Some Insight About Trump and the Bridge We're All About to Cross
Christie endorsing Trump last week may signal the end of the GOP establishment's resistance to the "outsider." (BTW, how does someone as connected as Trump manage to be seen as an "outsider"?) If that's true, we're crossing a bridge. And we're crossing that bridge as we simultaneously experience what now must be seen - let's just face it - as an unfolding credit crisis, one whose proportions may not be clear to some, but which should not take any of us by surprise.
The bridge we're crossing will take us to parts unknown, just as central bank policy around the world takes us to parts unknown. Just as no one really has any clue what negative interest rates portend, so too no one really knows where a Trump candidacy may lead us. Will the GOP cease to exist as a party, even if Trump receives their nomination? It shouldn't shock us if we think about how not a single politician from that Grand Old Party managed to engage the attention of the American people, most specifically those who identify themselves as Republicans. Not a single one. Maybe the best example of this would be the total wipe out of Jeb Bush, even in the face of the great Bush political combine pulling out all the stops. The effect of all their money and string-pulling going into the last primary was zilch. Even Mama Barbara Bush, a fairly revered character, couldn't save son Jeb. Seemed rather shocking didn't it?
And, of course, on the "other side," there's Bernie Sanders. Even though he's a politician, he's managed to promote himself as somehow not like all those other politicians. (Of course he is, but people somehow seem to take Bernie seriously here.) And while Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primary over the weekend, generating a flood of predictions that she had once and for all rebuffed the Sanders bid, you have to wonder how true that is. Unless her purported massive support from black voters (and who can understand how such people see her as a plus in their lives), proves true, the talk of Sanders demise may be more establishment manipulation.
So with that as background, you might benefit from reading Peggy Noonan's attempt to explain the impetus behind Trump. It's a creative way of understanding what's going on out there. The article addressed the obvious and not-so-obvious. The obvious:
The bridge we're crossing will take us to parts unknown, just as central bank policy around the world takes us to parts unknown. Just as no one really has any clue what negative interest rates portend, so too no one really knows where a Trump candidacy may lead us. Will the GOP cease to exist as a party, even if Trump receives their nomination? It shouldn't shock us if we think about how not a single politician from that Grand Old Party managed to engage the attention of the American people, most specifically those who identify themselves as Republicans. Not a single one. Maybe the best example of this would be the total wipe out of Jeb Bush, even in the face of the great Bush political combine pulling out all the stops. The effect of all their money and string-pulling going into the last primary was zilch. Even Mama Barbara Bush, a fairly revered character, couldn't save son Jeb. Seemed rather shocking didn't it?
And, of course, on the "other side," there's Bernie Sanders. Even though he's a politician, he's managed to promote himself as somehow not like all those other politicians. (Of course he is, but people somehow seem to take Bernie seriously here.) And while Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primary over the weekend, generating a flood of predictions that she had once and for all rebuffed the Sanders bid, you have to wonder how true that is. Unless her purported massive support from black voters (and who can understand how such people see her as a plus in their lives), proves true, the talk of Sanders demise may be more establishment manipulation.
So with that as background, you might benefit from reading Peggy Noonan's attempt to explain the impetus behind Trump. It's a creative way of understanding what's going on out there. The article addressed the obvious and not-so-obvious. The obvious:
One issue obviously roiling the U.S. and western Europe is immigration. It is THE issue of the moment, a real and concrete one but also a symbolic one: It stands for all the distance between governments and their citizens.As for the not-so-obvious, read the article (HERE). Whether you agree with her or not, she's trying to see what's on the other side of that bridge we're all about to cross.
It is of course the issue that made Donald Trump.
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