On the Saturday broadcast of “Justice” on Fox News Channel, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump called in and discussed National Review, who published a so-called anti-Trump manifesto entitled “Against Trump.”
“Well, it’s a failing magazine, you know that. It’s been failing badly, and they’re getting some publicity,” Trump said of National Review.
He later added, “I can only say this — the National Review is a failing publication. It’s not going to be around long. And they’ll get some publicity. A lot of the writers think it’s going to help me more because people are tired of the negativity from these people. All they do is talk, but they don’t have solutions to anything, and so I mean, I’m fine with it. I’m not going to be reading it because I don’t read it very much anyway. But a lot of people don’t read it anymore.”
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He later added, “I can only say this — the National Review is...
As with Trump's favorite verse in "Two Corinthians", this is the first time I've ever heard anyone call it "the National Review". It's like Trump doesn't really know if it's a magazine or one of those newsprint publications like New York Review of Books. I have to wonder if Trump has ever seen a copy of National Review at all.
This seems like a petty item to mention but it is increasingly part of a pattern of Trump spewing things out without appearing to know anything at all about them.
Trump: "Yeah, that Bible is the only book greater than my own epic bestseller. Being such a devout Presbyterian, I especially liked that story about the Two Corinthians and the Three Wise Guys."
It is a little surreal to see this orange tycoon being sold as the Great White Hope.
It is a little surreal to see this orange tycoon being sold as the Great White Hope.
If the Republican Establishment had not been treacherous incompetents for 40 years - if they, instead, had used their many turns at power to actually FIX things - there would be Donald Trump.
Fact is, the Republicans HAD POWER for years and years, and the country fell to pieces on their watch.
People don't like the Left - Americans are naturally conservative - but the Republicans betrayed the people in favor of the rich. It's one the reasons Donald Trump IS so rich - a game, rigged by the Republicans, in favor of the rich.
But the jig is up. The broad bulk of the American people have suffered too much, and the rich have had it too good, and the Republicans get elected to change that, and instead they accelerate it.
Everybody sees it, and everybody knows that Republicans and the Right lies like they breathe. So nobody listens to their yowling lies about Trump. Nobody cares. The Republicans have lost all credibility, and they don't have a future in an America they have lied to too much.
Back in the days of Perot, people weren't ready to throw in for a third party guy. They still had hope that the GOP would get the message. After Clinton, there was the hope that the GOP would get the message. Nope. They continued to screw the nation in favor of the rich.
So now, you have these men of the right who have been used to getting away with treachery for years, trying it AGAIN, throwing crap at Trump. Nobody cares except them. They see their power, and most importantly their money, threatened (and they're right about that - the middle class IS going to tax them, hard, to close the gap and stabilize things), And so they try the usual lies and insinuations and "unqualified" crap that didn't work against Obama either.
But now, nobody cares. The Republicans have destroyed the middle class and working class so badly that the broad back of the American people no longer listens to them, trusts them, believes them. Trump focuses directly on issues that have hurt the middle class: immigration and free trade. The Establishment tries to make it personal about Trump.
The fact that the Republican Establishment hates Trump must mean that Trump is good, because the Republican Establishment are crooks. They must fear him, that he will wreck their power and wealth.
That's a good reason to vote for him.
They managed to turn the Tea Party into their own controlled group, but they cannot control Trump, and when he gets power - which he will - it will be against their enmity.
There is nothing more satisfying than punishing your enemies once you've won, and there is no better way to punish the rich for waging war against you than by taking away their money, which is the basis of their power.
It's always been class warfare. Democrats have been the party of the really poor, and the blacks. Republicans have become the party of the super-rich. Trump is going to take over the Republican Party for the Middle Class, and turn around the cannons of public power to take back the excessive power and wealth the rich have accumulated, and reinvest it in the middle class.
The rich know it, and they hate him for it. But this is a democracy, after all, and they've spent 40 years pissing on the middle class. Now they are going to have to drink the piss themselves.
And it's great! I'm very happy.
America should be governed for the benefit of the middle class and working class. The rich can be allowed to get rich, within reason, but they cannot be allowed to have their wealth control the government again. The Republican Establishment represents the collective power of wealth.
The middle class has to destroy them at the ballot box by electing Trump. And then Trump has to use the power of government, which the rich used to run the table, to take BACK the wealth that the rich corruptly stole through regulation and selective taxation.
Redisrtibute the money from the rich to the middle and working class, and the poverty rate, crime rate, drug rate, depression rate, obesity rate - all of - will go down.
The rich will scream like boiled cats, but where else can they go?
As to the dark threats about emigrating. Go ahead. You're still a US citizen and you pay taxes for ten years after you renounce it. And if you go set up your factories in Paraguay to ignore US law, just remember that you will have to pay the tarriff at the US Border that takes back all of the price advantage you got by making the stuff in a place where there are no labor or environmental protections.
The game is over. Republicans governed so badly for so long, they no longer have a pot to piss in. The Middle Class and Working Classes have awakened, they're going to put Trump in office, and Trump is going to enjoy using power to crush the people who have come after him during the election.
And the middle class is going to enjoy watching those bastards get crushed, and cheer Trump on as he does it.
And the rich like Buffett will actually support Trump eventually too. It was Buffett who observed that politics in America had turned into class warfare, and that his class was winning.
The sad thing is, Trump will save the country and the Republican Party will take credit.
I have no no idea what Trump will accomplish. I just know he is preferable to at least half the GOP candidates and all the Democratic candidates. I also know he isn't a candidate who will be forced to roll over and pee on his belly like so many GOP candidates the first time he is faced with some PC issue.
