Finally finished it up. Hope there's something here for you.
I spent zero time explaining why Hillary is not presidential, but I have a feeling we'll see a lot of comments on that vein. Cheers.
It should be noted that the “Camelot” label for the Kennedy years masked what was really a hard-core white trash family. The Clintons were a perfect successor to them.
I have concluded as this is the reason the left calls Trump “deplorable”.
They have “conditioned” the people to accept a candidate that has been “accepted” by the 1%.
People are easy to fool as you see the masses vote Democrat regardless of who it is.
Trump is changing the race. Democrats rely on division and Trump relies on America.
Big Difference.
I just read the first paragraph, and am about to read the rest.
But until them, I have what is a very very lame comment, however it came to mind without my trying, so authenticity demands I say it.
Obama reminds me more of a-lot-of-camels than camelot. That is an aside to your point, does not negate it. OK back to reading, possibly with apologies for distracting from the point.
Trump is breaking the mold, that is for sure.
He has also broken the strangehold of the Cheap Labor Express on the GOP.
Trump and Melania are going to be so great for Our Country, her style and manners and speaking foreign languages, and Trump and his wit, he is very witty at times, but his strength, the way it is, the ‘street fighter’ attitude...
I watched him in Mexico, he has that look and then a smile and a hand shake, but don't under estimate him, he can bite like a ‘viper’ but give you all he has the next minute...
Do we HAVE to wait until Nov. 8th??? Can't we just go into the White House and jerk the twits out and clean and fumigate the place and put Trump in now??? Please tell me we can!!!
Thank you for your article...it was great!!!
The left always thinks of itself as the protectors of the “little guy” but they’re far from it. The deplorables are the white working class people of this country, traditionally the backbone of the Democratic Party. Today those people are hicks, rubes, “white” trash, Nazis, bigots, homophobes, people possessed of an IQ of less than 60, and living in flyover country. We talk about what Dems do and say about blacks who dare to leave their plantation. I guess we’re seeing what happens when white working class people decide to ditch them too. The Democrat Party of today is a disgrace to everything great that is American. They are dishonest, corrupt, intolerant and filled with hate and rage over any difference in opinion that doesn’t jive with their thinking.
JFK was very presidential and mostly herpes. By body weight, I mean
good work. do some more. :0)
Camelot? More like Cumalot.
Couple qualifiers about Trump being a business man, which is different from just being a 'capitalist' which these days includes financiers who produce nothing.
So he's a businessman distinct from just being a capitalist - he's a producer - of buildings - stone, steel and dirt ... which is why he's a blue collar guy. When the masonry sucks, it's on him as well as his mason. Also ... he's a NEW YORK business man. People from NYC don't flinch when he speaks as he does.
I think you make a good point that he is changing what America thinks of as good/acceptable presidential style. It's actually way more in tune with the rugged individualists - and producers before they were politicians - who founded the country.
But for the liberals ... anything but authenticity is all that matters.
OUTSTANDING! Thanks, pocopundit.
HOORAY Trump!
Good writing. I believe we are seeing that rare “paradigm shift”’in which we redefine our public and political ethos. I’m struck by the utter contempt the elite 1%’hold for the rest of us. I have never seen an American campaign where one party goes so far out of way to characterize their opponents as sub human irredeemable troglodytes.
The only campaign I recall in which the opponents were viewed as subhuman and irredeemable were the Nazis’ view of Jews and gypsies. Hillary and her basket carries her contempt for all to see. I’m not seeing that behavior from Trump because he wants to broaden his elecorial appeal. Paradigms will massively shift if Trump succeeds in relating to, not humiliation them.
This is ‘Grade A’ writing; with an original theme.
You really need to try to get this published in print somewhere.
Reagan80
Good writeup poco...
Yes, one of the key features of Trump is that he stands for MERITOCRACY over MEDIOCRACY.
Obama and Hillary celebrate the MEDIOCRE things/people in the world. Trump encourages everyone to improve their MERIT. Be the best they can be without claiming victimhood.
Trump is an OPTIMIST. Reagan was an eternal OPTIMIST.
Hillary is a PESSIMIST.
The voters like a winner.
Obama is not an OPTIMIST - as it turned out, but with the “Yes we can” slogan, the Koolaid drinkers were duped into thinking he was an optimist.
Does the “presidential style” aka ‘Camelot’ include the d***ing of ‘bimbos’ that both Kennedy and Clinton did throughout their presidencies?
In the case of another president, what is the masculine noun of ‘bimbo’?
I think a lot of the key to Trump’s style is the authenticity it projects. Basically from the Kennedy’s up through the Obama’s you could probably say that there was a commonality of all of it in that it was the era of mass media, and so a carefully constructed TV personality that could be stage managed effectively was the ticket. But we are moving past the mass media era into another one where there’s an overriding demand that people be believable, that you can look under the hood and what you see is what you get. For better or worse it is a result of the extreme media oversaturation that characterizes our age, reality TV, YouTube videos, cellphone cameras, as Jeb found out and Hillary is finding out, you can’t just buy some ads, appear on a couple of interview shows, and show up at the debate with a certain persona, and everyone just buys it. People need to get the sense that who you are on the cell phone camera video is the same person you are in your 30 second spot. Trump’s “flaws” only reinforce the sense that he’s an authentic person, who like all of us, sometimes says the wrong thing at the wrong time.
When you compare Hillary and Trump on this measure, you can see why he’s filling arenas and she can’t fill a junior high school auditorium. Yes, the Democrat drones will always guarantee that 40-45% base for her, but they are not excited, they aren’t passionate like Trump’s people are.
Congratulations on a well written post. It is a timely one.
Trump is a winner who has been handed the torch from President Ronald Reagan. We have waited a long, long time for him. America with Trump will look forward to the future with excitement rather than fear.
Very timely article, Pocono Pundit!
Given the shallow and substanceless PC vapidity of the Shallowbama era, the country needs a politically incorrect shock, and there’s no better man for the job than Trump.
Although Trump can reach and appeal to the shallow segment of our society via his celebrity and his bling, there is so much more to him than this: He is an accomplished and wildly successful, hard-nosed businessman and negotiator. He is a fearless fighter in the PC wars. But most importantly of all, he is a patriot whose love for America is unquestioned.
Trump can reach people of different styles: the shallow, the businesspeople, the warriors, and the patriots.
To unify all these different groups, it will take a man of substance. And Trump has the goods.
Substance trumps style.
I believe you're spot on with this analysis. The public wants the grownups back in charge.
Daddy Trump
Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos calls Trump "Daddy", and he's got a point. Trump reminds me a lot of my own Dad: tough, fair, protective and nurturing.
Clearly Trump's way of communicating is more open and direct — more attuned to the way people talk in a family at home. Family members argue with each other! They get angry, curse, cry, and eventually make up. But along the way, bad habits are corrected, long repressed feelings are brought out into the open, and family peace/solidity is restored.
So America's new Dad is airing out our Nation's dirty laundry. And the dining room table conversation he started is necessary if America is to remain a free republic, an economically sustainable nation, and a family of multi-cultural patriots.