I never thought that the 2016 election would be so damn fascinating to observe….no matter the party it is interesting to see how the American voting public is reacting to this candidate or that…..
Since one man in the race has won almost everything….the GOP “establishment”is pulling NO punches……they must find a way to stop the man from the prize, the nomination……
They are resorting to get a failed presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, to do an info-mercial to dissuade voters from his side……
Now an editor for Breitbart, Ben Shapirio, has issued 3 reason that Trump is NO conservative……
First, the idolatry of a certain segment of his following. Trump has drawn some of the worst elements of American life to his campaign. To be sure, most of his supporters are decent Americans who find his approach to politics a revelation: He’s an outsider, someone who will “get things done.” Some of his followers identify with his hard-line position on illegal immigration and his dislike of free trade, even though Trump could flip those positions in a heartbeat if he felt the political necessity to do so.
Which leads to the second reason Trump should concern conservatives: his appeal to nasty causes. Trump desperately wants popularity. He gauges his success by the size of his crowds, his success in the polls, and the compliments he receives in the press. He’ll talk up Russian dictator thug Vladimir Putin so long as Putin calls him “brilliant.” And he’ll go easy on former KKK leader David Duke if Duke endorses him. Trump’s lack of moral principle makes him an easy mark for some of the worst people on the planet. Combine the fact that he is drawn to those who would manipulate him with the fact that he has a worshipful crowd following him, and it’s not difficult to see how the Trump movement ends in tragedy.
Finally, conservatives should oppose Trump full-throatedly because he’s perverting conservatism. Even as he cultivates idolatry and massages white supremacists and global tyrants, Trump proclaims that he’s a conservative. Many of us who have spent a lifetime fighting against the false notion that conservatism is a toxic brew of secret racism and fascism; Trump’s rise provides easy fodder for the opposition. And his followers refuse to acknowledge that Trump has little to do with conservatism. Instead, they allow him to use the mantle of Lincoln and Reagan and the founders to shield his own egocentric rise from criticism.
But wait I thought the Breitbart group was a cheer leader for Trump….what’s up with this?
I find it interesting that the GOP would try to sabotage the candidate that about 30% of their party supports….this is a story to watch, I believe…..
The Republicans have long since shattered into five separate and opposing factions. There is no longer any such animal as “Party Unity” and the “Party Elites” have the whole shebang to themselves now as their former faithful clueless horde awakens from their indifferent slumber and start demanding their rightful share of the American Pie. I expect to see “The New Republican” party emerge from the ashes fairly soon.
I think you may be right….but it will be after the election
International views in cartoons! Not one of them in favour of Trump!
http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2016/03/foreign-cartoonists-trump-000621?slide=0
I still cannot understand that Americans (not all of them ofcourse) are so in favour for him!
Some of us Americans are having the same thought….chuq