In Sunday's New York Daily News, a rather popular Republican strategist named Rick Wilson wrote a column in which he advised Americans to beat He, Trump so badly at the polls this November that another He, Trump never rises from the earth again to threaten the four-decade game of bait-and-switch that Wilson and the rest of them had been running on America. You will see more of this as the campaign grinds on—movement conservative Republicans attempting to separate their party from the inevitable consequence of the way they've all done politics since the Reagan people invited the god-botherers into the tent where the racists invited in by Nixon were already jamming up the bar service.
The tells are deep in the piece, but they're easily found.
Perhaps the most important reason Trump needs to suffer an epic loss is to destroy the aura around Donald himself. Donald Trump and the revolting personality cult he has built around himself are an affront to the Party of Lincoln, to constitutional conservatism and to the fundamental beliefs of the American republic.
Jesus H. Christ on a biscuit, can we stop with the Party of Lincoln crapola?
You forfeited the right to that title the moment that Harry Dent sat down to write a memo. You are now the Party of Calhoun, the party of voter suppression. Hell, I don't know what "constitutional conservatism" even means any more, except to note that it seems to involve radical Tentherism and a desire to roll back the effects of Amendments 13-15.
I want to be clear here. As a principled conservative, I loathe the high likelihood that Hillary Clinton will—barring a bear attack or some other unforeseen externality—win this election. She'll nominate liberal Supreme Court justices.
Horrors, no. Elections have consequences? Who knew?
We'll lose religious liberty.
Balls. Your ability to use modified, Biblically based Jim Crow arguments will be somewhat curtailed.
We'll have our Second Amendment freedoms compromised.
Not "compromised," limited, as is every right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, one way or the other.
Chuck Schumer's immigration bill is going to be so bad it will make many of us beg for the Gang of Eight.
The Gang of Eight was a Republican bill, for pity's sake. It was going to be the golden ticket of the post-2012 autopsy, and it was going to help Marco Rubio become president. Instead, the reaction to it unleashed the party's barely concealed Id, an Id that years of "principled conservatism" tenderly had nurtured. It destroyed Rubio's political career, and it gave He, Trump's campaign its first big boost. It's a little late now to claim that he's someone else's monster.
Anyway, in Detroit today, as El Caudillo de Mar-A-Lago attempted to give another big-boy policy speech, He was interrupted nine times by protesters, whom he ignored. (What are the odds that "Ignore Protesters" were written in all caps on the teleprompters? His handlers are lucky he didn't read it.) Once again, he appeared bored, and somewhat afraid that the teleprompters would eat him.
What was remarkable, though, is that his speech sold down the river all the faux-populism that his campaign had been peddling for the past 16 months. But first, a sampling of arrant BS:
This is a city controlled by Democratic politicians at every level, and unless we change policies, we will not change results.
This will come as some surprise to Gov.Rick Snyder, who put Detroit under his pet emergency manager law for a year so that the manager could put the city into bankruptcy.
Recently, at a campaign event, Hillary Clinton short-circuited again—to use a now famous term—when she accidentally told the truth and said she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class.
This claim is based on a cheaply made ratfcking video produced by his own campaign in which HRC's remarks are clipped so that she seems to be saying that we "are" going to raise taxes on the middle class, when the video taken at the time clearly has her saying that we "aren't" going to do so. This is as good an example of the dangers of sampling your own product as I can remember.
We've seen it from President Obama, when he gives $150 billion to Iran, the number one terror state, and even gives them $400 million in money-laundered cash as a ransom payment.
It wasn't ransom and it wasn't laundered.
Now, as to the policy part of the speech, you can forget about that weird provision in the Republican platform about bringing back the Glass-Steagall Act. Must've been a typo.
Upon taking office, I will issue a temporary moratorium on new agency regulations. My running mate, Mike Pence, signed a similar order when he became governor of Indiana. This will give our American companies the certainty they need to reinvest in our community, get cash off of the sidelines, start hiring for new jobs, and expanding businesses.
And then, of course, there's the reform by which young Barron Trump's great-grandchildren never will have to work a day in their lives.
Finally, no family will have to pay the death tax. American workers have paid taxes their whole lives, and they should not be taxed again at death—it's just plain wrong. We will repeal it.
Populism, baby!
Yeah, there was some stuff in there about doing away with the carried-interest loophole, a fine notion that we also would get if we elected just about anyone else running for president. But the real story of the speech was twofold—first, if He, Trump has pivoted at all, it's toward conventional Reaganomics of the kind that, every eight years or so, sends the economy into the dumpster and the deficit off towards Neptune.
And second, can someone please tell the candidate when the election is?
In the days ahead, we will provide more details on this plan and how it will help you and your family.
In the days ahead? There are only about 90 of them left. Take your time, dude.
Via Esquire.com
The tells are deep in the piece, but they're easily found.
Perhaps the most important reason Trump needs to suffer an epic loss is to destroy the aura around Donald himself. Donald Trump and the revolting personality cult he has built around himself are an affront to the Party of Lincoln, to constitutional conservatism and to the fundamental beliefs of the American republic.
Jesus H. Christ on a biscuit, can we stop with the Party of Lincoln crapola?
You forfeited the right to that title the moment that Harry Dent sat down to write a memo. You are now the Party of Calhoun, the party of voter suppression. Hell, I don't know what "constitutional conservatism" even means any more, except to note that it seems to involve radical Tentherism and a desire to roll back the effects of Amendments 13-15.
I want to be clear here. As a principled conservative, I loathe the high likelihood that Hillary Clinton will—barring a bear attack or some other unforeseen externality—win this election. She'll nominate liberal Supreme Court justices.
Horrors, no. Elections have consequences? Who knew?
We'll lose religious liberty.
Balls. Your ability to use modified, Biblically based Jim Crow arguments will be somewhat curtailed.
We'll have our Second Amendment freedoms compromised.
Not "compromised," limited, as is every right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, one way or the other.
Chuck Schumer's immigration bill is going to be so bad it will make many of us beg for the Gang of Eight.
The Gang of Eight was a Republican bill, for pity's sake. It was going to be the golden ticket of the post-2012 autopsy, and it was going to help Marco Rubio become president. Instead, the reaction to it unleashed the party's barely concealed Id, an Id that years of "principled conservatism" tenderly had nurtured. It destroyed Rubio's political career, and it gave He, Trump's campaign its first big boost. It's a little late now to claim that he's someone else's monster.
Anyway, in Detroit today, as El Caudillo de Mar-A-Lago attempted to give another big-boy policy speech, He was interrupted nine times by protesters, whom he ignored. (What are the odds that "Ignore Protesters" were written in all caps on the teleprompters? His handlers are lucky he didn't read it.) Once again, he appeared bored, and somewhat afraid that the teleprompters would eat him.
What was remarkable, though, is that his speech sold down the river all the faux-populism that his campaign had been peddling for the past 16 months. But first, a sampling of arrant BS:
This is a city controlled by Democratic politicians at every level, and unless we change policies, we will not change results.
This will come as some surprise to Gov.Rick Snyder, who put Detroit under his pet emergency manager law for a year so that the manager could put the city into bankruptcy.
Recently, at a campaign event, Hillary Clinton short-circuited again—to use a now famous term—when she accidentally told the truth and said she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class.
This claim is based on a cheaply made ratfcking video produced by his own campaign in which HRC's remarks are clipped so that she seems to be saying that we "are" going to raise taxes on the middle class, when the video taken at the time clearly has her saying that we "aren't" going to do so. This is as good an example of the dangers of sampling your own product as I can remember.
We've seen it from President Obama, when he gives $150 billion to Iran, the number one terror state, and even gives them $400 million in money-laundered cash as a ransom payment.
It wasn't ransom and it wasn't laundered.
Now, as to the policy part of the speech, you can forget about that weird provision in the Republican platform about bringing back the Glass-Steagall Act. Must've been a typo.
Upon taking office, I will issue a temporary moratorium on new agency regulations. My running mate, Mike Pence, signed a similar order when he became governor of Indiana. This will give our American companies the certainty they need to reinvest in our community, get cash off of the sidelines, start hiring for new jobs, and expanding businesses.
And then, of course, there's the reform by which young Barron Trump's great-grandchildren never will have to work a day in their lives.
Finally, no family will have to pay the death tax. American workers have paid taxes their whole lives, and they should not be taxed again at death—it's just plain wrong. We will repeal it.
Populism, baby!
Yeah, there was some stuff in there about doing away with the carried-interest loophole, a fine notion that we also would get if we elected just about anyone else running for president. But the real story of the speech was twofold—first, if He, Trump has pivoted at all, it's toward conventional Reaganomics of the kind that, every eight years or so, sends the economy into the dumpster and the deficit off towards Neptune.
And second, can someone please tell the candidate when the election is?
In the days ahead, we will provide more details on this plan and how it will help you and your family.
In the days ahead? There are only about 90 of them left. Take your time, dude.
Via Esquire.com
