The story of the Trump candidacy has very little to do with Donald Trump.

[kpete]

......the GOP spent a 40 years and billions of dollars carefully breeding an army of reliably angry, paranoid, racists chumps. And they have been so successful at completely re-engineering the Right's ideological digestive system that they can no longer process any information which does not come to them in the form of Fox-approved Benghaaaazi goo.

In other words, in order to win elections and rake in vast fortunes, the Conservative brain caste has painstakingly created the perfect feeding-ground for con men and demagogues like Trump, the louder and more bombastic the better. And from David Brooks and the Wall Street Journal and "Meet the Press", to Ann Coulter and the Washington Free Beacon and the Breitbart Collective, in one way or another, virtually everyone in the media makes bank by flattering Conservative meatheads and pandering to their delusions.

They are the GOP's premium leads, but however abundant and renewable a resource the Conservative meatheads may be, come Presidential election time, there is never enough room at the trough for every rapacious Republican hog. This is why every few years we have these Little Red State Fundy moments; that delicate time when the knives come out and the various species of Conservative con men start cutting each other's balls over who gets to pluck the wingnut pigeons...

...while trying desperately not to call attention to the fact that their entire political system depends on pandering to the army of reliably angry, paranoid, racists chumps which the GOP has worked so long and hard to cultivate.


MORE:
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-breaking-of-records.html

[GeeNeeUs]

1. The rancid rise of the Republican Goonocracy

[pipoman]

2. I disagree entirely

Trump is the result of pissed off voters. In years gone by the media often has successfully labeled nonestablishment candidates as crazy nutbags...which Trump probably is....it isn't working well with Trump because he has been a public, famous personality for a few decades.

The same can be said for Sanders. He is the result of pissed off voters too.

Voters on both sides are pissed about many of the same things...

Usually the non establishment types are easy for the media to impune because of their relative unknown status. This primary season has been very different, and the establishment is in a bit of a panic.

Look for sky-is-falling messages from both parties and from the status quo protectors as the primary draws closer.

[Orsino]

3. I think Donald Trump has very little to do with his own alleged candidacy.

Sure, he's enjoying the attention, but is he at all invested in the idea of being president? Is he paying more than a token few staff who wouldn't be working for him anyway? Is there an actual campaign?

I don't think so, and am confident that he will walk away when actual work is required of him. No, he's not going to move to DC.