Smart is as smart does. Trump does smart better than almost everyone. He is not an intellectual. He is a street fighter.
The only serious concern is his ethics. He is in a high profile, legally nuanced business where traps are set and sprung on the unwary every day. He survives (legal) attacks and achieves stupendous results.
Trump’s occasional holdings bankruptcy is SOP for business, any business. It merely reorganizes debt.
I get that he is firmly committed to the free enterprise system. That, alone, is good enough to be taken seriously.
He now claims to be pro-life. I accept that. Lots of people have become pro-life who were pro-abortion. It shows character and an ability to question one’s values.
His views on drugs, pornography, education, marriage, and all of the other cultural icons we are fighting about are, perhaps, less relevant. Certainly I do not want another Obama/Clinton in the WH with their jaundiced, unethical, tear society down chicanery.
We have time. The winnowing has not yet begun. So far Trump satisfies the visceral needs of a society that has been spurned and eviscerated by opportunistic media and politicians. I love that he puts the media in its place. So does Cruz. I love that he calls politicians liars. So does Cruz.
I pray we get what we need in leadership this time around, not what we deserve.
“Even for those who believe he is a jackass, he is inarguably authentic. Trump is supported by several million “McCrazies””
How can you have any pride as a journalist when you write this kind of screed
The thing I like about Trump is he isn’t a pandering apologizing pu$$y politician who seems more concerned with kowtowing to our enemies than with protecting and standing up for US!
And he banned the Des Moines Register...lol
Trump is authentic? Like P. T. Barnum was authentic? Gimme a break!
This is what I do not get.
At age 69, he's "authentic," but was he so authentic when he was supporting Hillary at age 62, saying how wonderful she was, or when boosting Clinton crony crook Terry McAuliffe and extreme leftist Rahm Emanuel less than 4 years ago?
How did that metamorphosis happen? Was he a BSer then? ...Or now? How does an inauthentic man suddenly become authentic? If he's "authentic" then I would like to hear more of his Damascus Road story.
Well, I don't like guys that love getting big money deals more than they love America.
The left heartily approves of Caitlyn having the “courage” to be “her real self” after years of obfuscating her cross-dressing drives; but Trump is not allowed to have evolved on pro-life or any other issue.