I rarely agree with you about anything, but I think you’re at least partially right here. That is, it’s ridiculous for liberals to downplay Trump’s undeniable genius at, umm, being Trump, which is a combination of making money and keeping himself in the public eye. He didn’t end up where he is by accident.
That said, I don’t see any particular reason to think that that precise skill set is particularly relevant for the job of US president. Or, for that matter, the job of building up and running a single business that actually does things. Is there a factory somewhere that exists and employs people solely because of the hard work of Donald Trump? (As opposed to, say, a hotel in Vegas that would exist and would still employ people, but would just be named something else, if not for the hard work of Donald Trump?)
I don’t think he will get the nomination but if he does, he will backtrack on a lot of the stuff that you find repulsive and run as “NOT Hillary”
Religion: Trump claims to be religious but his church says he is not an active member (IOW, he mostly shows up for weddings (mostly his) and funerals).
Abortion: His views on abortion are not credible. There is no way he is as pro-life as he claims. Someone who walked the road to Damascus would be a lot more religious than him and there are precious few other ways to flip on that issue so quickly other than religious conversion.
Racism: The only real evidence (other than the shit he has been saying since he started running for president) is a lawsuit when he was 5 years out of college against the company that his father ran for decades and Trump had just taken over. And it was after all just a lawsuit, not a judgment.
I don’t support him and I think that his lack of political experience would make him a horrible head of state. I don’t think anyone would describe him as diplomatic.
Not fucking his business partners? Assuming you’re talking about Trump’s casino bankruptcies, what would you have him do? Keep the doors open until they shut off the lights and the sheriff comes to padlock the doors? And even if so, how’s that going to repay the businesses’ investors and debt holders?
It makes no sense not to take a business into bankruptcy if it’s failing and has debts it has no hope of paying. I have no idea where all this stuff about fucking his partners comes from. Investors know they’re taking a risk. And generally the greater the risk the greater the potential return. Basically they’re gambling profit vs. loss. In the case of Trump’s casinos they profited for quite a while during the time his casinos were successful. Then the New Jersey casino business tanked (for everyone in it, not just Trump) and they lost money. Sucks to be them but they knew what they were getting into. Trump would have been perfectly happy to continue running those casinos at a handsome profit indefinitely had the bottom not dropped out of New Jersey’s casino business. But it would have made no sense whatever to keep them going and throwing good money after bad until they come to lock the doors.
Trump’s companies employ tens of thousands of people who are employed as a direct result of the opportunities he’s recognized and been smart enough and skilled enough to capitalize on.
His skill set is relevant to running the country because he understands money, which is important in managing an economy; because he has proven skills at negotiation, which would be important when dealing with congressmen and foreign leaders; at riding herd over and getting complex and difficult things accomplished in a timely and successful manner; and because of his history in hiring excellent people and getting the most out of them, meaning he’d likely have a very efficient and effective Cabinet and White House administrative staff. Just because Trump’s a businessman it doesn’t automatically follow that he would try to run the country as a business, or that he lacks the necessary skills to run the country as a country and not as a business.
You referenced social nationalism. If we just rearrange that phrase a little we get national socialist. I just followed the pattern for shortening the philosophical term.
Tell that to Paul Simon. Apparently it would have saved him four days hitchhiking from Saginaw if he’d have known he needn’t bother looking for America.
Ah, but those were all Chapter 11 bankruptcies; reorganizations. So if the US was about to default on the debt who has better experience than Trump to get top dollar selling off Federal assets to the highest bidder?
Say what you will about Trump, he is the only republican who has said he would protect medicare, medicaid & social security. He also has criticized the lobbyist system of corruption we have.
He also came out in favorof using the power of the government to negotiate prescription drug prices (something the republicans have opposed and something the democrats only give lip service to).
Of all the republicans, he is least bad. The reason Trump and Sanders are doing so well is because they speak out against the corrupt oligarchy that runs the country at the expense of the voters. So hopefully it’ll be Trump vs. Sanders in 2016, with president Sanders sworn in next year.
No he can’t. His net worth now is less than if he’d just put his inheritance into an index fund tracking the stock market and done nothing. He has a track record of putting his name on things and walking away when they fail, leaving others to take the losses.
Yeah know, foreign dignitaries should not weigh in on electoral candidates, it never works to their advantage. No nation likes being told what to do by foreigners, least of all Americans. And Trump is not wrong for once, I don’t see a Syrian Refugee camp in Vatican City.
I feel let down The Donald didn’t call El Papa a loser.
