And that's exactly why Trump is succeeding.
Please remove from the list.
I no longer wish to hear from a once brilliant mind at the nadir of life.
Choices, Persona, and Policy.
A commanding persona is an absolute requirement for the R.’s, because much of the establishment media’s focus, during elections, is to take them out.
It would be nice if policy was the only determining factor in our selection in this election, but that is just fantasy. Our choice must take into account both policy and persona.
Leadership is displayed through a candidates persona or personality as well as policy. Trump’s policy may not be pure, but he is the only R. candidate who commands a room and terrifies the press(why they have worked so hard to take him down). Reagan is the only other R. candidate I remember with this ability, though a different style.
Remember Romney, spending half his time apologizing for being wealthy. Compare that to Trump, who during his very first press conference announcing his candidacy stated, yeah I’m not just wealthy I’m a billionaire. Seems like a trivial thing, but Trump demonstrated confidence and leadership, Romney, something less. Our other candidates dance around issues like immigration, playing the nuance game with us, while Trump simply states, we are going to build a wall. And lets the cards fall where they may. Leadership and confidence on display.
“Will this November’s presidential election come down to a choice between a felon and a pied piper?”
I reject the premise.
Even though at least the above is a choice.
I sense panic.
Facts:
1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.
2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.
4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?
5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.
Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.
As much as I respect you, i have to disagree, Zero didnt turn the Rep Cong into lame ducks... they did that all by themselves... I cant think of a SINGLE person that did anything meaningful to stop them.
Perhaps so ... but Dr. Sowell (and the others recently published in "National Review") would do well to reflect publicly on why, despite his brilliant mind and impeccable conservative bona fides, his opinions on Donald Trump and the upcoming elections are in conflict with the opinions of millions of thoughtful conservatives.
Thanks for the ping Jaz.