3/3/16
There is much to write about the Trump phenomenon, the Trump
movement, or whatever you want to call it, and I have gone so far as to outline
a lengthier and more cerebral post on this topic. Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to sit
down and complete the tome (I can hear the sighs of relief from some quarters,
to be sure.), but it’s coming.
For now, though, failed candidate Mitt Romney’s latest bout
of self-serving disingenuousness has prompted two comments from yours truly.
First, while Mr. Romney hasn’t quite sealed the
nomination for Mr. Trump, he surely has given Mr. Trump’s efforts a not all
that needed shot of adrenaline. Mr. Romney did so by exposing how completely out
of touch he and his ilk are. Mr. Trump,
for all his, er, imperfections, has consistently symbolized the justifiable
anger of the great silent majority, the middle class that, given the treatment
it gets from the elites on the left and the nominal right, now probably wishes
it could be called the “forgotten” middle class; being forgotten is better than
being patronized or overtly disdained.
Mr. Romney is certain he knows what is good for the middle class, which only
shows how little he knows about the average guy he and his compatriots treat as
some sort of sociological curiosity.
Second, did Mr. Romney somehow think it was smart to
attack Mr. Trump for his business failures?
How many companies did Mr. Romney’s Bain & Company take into Chapter
11? Is this a topic of discussion for a
guy who made his living leveraging the heck out of businesses and hoping for
the best while taking little risk? Trump
failed several times; Bain and Company, using the same definition, failed on
more occasions. That’s okay; as someone
once said, capitalism without failure is like Christianity without hell. However, since Mr. Romney chose to make Mr.
Trump’s business failures a focal point of his feigned outrage, I’m surprised
Mr. Trump didn’t bring up Mr. Romney’s business record in his counter-speech to
Mr. Romney’s pathetic attempt at relevance.
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