Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a sexist, race-baiting, anti-immigrant political freak who makes crude comments about boffing his daughter if he wasn’t her father, and how Hillary Clinton “got schlonged” by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic Primary.
So why is he still topping polls and constipating critics? Why is he the second-most admired man in the nation? Why does his campaign seem to have the shelf life of Yoo-Hoo?
The Donald’s success is rooted in President Obama’s failure. America’s disenchantment with her invertebrate-in-chief birthed the super-stumper now gripping us by our short and curlies and tossing us about like rag dolls on a roller coaster. Trump has poked us in the eye — with a cattle prod — to remind us about our comatose policies and blind submission to our sworn enemies. His knack for talking turkey with unapologetic defiance is a Thanksgiving feast for folk starved of sound politics.
Words matter because they frame the action, and Trump’s unscripted gospel surges like smoldering lava from the jaws of a growling volcano. His take on the Iran nuke deal? “I’ve never seen something so incompetently negotiated, and I mean never.” On the anti-cop mob? “Our great African-American president hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.”
Trump has turned the public stage into his private living room and opened a frank national chin-wag about fearsome topics, such as illegal immigration, racial dissension, and the global Islamo-migraine. Along the way, he has amassed fans and popularity — if begrudgingly.
“Half of American voters say they’d be embarrassed to have Donald Trump as their commander-in-chief and most Americans think he doesn’t have a good chance in November, but there he is, still at the top of the Republican heap,” marvels Quinnipiac University pollster Tim Malloy.
Winston Churchill was also dismissed as a mewling muttonhead for his fervent forewarnings about Hitler, before he led Britain to victory in World War II. That would place Trump the chump in excellent company.
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