Greenfield: To Understand Trump You Have to Understand New York

The Sultan Knish blog ^ | Thursday, February 11, 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

[M. Thatcher]

Trump isn't our candidate. He's our murder weapon. And we are going to use him to gut the GOPe like a fish. Then we are going to toss the remains onto the gut pile for the buzzards. All good now?

Totally agree.

I do think Greenfield is right about this, however:

In New York, the GOP is not going to make your campaign happen. You have to make your campaign happen, often by fighting an apathetic and rotten GOP establishment, while doing everything on your own. Trump is just running the same type of campaign nationally.

[IChing]

Strong message, but the fact remains that the AVERAGE republican is not a policy expert, as he said. Being familiar or even knowledgeable of policy doesn’t equate to expertise.

Last night I was at my part time job. My partner on the shift is a retired career marine, 58, patriotic conservative, great guy and I trust him 100% to have my back.

News of Scalia’s death had just broken about an hour before we began our shift together. We talked prospects for Obama trying to replace Scalia. In discussing opinions I’d heard on WMAL driving in, my partner did not know who Joe DiGenova or Alan Dershowitz are. He also had to ask me whether Scalia was conservative. Later in the shift we talked about Islam. He had not heard of Dr. Bill Warner nor Lt. Col. Allen West.

[IChing]

Bingo. Treehouse.

[M. Thatcher]

He said the average republican voter isn't a policy expert. That's pure USDA prime, gold plated, bullshit. We have had our faces ground into policy like a dog into a mess on the carpet. We hump the hills, have ass in the grass, drove unsecure MSRs in Iraq, get ignored at the VA, have family killed by Mexicans, had grandmother heads sawed off in Oklahoma, daughters shot on the wharf in San Fran, been shot to pieces in San Berdoo by crazed dune coons, can't run a marathon in Boston, had the skinnies from Blackhawk down kick us out of cabs in Minneapolis, seen a bacchanal of homosexuality in our schools, watched our astronauts have to hitch rides on Russian spaceships, watched baby parts being sold, had our emails all stolen and read. Do we know policy Mr Sultan who I love? F'ing A bet your assets on it. We are F'ing policy experts! Is just that we utterly hate the policy, so they say we don't understand.

Every. Word. Gold.

[whinecountry]

It’s only February but I am already nominating yours for post of the year. Awesome.

[VTenigma]

Excellent screed, I was thinking along those lines myself.

[headsonpikes]

“Is just that we utterly hate the policy, so they say we don’t understand.”

Bingo!

[DesertRhino]

I haven’t heard of warner or digenova. You don’t need to know them to be a 100% expert on American domestic and firing policy. Yes, we are policy experts.
Your fallacy is that policy is a who’s who. Your friend and millions like him know what policy they want.

[stocksthatgoup]

The New York vales meme really helped Cruz too. /s

[DuncanWaring]

Works for me.

The gods of the copybook headings counsel us to stick with the devil we know, but I've been doing that for 20+ years, and have gotten nowhere.

I want to see gutted fish.

[Lagmeister]

The New York vales meme really helped Cruz too. /s

And the Cruz-cretins wonder why they get such a reaction from their constant posting of these 'hit blogs' - Hey! How about Trump's tax plan that makes Cruz's plan look like it was put together by a moronic graduate of Common Core.

[IChing]

Go ahead and try to convince whoever that the average republican is a policy expert.

Expertise, by definition, is exceptional. Average, by definition, is not exceptional. This is basic logic. Is it too much for you?

[corbe]

Thanks again Mr. Foxwell for the DG thread.

Trump is labeled as a destructive candidate, yet he's the only one to have grasped the most basic principle of politics, which is that you have to tell people how you will improve their lives in a way that is easy for them to understand and remember. Trump has done that. His rivals haven't.

Still waiting for Trump to tell me how he is going to improve my life.

[dennisw]

Agree w you on all points and this is a rare miss for Daniel Greenfield. And if not Trump who does he have in mind? Our choices are limited. No one has talked about free trade, outsourcing and illegal immigration for a long time//// Not the way Donald Trump has and that’s good enough for me. All these trade deals since NAFTA deals stink for America, only make our trade deficits larger and Donald Trump is the only candidate boldly taking this on.
Only one candidate has talked loudly about putting up a wall at the Mexican border.

[SueRae]

That was a very good read please add me to the ping list. Thank you.

[KGeorge]

Amen.

[caww]

You seem to think it necessary to completely blow up the system.... tear it apart.... and render it a quivering mass completely ineffectual....Ok...then what’s it’s replacement?????....you can’t just leave a pile of destruction without cleaning up the mess and replacing it with “something”.....

[caww]

Why would Trumps supporters defend a guy who refers to an opponent as a “pedophile” or a “pus**y”??.... that is not what civilized people do. ..Why would getting us destroyed by a liberalized SCOTUS an acceptable trade off for Trumps supporters for “getting even “with the establishment??

He supporters consistantly say....”HE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS” or “HE CAN’T BE BOUGHT” or some other moronic slogan which means absolutely nothing to anyone except to those who can’t comprehend obvious evidence why they should not be supporting Trump.

[Lurker]

“You seem to think it necessary to completely blow up the system.... tear it apart.... and render it a quivering mass completely ineffectual”

You DO get it!

What replaced the Whig Party?

L

[dead]

Trump is whatever people want him to be. They want small government, suddenly and magically Trump is small government. Or pro-life. Or conservative.

He's going to carry the black vote, win 50 states, eliminate the Dept. of Education and the EPA, shrink government, get government back to work fixing things, win the woman vote, defeat and befriend Putin, fix the middle east, get rid of Kim Un. Appoint his sister and other conservatives to the SC. Lower taxes for me. Raise taxes for the others. Free healthcare.

Whatever, he can and will do everything. He's that awesome.