Now I am 100% convinced that he can win and win big.
Trump seemed a little clumsy at first but he's a quick learner and it's scary to see how smooth and confident he is getting on the campaign trail. Today's appearance in Iowa was positively Reaganesque. He is absolutely killing it out there and the effortless way in which he is handling the hostile press tells me that he is unstoppable at this point.
There are still many Americans who feel Trump is a joke and cannot possibly win (because the media is telling them so) but as time goes on, many of them will come around.
Aside from Trump, Ted Cruz is my favorite candidate. However, he is only 44 years old and it won't be the end of the world if he loses out to Trump this go around. In fact, I think Trump will give Cruz an important role in his administration that will set him up to be even more effective when he gets in the White House himself.
After being fairly despondent about the state of affairs regarding the Republican Party this past 20 years or so, I am starting to feel good again. It's starting to feel more and more like 1980.
I hear ya. From the begining I said Trump is following advice of Tsun Tsu. Never fight on a battlefield carefully prepared by the enemy. No question he has destroyed the Rat/enemedia battlefield. Like you, at first I did not think he was doing it for himself but as the weeks go by I am not as certain. This latest, we should keep families together, they should all go” will put him over the top. At this point the next question seems to be, “If he does win, what will he do with it?”
Like a mountain climber will he just admire the view briefly and then go home? Delegate the thing out and kick back? That could go both ways, actually. Or will he charge in and increase his momentum and do 100 days of Trump? He could use that bully pulpit and really transform America. Not just the Rat/enemedia battlefield but drain the swamp of corruption in DC. Everyone else in a hundred years has been told on arrival in DC that, “That’s nice you got elected back home by the yokels but this is how we do things here”. Trump will be one that no one would dare say that to. A billionaire who is 69 has nothing to prove and essentially nothing to lose. It is just possible he could actually accomplish what no one else can. With Ted Cruz as his Val Jar it could be stunning. One thing fer sure, the next year is going to be one for the books. Like nothing seen since 1776.