When we handicapped Donald Trump’s campaign for the American presidency last month we were generous with the 25 to 1 longshot. We later remarked on some of his oratory that smacks of the confused and simplistic Adolf Hitler diatribes in Munich in the 1920s and his corporatism that smacks of Benito Mussolini in the same era.
But Trump has a long way to go before you can label him as a fascist or a Nazi. Nobody seems to be able to define him in his megalomaniac state. If he had any instinct for politics though he would have gone out and bought the best political strategist that money can buy and then do what the hell he was told.
Trump was the buffoon that stepped into a vacuum of leadership in the Republican Party and surrounded by a broad field of losers, he ran amok. As former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin put it, he is loved by those rock ‘n’ rollers and Holy Rollers of the GOP. And if you could not stand out in that dismal mob of alsorans, you were not trying.
The man is now spending half his time trying to explain away some ignorant statement he made a few hours earlier. He has even achieved the almost impossible task of being hated by more women than any potential Republican candidate in history.
Trump has his baying pack of sycophants actually believing his claim that he can make the Mexicans pay for a ludicrous wall between their two countries. The Mexicans have some very basic Anglo-Saxon words for that idea.
There is no question that Trump is a bully and unrealistic in his ideas, but so far he has said nothing about the violent takeover of the government. He does seem to consider democracy a drag but he apparently does not see himself as a dictator. He has been sincere in trying to secure a majority of the GOP delegates for the July party convention in Cleveland. (Frankly the GOP would be wise to change the venue of that convention to somewhere in the middle of the Mojave Desert.)
So far in this Republican race, Trump has enraged blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, the LGBT community, liberals and women. Only a buffoon would make that many enemies while trying to win the American Presidency. And even if he wins the nomination, there might be the highest party crossover vote in American history to make sure he is defeated.
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