This post began as a comment on shaun’s post What Happens When You Use Bigotry & Hate As Weapons.
I put it online there and then decided it should be a standalone post of its own. So…here it is.
Read it and weep.
Shaun wrote (regarding Donald Trump):
…what goes up must come down in the cruel physics of politics.
Yes indeed.
But the question remains…when?
He can pump his own balloon with his own money, and every attack on him by mainstream media just makes him more popular with his base. The mainstream media have shucked and jived so shamelessly for so long that they are now a negative factor. Upside down and backwards. Inverse and retrograde. Trump understands this and he is using it with great skill. Unless some investigative reporter comes up with a truly damning piece of information about him…serious personal information…his balloon is just going to keep going.
Up, up and away.
Watch.
Trump’s beyond-the-pale attack on McCain in declaring “he’s not a war hero” for being captured during the Vietnam War, never mind that he was held prisoner for five and a half years in Hanoi and refused early release despite being repeatedly beaten, quickly became the excuse the other candidates were praying for (the execrable Cruz excepted) to lock, load and lash back, and the news media needed to stop acting like it was intimidated by Trump and begin piling on. Or at least do some serious vetting.
Actually, it’s not “beyond the pale” politically. He picked the perfect victim. All the hoo hah that followed just made him stronger. Again, media (and politician) inverse retrograde results. A huge segment of the population is now anti-politician and anti-media. Too much mediocrity topped by too much failure and too much greed. People have had enough.
It’s not like Trump’s popularity is coming from any kind of intelligent majority. People with any brains at all have been anti-politician and anti-media for decades. It’s just that people are fed up with the tissue of lies we laughingly call a culture and he convinces them that he is telling…yelling, really…the truth.
He also wrote:
Predictably, one of the first post-McCain slander reports concerned Trump being evasive and seemingly embarrassed about why he never served in the military at the height of the war McCain volunteered for despite having a medical deferment he has described as being only “short term.” Next up were stories that he is a closet liberal who has donated more of his fortune to Democrats than Republicans, including Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. He also has supported universal health care and was pro-choice until recently. And then came stories about his seat-of-the-pants operation: That he’s a less than serious candidate who brags he only spends about half his time campaigning, hasn’t bothered to assemble much of a staff, one of whom is a former The Apprentice contestant, and doesn’t take advice from anyone who isn’t The Donald.
His is not an issue-driven popularity, shaun. The only thing In that paragraph that is going to register for potential Trump voters is the last idea…that he doesn’t rely on the usual coterie of DeeCeeLand hangers-on, that he makes up his own mind.
According to a corollary law of political physics, Trump’s poll numbers should begin dropping now that it’s open season on him. We shall see.
Yes we shall. If instead of dropping they begin to skyrocket? We are in big trouble. Bet on that as well. I predict that the major polling organizations…PermaGov satraps, all…will start trying to skew the numbers down if at all possible, but they can only ride that trick pony so far and it’s the only trick they know. What if he just ignores them and continues to make news. Big rallies, sensationalistic pronouncements, etc. The only real weapon that could be used against him would be if the media ignored him, and since he’s a cash cow for those media that’s not likely to happen. Money before honor, after all. It’s the Omertican way.
Gonna be an interesting summer and fall, that’s for sure.
Watch.
We may be witnessing the newest phase of Omertican politics.
The Reality Show Party.
Reality Show 101.
They asked for it, the media did, and they got it.
Watch.
As a campaigner, he has the Midas touch.
They love him!!!
I am feeling a very deep fear here. I can see a serious accident coming and I have no way to control the car.
The reaction to the last 25 years of PermaGov fix is upon us and its name is Trump.
Watch
AG
