair, the fool who helped Bush wreck Iraq, and start the cascade of problems, that now results in millions of refugees going to western nations. I am so tired of the people who created the problems having the gall to criticize Trump, the man who was right about Iraq and most other policies then and now.