Treat yourself and read: "Donald Trump's Lunacy Reveals Core Truth About the Republicans"

[Mira]

He is the Republican id -- finally entirely unleashed from all restraint and reality.
April 29, 2011

Independent UK / By Johann Hari


so I changed out the photo - sue me (this comment by OP)

Since the election of Barack Obama, the Republican Party has proved that one of its central intellectual arguments was right all along. It has long claimed that evolution is a myth believed in only by whiny liberals – and it turns out it was on to something. Every six months, the party venerates a new hero, and each time it is somebody further back on the evolutionary scale.

Sarah Palin told cheering rallies that her message to the world was: "We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way!" – but that wasn't enough.

So the party found Michele Bachmann, who said darkly it was an "interesting coincidence" that swine flu only breaks out under Democratic presidents, claims the message of The Lion King is "I'm better at what I do because I'm gay", and argues "there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."

That wasn't enough. I half-expected the next contender to be a lung-fish draped in the Stars and Stripes. But it wasn't anything so sophisticated.

Enter stage (far) right Donald Trump, the bewigged billionaire who has filled America with phallic symbols and plastered his name across more surfaces than the average Central Asian dictator. CNN's polling suggests he is the most popular candidate among Republican voters. It's not hard to see why. Trump is every trend in Republican politics over the past 35 years taken to its logical conclusion. He is the Republican id, finally entirely unleashed from all restraint and all reality.



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http://www.alternet.org/story/150793/donald_trump%27s_lunacy_reveals_core_truth_about_the_republicans?akid=6906.254620.xtOXmK&rd=1&t=8

[SpiralHawk]

1. Who is Don Gallt (R) ?

And why do he & his RepubliBagging Cronies hate integrity?

[opihimoimoi]

2. He is a psycho blowhard....empty of brains...full of blustering BS

[ThatPoetGuy]

3. "every trend in Republican politics over the past 35 years taken to its logical conclusion." Nope.

Surprisingly, Trump isn't a Bible-thumper. It's been fascinating to see one kind of true-believer -- the bornagain -- give way to another -- the birther.

[zbdent]

4. there isn't one study which shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas?

Okay ... I'll do a study ... I need a test subject ... let's say "Michelle Bachmann" ...

Let's put her into an enclosed, airtight room ... and start increasing the carbon dioxide levels. When her vitals cease, then we'll ask her if it's a "harmful gas" ...

[Mira]

5. I was thinking along those lines, but did not have the guts to say it n/t

[WinkyDink]

6. Americans like The Donald. It's why he still has his TV show(s).

[zbdent]

10. Americans "like The Donald" ...

kinda in the same way that they used to love watching the "faces of death" videos ...

[PufPuf23]

7. Looks like Trump has one of those Trojan thingies advertised on TV

in his pants.

[Motown_Johnny]

8. So instead of "Forbidden Planet" we now have "Forbidden Candidate"?

He is the Republican id -- finally entirely unleashed from all restraint and reality.

[Canuckistanian]

9. "plastered his name across more surfaces than the average Central Asian dictator"

Ain't that the truth