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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe hideous truth about Trump: Why the “Trump Surge” is here to stay — even if his campaign isn't
The hideous truth about Donald Trump: Why the Trump Surge is here to stay even if his campaign isntThe forces animating the Donald's soaring popularity are omnipresent: The deep-seated anxieties of white America
BRITTNEY COOPER
Donald Trumps formidable lead among Republican contenders for the presidency suggests that good political common sense is officially in short supply. My statement does not lack for hyperbole, but it is entirely commensurate with the alarming cultural farce that is a Trump campaign for president. Nothing makes clearer the kind of social hysteria and lack of reason driving politics on the right these days than widespread support for Donald Trump, a candidate who up until now has provided endless entertainment of the slightly racist uncle who vocalizes outmoded views at the dinner table variety. Such characters usually exasperate us and they may even manage to make us laugh, but no one takes such figures seriously.
However, if the Republican primary were today, Donald Trump would most likely emerge the winner. Polls suggest that people appreciate Trumps form of truth telling, plus the fact that he isnt a Washington insider. However, let me be less generous and less polite in my own assessment of the man:
Donald Trump makes clear that he primarily cares about capitalism, about wealth, and about power. While I view his particular performance of right-wing politics and white masculinity as buffoonish, he seems to offer comfort to those on the right who are deeply invested in returning the countrys leadership to someone who looks and thinks like them. Whats interesting, then, is that Trumps billionaire status likely indicates that he has little in common with the everyday citizen. But his brash and unapologetic political incorrectness bespeaks comfort, a seeming return to normalcy for those Americans who believe that progress and change are happening too fast.
While Democratic candidates like Hillary Clinton, Martin OMalley and Bernie Sanders have become more explicit about saying Black lives matter, Trump recently argued that we actually need to give power back to the police. Nothing about the rampant culture of overpolicing in this country or the surveillance state in which most urban people of color live would suggest that this is a reasonable position to take. The police have more power than they have ever had, and they continue to use that power to intimidate and abuse ordinary citizens of all backgrounds, including African-Americans, Native Americans and white people.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/08/05/the_hideous_truth_about_donald_trump_why_the_trump_surge_is_here_to_stay_even_if_his_campaign_isnt/
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The hideous truth about Trump: Why the “Trump Surge” is here to stay — even if his campaign isn't (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2015
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Gothmog
(145,374 posts)1. Trump will not be the gop nominee
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. The Fundies went full FoamMouth over national same-sex marriage. This is the Last Stand of the Fundies.
And Trump is no Fundie, that is how blinded they have become by their own madness, they do not know which way to turn, the tides of progress are creeping in on them from all directions.
But, on the bright side, with over a year until anything meaningful happens in the never ending but not actual real "campaign season", plenty of time to once and for take down the idiots and their idiot/opportunistic politician/snake oil salesmen.