Ricky Jones -- Why I love Donald Drumpf

[KamaAina]

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2016/03/09/ricky-jones-why-love-donald-trump/81537604/

I am watching with great amusement and satisfaction as political pundits and GOP stalwarts struggle with the reality that is Donald Trump. Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii are among his latest conquests. He is now poised to march through Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.

I, for one, am not surprised by Trump’s success. While others were still mired in doubt, I wrote last August that his candidacy should be taken seriously because he “is riding the same wave of willful ignorance and lowered expectations that elected George W. Bush twice and cast the 'well-read' Sarah Palin as a viable vice-presidential candidate.”...

I love Trump, but not for the same reasons David Duke pulls him to his bosom. I love Trump because with every win he exposes the GOP and America for what they are. Trump doesn’t vote for himself – Americans do. Republicans and the country both need to deal with that truth.

His ascendency has created a psychotic alternate universe where the GOP has plummeted to unexplored levels of mendacity or is so delusional that it should be dissolved. It is incredible that the party affixes racism or racial insensitivity to Trump when those ills have been at the core of its ideology. The party that has housed everyone from post-1948 Strom Thurmond to Jeff Sessions is on shaky ground when it attempts to pave a high road on race. It is, in fact, the place where racists who haven’t abandoned traditional politics altogether reside.

[dchill]

1. "...psychotic alternate universe..."

The GOP has been there since ... day one. They get the candidate they deserve.

[JohnnyLib2]

2. K & R

Well worth a read. Thanks for posting.

[malaise]

3. This should have 500 recs

K & R

[sendero]

4. Excellent article.....

.... nails it. I think there are other dynamics at play also (basically an anti-establishment vote) but what this gentleman has to say is clearly true.

[AxionExcel]

5. "He is the GOP’s id made manifest without a superego to temper it."

"He is their Frankenstein’s monster running wild..."