Donald Trump Sounds Like a Drug-Addled Rock Star

National Review Online ^ | August 25, 2014 | CHARLES C. W. COOKE

[Hojczyk]

Before his bombastic concert-in-the-park performance in Mobile, Donald Trump had come across chiefly as an amusing amateur whose total lack of basic political knowledge and essential reasoning ability had rendered him unwilling to do interviews that he could not phone in from the confines of his office.

In Alabama, he broke out, transforming himself in the process into something else altogether. One part Alan Ginsberg, one part Jim Morrison, and one part Roderick Spode, Trump strode onto the Southern stage as might a troubled rock star. This, his insolent upper lip told the camera, was show time.

All of which is to say that Donald Trump has matured in precisely the wrong direction, having moved from bumbling dilettante to Dunning-Kruger poster-boy in a single leap. Politics in a free republic consists of modesty, of compromise, and of dull perseverance. It is, by its very nature, the precise opposite of rock and roll. Self-described “conservatives” have historically prided themselves on their aversion to our gaudy celebrity culture and their disgust at the conflation of reality TV and the quotidian workings of the government.

They should not abandon this virtuous instinct just because a rich and famous entertainer has donned an oversized hat and pandered to their prejudices for a summer. Not all stars that fall on Alabama should be given access to the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Let us leave Donald Trump to his trip.

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

So much... concern. So glad to know they care. Trump's "outrageousness" is deliberate. He can turn it off whenever he wants. Right now there's no need to.

[vette6387]

Drop this a$$hole a line. There’s a “comment box” at the bottom of the NR article. I just did!

[mass55th]

"Donald Trump Sounds Like a Drug-Addled Rock Star"

How about the drug-addled jerk who plays President?

[DoodleDawg]

Donald Trump Sounds Like a Drug-Addled Rock Star

I think that is an unfair and insulting comparison. But if nothing else, a President Trump State-of-the-Union address would likely be very entertaining.

[vmivol00]

That’s ok....NR sounds like a has been magazine that has gone full RINO now.

[Leep]

Charles C.W. Cooke

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Donald's press conferences are magnificent.

His speeches are the exact opposite. He's meandering and barely coherent. He should work from an outline, at least, even if he doesn't want to use a teleprompter.

[Kozy]

Cooke is a hack. He hasn't said anything of importance in this millennium. Stay in the 90’s you has been or never was.

[JEDI4S]

snorkel...snorkel....

[60Gunner]

Mister Cooke is proving himself to be an in-the-bag GOPe deeeyooooosh nozzle.

[Dr. Thorne]

National Review has received their marching orders from their globalist masters: ATTACK TRUMP!

[Psalm 144]

“One part Alan Ginsberg, one part Jim Morrison, and one part Roderick Spode, Trump strode onto the Southern stage as might a troubled rock star. This, his insolent upper lip told the camera, was show time.”

Charles C. W. Cooke writes like failed stream of consciousness blogger suffering delirium tremens and piles, tortured at both ends and gassy in the middle.

[mulligan]

Maybe Charles, but you write like one such person.

[mojito]

The pajama boys at Cuckservative, Inc. flagship National Review have become utterly unhinged as they flail at the Donald. I find it one of the more amusing aspects of the Trump campaign.

[pierrem15]

The RINO lovers at NR aren’t happy with Trump, or anyone who rocks the PC boat too much— look at who has been sacked from NR— Coulter, Steyn, etc.

[pierrem15]

And just how is that working out for us?

BTT. No Kidding.

[Albion Wilde]

Politics in a free republic consists of modesty, of compromise, and of dull perseverance. It is, by its very nature, the precise opposite of rock and roll. Self-described “conservatives” have historically prided themselves on their aversion to our gaudy celebrity culture and their disgust at the conflation of reality TV and the quotidian workings of the government.

"Dear me. He's simply not of our noble class, is he."

[stratboy]

No he does not. Makes you wonder if he tacitly approves of BO and Hillary’s doings? I only hear him going on about Trump. Same with all the other GOPe perpetual losers.

[Little Ray]

I think they are running out of cards.

[gogeo]

Many no longer buy into “The World According to RINO.”