Category Archives: Republicans

GOPers Want A Get-Out-Of-Jail Card From Trump

Democrats, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, IMMIGRATION, Republicans, Russia

REPUBLICANS WANT A GET-OUT-OF-JAIL CARD FROM TRUMP. I analyze this aspect of the Trump candidacy in my book, The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed.

The Republican establishment is as culpable as the Democrats in the state of this disunion. Their guilt as co-conspirators, Republicans must conceal from gullible voters. So the Republicans are vested in leveraging their power against Donald Trump with the goal of, first, deflecting from their crimes, and, second, focusing the attack dog, The Donald, on Hillary Clinton so that they, regimist Republicans, may retain their reputations and political perches.

To this end, Republicans and their supporters in media are making energetic use of the idiom of unity.

The people are being fooled. And Donald Trump is giving Republican establishmentarians their get-out-of-jail card.

Trump is caving on all but war with Russia. Small mercies.

MAD Media In Throes Of Death, We Hope

Donald Trump, Journalism, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media, Republicans

On a tip from their Republican friends, CNN liberals have been running away with speculations that Donald Trump will quit, drop out of the race. CNN’s man with a chalkboard pointer was scouring the Banana Republican’s rule book for a “rule” to invoke to void the people’s choice. In “The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed,” I describe this as “wish-fulfillment,” and deconstruct the dynamics of this ongoing media frothy with predictive precision:

The … sprawling political apparatus that makes up the D.C. Comitatus [is] now writhing like a fire breathing mythical monster in the throes of death.—ilana

How Weak Is Mike Pence! How Wrong is He For Trump VP!

Donald Trump, Military, Republicans

Mike Pence is so weak, so stylistically establishment. Chris Christie may be establishment neoconservative to the marrow, but in temperament; he offers fireworks and is quick on his big feet. I can just imagine how Christie would have reacted to this attack dog of a woman:

… at a town hall in this Nevada town on Monday night, the Republican vice presidential nominee got the question — from a mother of an active Air Force staff sergeant:

‘Time and time again Trump has disrespected our nation’s armed forces and veterans — and his disrespect for Mr. Khan and his family is just an example of that,’ Catherine Byrne, the mother of Raymond Harmon, who is currently deployed in the Persian Gulf, said to Pence. ‘Will there ever be a point in time when you’re able to look Trump in the eye and tell him ‘Enough is enough?’ You have a son in the military. How do you tolerate his disrespect?’ …

… Mike Pence had only released a text statement in the more than 48 hours since Donald Trump questioned the mother and father of fallen U.S. solider Humayun Khan. He had avoided cameras and questions on Monday during his travels to Nevada after a weekend at home in Indianapolis.

The woman, sainted because she has a son in the military, was whining about Muslim Brotherhood devote and Hillary Clinton attack dog Khizr Khan :

Pence “went on to claim that Trump supports veterans ‘like no other leader in my lifetime.'”

“The only other thing I would say to you is having spent time with our nominee, I have never been around someone more devoted to the armed forces of this country, more devoted to the families of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marine and coast guard and no one more devoted to the veterans in this country,” Pence said without any real evidence for such hyperbole. “Donald trump supports our soldiers and supporters our veterans like no other leader in my lifetime.”

That’s it?! How feeble!

Trump is unorthodox. Let him fire Pence and start afresh.

Beef up on Mike Pence:

“The Pence Omen: Pro Wars, Pro Islam, Not-So-Pro-Private Property.”
“Get Off Your Knees, Gov. Pence! (You’re Not In A Gay Bathhouse).”

Easy Street For Bernie; For Trump It’s A Horribly Hard Row To Hoe

Democrats, Donald Trump, Intellectualism, Intelligence, Paleolibertarianism, Republicans

The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed must be quite a good read. I’ve caught my husband red-handed with a copy and a big grin on his face (unusual—the grin, I mean—since he works for Microsoft).

And, of course, Jack Kerwick is mining The Donald’s Creative Destruction. Most reviewers seek confirmation of their worldview in a work. If they find an unknown quantity; the ego gets in the way of dealing. Kerwick is unusual in his intellectual curiosity, never afraid to joust with ideas, never threatened by them.

The dangers of being too open about Trump in conservative circles don’t deter him either. (Actually, some conservative websites are proving very competitive in the marketplace of ideas—their young millennial editors adapting to the new political landscape and embracing renegades far quicker than some libertarian sites. Kudos.)

In any case, in his latest TownHall column, Kerwick uses The Trump Revolution to drive home an important point I’ve not heard made before: “Bernie Sanders Is No Donald Trump.” To listen to the moron media, you’d think otherwise.

… For obvious reasons, this libertarian defense of the Trump process—the first of its kind—couldn’t be timelier. There is, however, another reason as to why it’s so critically important to read The Trump Revolution.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Bernie Sanders is not the Democrats’ counterpart to Trump. This is among the many points that Mercer makes in her fine work. Consider the following:

The difference, though, is that Trump has exposed—and defeated—this corruption.

Sanders, in glaring contrast, has acquiesced in it, for he is now urging his supporters—who, by the sounds of it, are much more principled than he—into voting for Hillary Clinton.

Secondly, Sanders hardly accomplished what Trump has accomplished—and what Trump continues to accomplish. Sanders won 22 states in his contest against Clinton. But it was only a two person race, he had been a politician in the Senate for nearly a quarter of a century, had virtually nothing but good press, and his rallies weren’t repeatedly disrupted by violent thugs.

Trump, on the other hand, a business mogul and “reality TV star,” came out of nowhere. Derided and marginalized by “the experts,” this “clown” and “buffoon,” a million-to-one-shot underdog, slayed 16 of the GOP’s best and brightest, including some of its most popular senators and governors. These were the party’s rock stars—and Trump relegated them to the ranks of the Has Beens one after the other. …

Kerwick counts 7 major differences between what the brave-heart Trump has endured—Trump still has a horribly hard row to hoe ahead—as compared to Sanders’s easy street, and ends the column thus:

Bernie Sanders has had nothing like the bumpy road that Trump has had to travel. Ilana Mercer compares the two in her own inimical way: Sanders is “a mouse of a man” compared to the “masculine force at full tilt” that is Trump.