The Donald and the Demagogues (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal ^ | Aug. 31, 2015 | By Bret Stephens

[dennisw]

Trump is America’s answer to Hugo Chávez.

If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, you’re appalling.

If you have reached physical maturity and still chuckle at Mr. Trump’s pubescent jokes about Rosie O’Donnell or Heidi Klum, you will never reach mental maturity. If you watched Mr. Trump mock fellow candidate Lindsey Graham’s low poll numbers and didn’t cringe at the lack of class, you are incapable of class. If you think we need to build new airports in Queens the way they build them in Qatar, you should be sent to join the millions of forced laborers who do construction in the Persian Gulf. It would serve you right.

Since Mr. Trump joined the GOP presidential field and leaped to the top of the polls, several views have been offered to explain his popularity. He conveys a can-do image. He is the bluntest of the candidates in addressing public fears of cultural and economic dislocation. He toes no line, serves no PAC, abides no ideology, is beholden to no man. He addresses the broad disgust of everyday Americans with their failed political establishment.

And so forth and so on—a parade of semi-sophisticated theories that act as bathroom deodorizer to mask the stench of this candidacy. Mr. Trump is a loudmouth vulgarian appealing to quieter vulgarians. These vulgarians comprise a significant percentage of the GOP base. The leader isn’t the problem. The people are. It takes the demos to make the demagogue.

It says that we may soon have a conservative movement in which the American creed of “give us your tired, your poor” could yield to the Trumpian creed that America must not become a “dumping ground” to poor immigrants from Latin America, as if these millions of hardworking and God-fearing people are a specimen of garbage.

[dennisw]

"You know what Mr. Stephens? F*CK YOU!"

This effete NYC snob was trolling for reactions and he got them. I am angry as you at his language. He can drop dead!!

[dennisw]

Or they marry into money. As in they have no mortgage to make each month because wife’s parents bought them a very nice house in a neighborhood they could never afford. A very white neighborhood of course so their coddled children don’t get stomped to bits at school by rambunctious minorities

Maybe parents pay the property taxes each year.

[Colorado Buckeye]

Nice find Will88. Let me reiterate; as written by Mr. Bret Stephens:

It says that a movement that is supposed to believe in economic freedom doesn't believe in the essence of economic freedom: to wit, the free movement of goods, services, capital and labor.

Here we have a hard and crystal clear exposition of just what the Globalists want, the effective elimination of borders between nation states.

After all, when we have "the free movement of goods, services, capital and labor" across a border, then, for most practical purposes, the border ceases to exist; it ceases to have purpose or meaning.