Posted on 07/27/2015 9:58:22 AM PDT by Lakeshark
“In the land of the blind,” so goes the saying, “the one-eyed man is king.” Donald Trump leapt atop other contenders for the Republican presidential nomination when he acted on the primordial fact in American public life today, from which most of the others hide their eyes, namely: most Americans distrust, fear, are sick and tired of, the elected, appointed, and bureaucratic officials who rule over us, as well as their cronies in the corporate, media, and academic world. Trump’s attraction lies less in his words’ grace or even precision than in the extent to which Americans are searching for someone, anyone, to lead against this ruling class, that is making America less prosperous, less free, and more dangerous.
Trump’s rise reminds this class’s members that they sit atop a rumbling volcano of rejection. **snip**
Republicans brahmins have the greater reason to fear. Whereas some three fifths of Democratic voters approve the conduct of their officials, only about one fifth of Republican voters approve what theirs do. If Americans in general are primed for revolt, Republican (and independent) voters fairly thirst for it. **snip**
The point here is simple: our ruling class has succeeded in ruling not by reason or persuasion, never mind integrity, but by occupying society’s commanding heights, by imposing itself and its ever-changing appetites on the rest of us. It has coopted or intimidated potential opponents by denying the legitimacy of opposition. Donald Trump, haplessness and clownishness notwithstanding, has shown how easily this regime may be threatened just by refusing to be intimidated.
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The problem is we the voters are the ruling class, not the elected.
Doesn't help his case.
Okay, he read it. I’m surprised.
Just turned him on, he just commented on it.
Trump is clownish.
How would his elections then be funded?
It's one thing to pick up $50-100 mil for a contested Senate run.
But how does one acquire one to 1.5 $BILLION$ for a POTUS run?
Remember when the Florida GOP changed the rules so Newt couldn’t’t get the nomination?
This may be what Trump is referring to when he mentioned GOP. being fair
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