National Review: "Death of a F***ing Salesman: Donald Trump can't close the deal. "
Found via a tweet from the NYT's Glenn Thrush:
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From that stunning NR article by Kevin Williamson -- which I hope you'll all read in its entirety:
What’s notable about the advice offered to young men aspiring to be “alpha males” is that it is consistent with the classic salesmanship advice offered by the real-world versions of Blake in a hundred thousand business-inspiration books (Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World is the classic of the genre) and self-help tomes, summarized in an old Alcoholics Anonymous slogan: “Fake it ’til you make it.” For the pick-up artists, the idea is that simply acting in social situations as though one were confident, successful, and naturally masterful is a pretty good substitute for being those things. Never mind the advice of Cicero (esse quam vider, be rather than seem) or Rush — just go around acting like Blake and people will treat you like Blake.
If that sounds preposterous, remind yourself who the president of the United States of America is.
Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.
He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money. He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity.
He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.” Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact. For all his gold-plated toilets, he is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around.
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It gets to a real truth, drumpf is all fake and fury about nothing just to make himself look tough. Must be tough when he's such a natural whiney crybaby, poor little handed man.
and he could portray a strong, effective leader, even though he was a pathetic wuss himself. Who calls their wife, "mommy"? 
Trump isn't much of an actor, or a human being. Reagan could make many people temporarily suspend their disbelief. Trump could fool weak minded malcontents, and for the most weak minded, still does. For the rest of us though, Trump has become, to paraphrase Hamlet;
Trump's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: He is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
if Dump reads it. Not likely since he doesn't read, but we can always hope! 
are on their knees to admire these same degenerate qualities in Comrade Casino, the ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
I just don't get it. Why do republicans go all submissive to kiss the flabby keester of lameass whiney liar? Kinda bizarre & frankly un-manly, it must be observed.
