| . . . Perhaps [Trump] is selling HOPE. We need hope. Because America is in a hell of a mess. I agree. And another thing that Herman Cain explains very well in this excellent article is that Trump can win the general election because he can attract a wide range of voters, beyond just the conservative base. So this is another key factor. I don't particularly like some of Trump's anti-free-trade ideas. But guess what, a lot of independent and working class Democrats care about protecting jobs -- and Trump is speaking to them too. For someone to get elected president, they need to build a coalition of support. No one can psychoanalyze a candidate's motives 100%. But I take heart knowing that:
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Back in mid-december Rush exposed Trump’s secret, private side.
Rush began that week being very critical of Donald Trump for bashing Cruz and making remarks that ended up encouraging the Left to go after Scalia [a truly SUMPREME court justice].
Then Limbaugh revealed a side of Donald Trump that precious few here in the FR ever had a chance to see. Donald Trump talked with Limbaugh from time-to-time for years.
Conclusion: Rush said that he frquently keeps hearing the same Trump he had heard all along. I am under the impression that Limbaugh’s memory of those casual conversations is vague, but he emphasized in particular that Trump was ‘very critical of Obama.’
What that means is that Trump is not quite as ‘Johnny-Come-Lately’ as one might believe. If he is a ‘closet leftist’, then Trump is very clever indeed and had ‘greased’ his ‘snake-oil schemes’ by ‘planting lies’ every time he met Rush.
The conspiracy theories against Trump keep getting harder to believe. [And now Herman Cain.]
Best I can tell, Trump’s patriotism is genuine.