Everyone "Caught completely flatfooted by Trump...except the Dirty Hippies"

[kpete]

KRUGMAN: So why is Trump regarded as ludicrous, while Bush and Walker are serious? Again, on the substance they’re all ludicrous; but pundits are taken in by the sober-sounding personal style of the runners-up, while voters apparently are not.

Just to be clear, I’m not denying that Trump is a clown, an absurd figure. But given his party’s field, that’s not a distinctive judgment.

Just about the entire political commentariat has been caught completely flatfooted by Donald Trump’s durable front-runner status; he was supposed to collapse after being nasty to St. John McCain, but nothing of the sort happened...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?_r=0

One correction, which Good Doctor K already knows full well: Just about the entire political commentariat has been caught completely flatfooted by Donald Trump’s durable front-runner status...except the Dirty Hippies.

Once again the only people who have been completely unsurprised by the most recent, yawping, orangutan-coiffed manifestation of the plain and terrible truth that the GOP is a cesspit of bigots, lunatics and demagogues (because the leaders of the party rigged it that way) are the same people our elite political commentariat will not let within a mile of a Serious Media microphone, camera or keyboard.

Thank you Driftglass:
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/08/except-dirty-hippies.html

[eallen]

1. Wait! I bathe...

I am not dirty, damn it.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Beware the tRump

We must remember the surprise nominations and elections of both Ronnie Raygun, Iran Contra, and Shrub the lessor.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Krugman is repeating, without the fear of reprisal that keeps others silent, what has been said at DU for 15 years...the mass media is mass propaganda.

[zeemike]

4. I have a somewhat different take on it.

I think even the bigots on the right are tired of the status quo and want change. And they are willing to press the destruct button to get it.

There are a sizable number on the left and right that are angry and it shows up in politics.

[Rex]

5. This is why Hippie Punching is such a fad, history has a liberal slant.

And it drives some crazy with rage! Too bad. So sad.

[pinboy3niner]

6. And except for the vets who actually served when their number came up

There's not much respect for chickenhawks there.

[hibbing]

7. I'm not surprised at all

It is the open racism he promulgates that is a big attraction to the members of the party. Maybe David Duke should consider running again.

Peace

[greymattermom]

8. Trump is the anti Koch candidate

No need to grovel for Koch money, he has his own. He's seen as strong because of that. All the others are weak puppets. Folks on both sides are tired of talking points delivered via ear pieces.

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. Not so sure flatfooted is how I would describe the

entire political commentariat..Good theater is their mantra..drama is their beat..like watching an auto race..waiting for the crash...

But Dirty Hippies???...now I WILL take offense (mildly speaking of course, I get it) ....we were just fine, then came Vietnam.....

those who didn't serve...that is the cesspool we are dealing with now....

[L0oniX]

10. Don't laugh. They thought Hitler was a joke too until he came to power.

[olddots]

11. spot on

we're not laughing .