Party dedication comes first. America comes somewhere down the list, and rational thinking isn’t even on the same shelf, much less in the same book, chapter, or verse.
It’d be funny as hell if it weren’t so serious. Republicans wanted a maverick! They wanted someone to go rogue! That was as recently as 2008 with Madame Palin saying those things.
Now it’s almost literally a B-monster movie from the 1950s. They created a creature they thought they could control! But now it’s loose!
(I know that’s not an original analogy, but damn, it fits. Republicans wanted an “outsider,” someone who would “shake up Washington”. I bet they never knew how badly it would backfire on them. Let’s just hope it doesn’t backfire on the entire country. And the world.)
Regarding Trump’s “Mexican heritage” objection: What about Trump’s German heritage? Should he be ineligible for the Presidency because he may act preferentially toward Germany, or actually have Third Reich connections? Hmmm, Herr Drumpf?
I’m wondering how many geeks (like myself, also a SWM) are part of Trump’s base. This guy seems to think Trump appeals to non-elite whites. Kevin Drum thinks it’s not the economy (stupid)[sup]1[/sup].
Anyway I’m wondering whether most SWM geeks find Trump’s bluster as alienating as I do.
[sup]1[/sup]“It’s the economy stupid”, was the unofficial slogan of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. If you agree the underlying issue is cultural, then Part II of the above photo essay might be of interest.
It seems pretty obvious to me that Trump appeals to white men who have “worked hard” to get where they and their families are, and feel they’ve been cheated of more success (even when pretty successful by most measures) not because of generalities like economic and education imbalance, but because the US has “handed” so much to women, minorities and now all those poor gender-confused types. They want the world they were promised in 1965, when being a white male with some education meant you’d get to run the world, make lots of money and help keep all those others down where they belonged. Ditto for the notion that other countries should be smacked for having the temerity to challenge the US’s leadership, economic supremacy, and general global self-interest.
Make America Great Again (for disillusioned white guys).
I’m not sure that’s true. To believe that Trumpies are all blue-collar workers or semi-failures is to misunderstand the situation, I think. Many are reasonably educated, “some college” or better, and have or have had decent jobs. But this group is struggling like all the others when their fathers, in the same situation, were comfortably off. So it must be the fault of spreading largesse on all these wimmen and furriners.
For the record, I am a professional telemarketer, and I would be SO TOTALLY FIRED if I stooped to those tactics. Respectable companies don’t act like that.
Trump appears to be digging himself in deeper. Someone on MSNBC wondered what his lawyers are thinking about now. Of course Trump probably thinks he knows the law better because he is very smart and spent a few hours in a law office.
It turns out that when the judge was a prosecutor he was instrumental in working against Mexican drug cartels, so instrumental that his life was at risk and he was put under protection.
So, is Trump in cahoots with Mexican drug lords? A wall would probably increase their profits by making it harder for the littler smuggler, after all. The cartels can afford to dig tunnels.
Just asking questions.
Time to ask more about the connections Trump had (or still has?) with organized crime:
As I pointed months ago, even an evangelical conservative knows what Trump (and the Republicans just got in bed with him) is headed for in this election: