This Cannot Be Disputed At Least With a Straight Face
Reasons
why Donald J. Trump has become so popular with many Republicans. Pretty
simple stuff, really: In essence it’s because he panders to the bigotry,
racism, hate, paranoia, prejudice, lowest common denominator (ignorance) that
the Republican Party has embraced for decades.
Despite that, there are still many in the media arena, FOX-type pundits in general, and just plain old common folk who love his rise in the GOP’s race to capture the White House in November 2016. What are we hearing the most about why Trump has “caught on” as it were? Examples of what his supporters (mostly those who have or say they will vote for him):
Despite that, there are still many in the media arena, FOX-type pundits in general, and just plain old common folk who love his rise in the GOP’s race to capture the White House in November 2016. What are we hearing the most about why Trump has “caught on” as it were? Examples of what his supporters (mostly those who have or say they will vote for him):
1. He tells it like it is: Trump
isn’t “telling it like it is” because practically nothing he says is actually
true. Just because someone says something repetitively, rudely and confidently
doesn’t make what they’re saying remotely accurate or factual.
2. He taps into the anger about
a failed status quo: Thus, he panders to bigots, racists and paranoid people
who think anything that’s not straight, white, and Christian isn’t really a
part of “American values.”
3. He is an outsider: Partially
true. Trump has never been a politician. But neither were Carly Fiorina or Ben
Carson and they never saw the overwhelming (and sustained) success that Trump
has this election.
4. He’s not an elitist:
This should make anyone laugh out loud. Try to explain how a
multi-billionaire who came from a family with a whole lot money isn’t an
“elitist?” Does Trump live a modest life? This guy slaps his name on damn near
everything he can and then brags about how rich he is nearly every day.
5. He is against trade
agreements and promises to bring jobs back home: Trump is running on a platform
of bringing jobs back to America and how trade agreements have cost Americans
jobs and he is same guy whose business manufactures products in China, Mexico,
and other overseas markets? Seems rather hypocritical – like many others, when
he has the option of creating manufacturing jobs, what does he do? He chooses cheaper
overseas labor.
6. We are sick and tired and betrayed
by the Republican Party: Why is that? Republicans have spent years making bold
promises for political gain on which they knew they could never deliver. If at
all and if the GOP has become corrupted, then it’s rich people like Trump who
were the ones who corrupted it.
7. He is very masculine and
tough – a real man: Call this an “awe shit moment”. Trump is so thin-skinned that
he lashes out at anyone who criticizes him, while being clearly insecure about
the size of his hands and whining about anyone who he feels is being
“unfair” to him and makes him “manly, tough and masculine?”
8. He says what a lot of
Americans have been thinking all along: Sure, that is true, if they want to
sustain a ton of bigoted, ignorant, and flat-out stupid people running the country
– that is people who believe a lot of information that is not factual or even
remotely true (e.g., that they get from FOX or Limbaugh, et al).
Are those things noteworthy qualities or not? More
like dummies being the key to his fame at this moment in time, and that is the
saddest part of all
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