Canadians need their own wall. It would hardly be fair for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to have a wall on the south without equal opportunity for the north. This conclusion seems to be necessary as you meet Canadians who think Trump is cool. Hard to believe, but true.
Talking to one lady recently, it was obvious that she sincerely admired Mr. Trump and she was looking forward to him being U.S. President. What made her attitude doubly concerning was that she is a born-again something, home schools her children to keep them from impure thoughts and knows for sure that the rest of us are destined for the fires of hell.
She does not care that Trump has a reputation of being something of a libertine, a scoundrel, a nasty business person and knows nothing about politics. Nor is she concerned about his erratic behaviour, his obvious bigotry and misogyny and disrespect for women. She does not even care that Mr. Trump is not regular in his church attendance. You would wish that this woman would be so forgiving of the rest of us sinners.
“Tell me,” she said, leaning forward and putting her hand on our arm, “Why do you not think Donald Trump will be the next President?”
There was no way we could tell her that it is just Donald Trump’s ego that is running for President of the United States and he was definitely not equipped with the political smarts needed to serve in that capacity. We needed a simpler reason. And that led to the following answer:
“As you have probably noted there is a sizeable number of angry Americans who are supporting Mr. Trump and believe that he will get even for them. They want to get even with the very rich without recognizing that Mr. Trump is very rich. They want to get even with people who send jobs off-shore without recognizing that Mr. Trump is one of those people who has been sending jobs off-shore. They want to get even with business people who offer them a less than living wage without recognizing that Mr. Trump hires people at less than a living wage.
“Regrettably there is no reason to expect that these people will see the light any time soon. They want Trump.
“But the good news is that Mr. Trump has no organization that can make sure that people go to the polls to vote for him. He is too cheap to pay for that. He thinks the Republican Party will do it for him. Which is not too likely. Sure they will have people out getting Republicans to the polls because they want as many of their politicians as possible to survive despite Trump. They will just not place any emphasis on voting for Mr. Trump.
“And it would be a waste of time anyway. Only about 50 per cent of eligible American voters are likely to bother to vote for the presidency. Mr. Trump’s angry supporters are not among the voting frequent flyers.”
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