5/4/16
That Donald Trump
is now the presumptive nominee of the Grand
Old Party comes as a surprise to the punditry class, the group that makes
so much money opining on things about which it knows so little. But that Mr. Trump is now, barring something
really bizarre even by standards of this bizarre election season, the
standard-bearer of the Republican Party,
did not surprise yours truly, and his faithful readers, one whit. Unlike those who amass fortunes doing so
ham-handedly what I do so skillfully for free, and who will doubtless try to
tell you that they saw this coming all along, I present proof that I was on to “this
Trump thing” a long time ago.
My most telling pieces on the Trump phenomenon were
and
Also notable were
IF TRUMP WINS TONIGHT IN IOWA…, 2/1/16
Hmm…yours truly even called the Iowa loss. Amazing.
Why am I not at all surprised that Mr. Trump is the GOP
nominee? It’s quite simple. The country is falling apart. The economy is lethargic at best. Real wages are stuck in neutral, but those
with high incomes (Note that I didn’t say “the rich;” quite different
concepts.) earn still higher incomes and insist on rubbing it in the noses of
those who are just barely making it by engaging in excesses that would make the
suzerains of old blush. We have spent ourselves into oblivion and now are
facing debts that will be nearly, if not actually, impossible to service if
interest rates ever get back to anything approximating a “normal” level. Our schools are in disarray. Our students aren’t learning the things that
need to be learned if we are to become a great nation again. Families are falling apart, much to the
approval of the ruling classes. Crime,
while not at ‘70s levels, is still endemic and more real due to the immediacy
of modern media. The old mores that
made this country great are laughed at and ridiculed. We are spilling the blood of our young
people, and spending billions we don’t have, fighting wars in places in which
we have no business. The middle class is constantly being told to pony up for
solutions that don’t work, that indeed exacerbate the problems they are
supposedly designed to address, but that most assuredly increase the incomes of
the feckless, self-assured, and self-centered political class.
Yet the political establishment tells us that if we just
continue on the same “mainstream” path, things will get better. Then these professional clingers to the
public mammary gland add insult to injury by righteously opining that “America’s
best years are ahead of us.” The typical
middle class voter sees this condescending drivel as the utter nonsense that it
is and is so fed up with the obtuseness of the mainstream that s/he is willing
to embrace a champion as imperfect as Trump, a man who embodies more than a few
of the aforementioned problems that are eating away at American society, as a
backlash against the downright silliness and self-obsession that permeates the
political class. After all, the voters
figure, how could Mr. Trump possibly be worse than the pack of poltroons and
popinjays that has run this country into the ditch?
That the voters should react in such a manner is surprising
only to the media and political classes, which stand agape that the sociological
curiosities they consider the voters to be have not acted as the punditry’s Ivy
League educations and inbred circle of friends and associates say they should. Why does anybody listen to these people whose
most salient attribute is an amazing ability to so misunderstand the areas in
which they purport to be experts?
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