I wanted to sleep on this thought and try and envision what people would think about "bully" Trump.
What do the parents of a bully think about their kid? Are they embarrassed or ashamed? Would they take the kid to task for those actions? Or, maybe... just maybe, they feel some sort of secret pride? The American public, in a serious way, are the parents of this kind of kid. They allowed a system to exist where his sort of behavior gets rewarded. And despite the bankruptcies of the past, he has gotten chance after chance to do it again, and eventually succeeded. Trump is the collective spawn of the "USA! USA!" mentality. And he knows he should be rewarded for what he's doing, because the system was set up specifically so he would be.
Trump is applying every trick in his arsenal, and I don't even think he's halfway done with tricks, when it comes to this campaign. He really is the ultimate politician, despite never having been a politician. All of the stuff he learned through his business deals and experience around the show business world he would dabble in? That's all available material for him to use as defense against opponents or as weaponry to attack people who want to be critical of him.
This is somewhat Orwellian, but it's Animal Farm that's the template this time. Call him Napoleon Trump.
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Date: 2015-08-18 03:14 pm (UTC)What do the parents of a bully think about their kid? Are they embarrassed or ashamed? Would they take the kid to task for those actions? Or, maybe... just maybe, they feel some sort of secret pride? The American public, in a serious way, are the parents of this kind of kid. They allowed a system to exist where his sort of behavior gets rewarded. And despite the bankruptcies of the past, he has gotten chance after chance to do it again, and eventually succeeded. Trump is the collective spawn of the "USA! USA!" mentality. And he knows he should be rewarded for what he's doing, because the system was set up specifically so he would be.
Trump is applying every trick in his arsenal, and I don't even think he's halfway done with tricks, when it comes to this campaign. He really is the ultimate politician, despite never having been a politician. All of the stuff he learned through his business deals and experience around the show business world he would dabble in? That's all available material for him to use as defense against opponents or as weaponry to attack people who want to be critical of him.
This is somewhat Orwellian, but it's Animal Farm that's the template this time. Call him Napoleon Trump.