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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.