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2016-01-10 Home Front: Politix

Mark Steyn Attends Trump Rally -- 'Notes On A Phenomenon'

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Posted by Fred 2016-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Below, is from the excellent comments:

I’ved always thought Kasich was taking a chance on the “mailman’s son” routine. I’ve been waiting for someone to come up with a joke about “going postal.”

Ponder that one for a minute or two. I am in full agreement with the writer.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-01-10 03:51|| 2016-01-10 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Forget politics and policies, Trump has some of the same characteristics of Ronald Reagan:
1) A real joie de vivre that is infectious.
2) The playful attitude of a puppy coupled to a core of iron ("I paid for this microphone.")
3) A total disregard for the mandarins.

The policies are irrelevant at this point it is the atmosphere that matters.

Posted by AlanC 2016-01-10 10:46|| 2016-01-10 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 But can you see Trump on a horse? Exactly. Dis d00d Fred Jackson Turner had it figured out. Reagan was the quentissal American. Western, looking always at the horizon, generous to a fault, a fine actor and scary as shit.

"We start bombing in 5 minutes"
Oh the mic was on, well LOL.

Posted by Shipman 2016-01-10 11:48|| 2016-01-10 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 AlanC: Big difference between sounding like Reagan and acting like Reagan.

Posted by Iblis 2016-01-10 12:31|| 2016-01-10 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Iblis, you are correct.
RR is my favorite president in my lifetime and I was here, if not voting, for Truman. He walked the walk as well as talked the talk.

Trump has proven that he can talk the talk but he has no history about walking like RR's governorship, etc.

Right now talk is what matters. If he should win I'll be praying that he can walk. There's no Democrap that I could stomach.

I think Cruz is the best one left in the running.

Posted by AlanC 2016-01-10 12:53|| 2016-01-10 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 AlanC: Cruz does seem to be a real conservative. As they say, he certainly has made all the right enemies.

Like you, I was around for Reagan. My kids have only known Clinton / Bush / Obama as presidents. Makes me sad that that's the only America they have seen.

As for Trump, I enjoyed Steyn's take. Makes sense that Trump can run a campaign well. That's a management job after all. Also makes sense that professional politicos don't have management skills. The frustration with the political ruling class, RINO Division, is also something I feel deeply.

Where we part ways is perhaps strategy. With politics I play chess, and Trump feels like a roll of the dice.

Posted by Iblis 2016-01-10 13:52|| 2016-01-10 13:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Trump has a chance of being a good President.

He communicates well and he seems to understand what is driving the angst of the average American. Which is amazing considering he is a gazilllionaire and politicians in Washington with far less money and more time cannot seem to understand.

He also is a good communicator, which was RR's greatest gift. Ronnie was the "Great Communicator" and Trump seems to be able to do the same things.

Lastly, he has a sense of humor and an ability to make fun of himself, qualities that most people equate with self-confidence and self-assurance. That resonates well in a political landscape of thin skinned sycophants with no sense of humor.

I think he will be decisive and will not quibble around with subtleties. This "nuisance" thing that the Euros liked about Obama has given way to concern about the realities of the Black and White realities of Islam with no shades of gray.

After a bunch of phony conservatives, I think Trump is more Teddy Roosevelt than anything else.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-01-10 13:55|| 2016-01-10 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 >I think Trump has a chance of being a good President.

Trump worries me. What's behind Trump's success is in a large part zero-sum property deals (not classic-capitalism as Adam Smith/Ricardo would term it). Good for Trump, not good for America.

I do worry that trump would run the country as an extension of his "business" interests.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-01-10 15:46|| 2016-01-10 15:46|| Front Page Top

#9 BP, as I said, there's no history of Donnie "walking the walk". In terms of policy & politics (building proper alliances domestic & foreign) he's basically a cipher.

What he isn't is a known traitor to anything American or a member of a known criminal gang. Which means that if it is a choice between Bernie or Hillary and Trump my vote goes hands down to Trump.

I am hoping for Ted to come through but we'll have to see what the primaries bring. Either Ted or Don seems like a kick in the balls to the Rino establishment and that's a good thing.

Posted by AlanC 2016-01-10 16:00|| 2016-01-10 16:00|| Front Page Top

#10 AC, isn't management an art of selecting competent subordinates---which skill Trump, apparently, has?
And (IMO) any sycophant, like Condoleezza or ValJar, who wants to get the better of Don, is ought to get up really early.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-10 16:08|| 2016-01-10 16:08|| Front Page Top

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