The Greatest Show on Earth
--What a spectacle! What theater!
Donald Trump stands before the American people as a candidate for president.
We try to avoid politics round these parts, but when you’ve got Donald Trump gunning for president, it’s simply too hard to resist.
The Donald, the guy with the hair, the supreme clown of the universe, the biggest Barnum & Bailey act under the circus tent of American politics…
Politics hasn’t been this fun since, well, I can’t even say. Love him, hate him, it doesn’t matter. His entertainment value is without equal.
Whatever you do Donald, don’t drop out of it. Just don’t.
Talk about a nightmare for the Republican establishment. He digs his thumbs into their eyes at every turn. And who knows what’s next?
God gifted this man with a genius for offense.
As Winston Churchill said of Charles de Gaulle, Trump is a bull who carries his own china shop around with him (I can only assume the china isn’t made in China).
Just look at the dishes he smashed with the whole illegal immigration thing. He took one of the most delicate topics these politicos have to juggle… and threw the damn plate right down on the floor, shattering it into a million pieces, in front of everyone.
“How’s that for apples, Jeb?!”
He even called Mexicans rapists and criminals. Yup, he went there.
And the Republican establishment went right to the fainting couch. For good reason. They avoid the subject like the devil avoids holy water. Scares ‘em all to death.
They stammer and bark about it, they say the right things, but are as serious about stopping illegal immigration as the Democrats. Their corporate donors like cheap labor, you know. And then there’s the politics…
In 1988, George Bush I won 59% of the white vote and bagged something like 470 electoral votes. In the last election, Mitt Romney also got 59% of the white vote, but only pulled 209 electoral votes. So the Republicans are yanking what’s left of their hair out to snag Hispanic votes. There’s even a term for it -- “Hispandering.”
Now Trump comes along and does this?
No wonder the Republican establishment and its drummers in the conservative media want to ride him on a rail. They’d sink whatever differences they might have to finish Trump.
See how they set him up during that debate, the one with Fox’s Megyn Kelly captaining the show? They went right at him like pit bulls. And how did he react? He put it right back in their grills. When’s the last time you saw a presidential candidate do that? Or any politician?
We’re just not used to seeing that..
--The political establishment wants the ideological temperature set as close as possible to room temperature.
Don’t make waves. Don’t offend anyone. Talk a lot -- but don’t say much. Ring every bell but don’t set off alarms. And bait your hook with whatever worm will fetch the average, unthinking American voter drifting along with the current.
That’s the same American voter who took Barack Obama on his hands at the last two elections, by the way. Not once… twice.
And that debate, incidentally, was the highest rated presidential primary debate in history. 24 million tuned in. Why? Why else? How many crickets do you think would have plopped themselves down in front of the tube to watch Jeb Bush put the joint to sleep?
Trump stole the show, and turned the rest of ‘em into Confederate money. And he hasn’t slowed down since.
The latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump leading the Republican field at 28%. His closest competitor is at 12%. All the Republican establishment stooges are going nowhere fast.
And these establishment guys just don’t get it…
The American people are starving for someone like Trump. Starving. Someone who’ll come right out and speak his mind. No tinsel, no glad handing, no PC doubletalk, no trimming his sails to the political winds. None of it.
The charges and accusations that throw bridles on the tongues of politicians roll right off this guy. Charge the average Republican with racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, whatever, and it freezes them solid. And the accusers know it. They realize all they need to do to ruin someone is call him one of those things. And the harder the accused try to deny it the more guilty they seem.
Not Trump. He just doesn’t care.
And not only doesn’t it faze him, he fights back. They just don’t know how to handle that. Nobody fights back. But he does.
That’s why so many people love this guy.
And the funny thing is, Trump isn’t even conservative. He’s the classic RINO. He’s pro-choice, he’s whistled it up for national health care, he’s donated money to Democratic politicians – he’s even gone crooning for amnesty. Yes, amnesty. For illegal aliens. You know, the rapists and criminals.
His primary opponents, every one of them, are far more conservative than Trump. But none of that matters right now. Why not? The answer’s simple.
Here’s this guy who comes right out and takes on a topic that strikes a deep chord with most Americans -- that neither political party will touch. And he won’t shut up about it and he won’t buckle to the establishment. He stands immovable on his bedrock. That and that alone explains the runaway train that is Donald Trump.
--What will do the Donald in faster than anything? Acting like a politician. The second voters begin to smell a rat, he’s cooked.
He needs to follow Mark Twain’s advice for politicians -- admit everything. Hold nothing back. Even if you didn’t do, it, admit it anyway.
Twain once considered running for president. .”
This is the path to the White House!
Start trimming your sails and making backroom deals and you’re done. Brutal honesty -- even if you have to lie about it -- is your only shot.
Seriously, will Trump be president?
Does anyone really think he’s going to build a wall across the Mexican border and stick Mexico with the bill?
And does he have any real political convictions? I think the depth of his political convictions vary according to the depth of the pockets behind them.
He’s heart and soul for whatever will butter his parsnips, first and last.
But oh, the entertainment. Just watching the establishment types squirm…
We’ve never seen anything like it.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
And wouldn’t it be a hoot if both Trump and Bernie Sanders end up squaring off for president? The socialist versus the socialite!
It doesn’t matter who’ll the next president will be. He, she, it, whatever, won’t be able to do much about the economic malaise we’re in right now. The problems are just too big. And with the markets going haywire like they are and China devaluing its currency and all?
--Brian Maher
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--What a spectacle! What theater!
Donald Trump stands before the American people as a candidate for president.
We try to avoid politics round these parts, but when you’ve got Donald Trump gunning for president, it’s simply too hard to resist.
The Donald, the guy with the hair, the supreme clown of the universe, the biggest Barnum & Bailey act under the circus tent of American politics…
Politics hasn’t been this fun since, well, I can’t even say. Love him, hate him, it doesn’t matter. His entertainment value is without equal.
Whatever you do Donald, don’t drop out of it. Just don’t.
Talk about a nightmare for the Republican establishment. He digs his thumbs into their eyes at every turn. And who knows what’s next?
God gifted this man with a genius for offense.
As Winston Churchill said of Charles de Gaulle, Trump is a bull who carries his own china shop around with him (I can only assume the china isn’t made in China).
Just look at the dishes he smashed with the whole illegal immigration thing. He took one of the most delicate topics these politicos have to juggle… and threw the damn plate right down on the floor, shattering it into a million pieces, in front of everyone.
“How’s that for apples, Jeb?!”
He even called Mexicans rapists and criminals. Yup, he went there.
And the Republican establishment went right to the fainting couch. For good reason. They avoid the subject like the devil avoids holy water. Scares ‘em all to death.
They stammer and bark about it, they say the right things, but are as serious about stopping illegal immigration as the Democrats. Their corporate donors like cheap labor, you know. And then there’s the politics…
In 1988, George Bush I won 59% of the white vote and bagged something like 470 electoral votes. In the last election, Mitt Romney also got 59% of the white vote, but only pulled 209 electoral votes. So the Republicans are yanking what’s left of their hair out to snag Hispanic votes. There’s even a term for it -- “Hispandering.”
Now Trump comes along and does this?
No wonder the Republican establishment and its drummers in the conservative media want to ride him on a rail. They’d sink whatever differences they might have to finish Trump.
See how they set him up during that debate, the one with Fox’s Megyn Kelly captaining the show? They went right at him like pit bulls. And how did he react? He put it right back in their grills. When’s the last time you saw a presidential candidate do that? Or any politician?
We’re just not used to seeing that..
--The political establishment wants the ideological temperature set as close as possible to room temperature.
Don’t make waves. Don’t offend anyone. Talk a lot -- but don’t say much. Ring every bell but don’t set off alarms. And bait your hook with whatever worm will fetch the average, unthinking American voter drifting along with the current.
That’s the same American voter who took Barack Obama on his hands at the last two elections, by the way. Not once… twice.
And that debate, incidentally, was the highest rated presidential primary debate in history. 24 million tuned in. Why? Why else? How many crickets do you think would have plopped themselves down in front of the tube to watch Jeb Bush put the joint to sleep?
Trump stole the show, and turned the rest of ‘em into Confederate money. And he hasn’t slowed down since.
The latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump leading the Republican field at 28%. His closest competitor is at 12%. All the Republican establishment stooges are going nowhere fast.
And these establishment guys just don’t get it…
The American people are starving for someone like Trump. Starving. Someone who’ll come right out and speak his mind. No tinsel, no glad handing, no PC doubletalk, no trimming his sails to the political winds. None of it.
The charges and accusations that throw bridles on the tongues of politicians roll right off this guy. Charge the average Republican with racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, whatever, and it freezes them solid. And the accusers know it. They realize all they need to do to ruin someone is call him one of those things. And the harder the accused try to deny it the more guilty they seem.
Not Trump. He just doesn’t care.
And not only doesn’t it faze him, he fights back. They just don’t know how to handle that. Nobody fights back. But he does.
That’s why so many people love this guy.
And the funny thing is, Trump isn’t even conservative. He’s the classic RINO. He’s pro-choice, he’s whistled it up for national health care, he’s donated money to Democratic politicians – he’s even gone crooning for amnesty. Yes, amnesty. For illegal aliens. You know, the rapists and criminals.
His primary opponents, every one of them, are far more conservative than Trump. But none of that matters right now. Why not? The answer’s simple.
Here’s this guy who comes right out and takes on a topic that strikes a deep chord with most Americans -- that neither political party will touch. And he won’t shut up about it and he won’t buckle to the establishment. He stands immovable on his bedrock. That and that alone explains the runaway train that is Donald Trump.
--What will do the Donald in faster than anything? Acting like a politician. The second voters begin to smell a rat, he’s cooked.
He needs to follow Mark Twain’s advice for politicians -- admit everything. Hold nothing back. Even if you didn’t do, it, admit it anyway.
Twain once considered running for president. .”
This is the path to the White House!
Start trimming your sails and making backroom deals and you’re done. Brutal honesty -- even if you have to lie about it -- is your only shot.
Seriously, will Trump be president?
Does anyone really think he’s going to build a wall across the Mexican border and stick Mexico with the bill?
And does he have any real political convictions? I think the depth of his political convictions vary according to the depth of the pockets behind them.
He’s heart and soul for whatever will butter his parsnips, first and last.
But oh, the entertainment. Just watching the establishment types squirm…
We’ve never seen anything like it.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
And wouldn’t it be a hoot if both Trump and Bernie Sanders end up squaring off for president? The socialist versus the socialite!
It doesn’t matter who’ll the next president will be. He, she, it, whatever, won’t be able to do much about the economic malaise we’re in right now. The problems are just too big. And with the markets going haywire like they are and China devaluing its currency and all?
--Brian Maher
Laissez Faire Books,
Laissez Faire Today
Laissez Faire Family
Laissez Faire Today Is Just One Small Part of Laissez Faire’s Comprehensive Suite of Offerings...
Laissez Faire Today is your daily free e-letter that explores current events and topics related to freedom, self-reliance and independent action. But that's not all we have to offer! There are several other paid subscription newsletters available to choose from. This includes our flagship Laissez Faire Letter, which gives you actionable tips from our expert contributors on how to live a healthier, wealthier and self-reliant life. Click here today to learn more about our other newsletters, which range in topic from alternative health solutions to securing a better retirement!
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