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About 15 years ago, I said something nasty on CNN about Donald Trump’s hair. I can’t now remember the context, assuming there was one. In any case, Trump saw it and left a message the next day.

“It’s true you have better hair than I do,” Trump said matter-of-factly. “But I get more pussy than you do.” Click.

At the time, I’d never met Trump and I remember feeling amused but also surprised he’d say something like that. Now the pattern seems entirely familiar. The message had all the hallmarks of a Trump attack: shocking, vulgar and indisputably true.

Not everyone finds it funny. On my street in Northwest Washington, D.C., there’s never been anyone as unpopular as Trump. The Democrats assume he’s a bigot, pandering to the morons out there in the great dark space between Georgetown and Brentwood. The Republicans (those relatively few who live here) fully agree with that assessment, and they hate him even more. They sense Trump is a threat to them personally, to their legitimacy and their livelihoods. Idi Amin would get a warmer reception in our dog park.

I understand it of course. And, except in those moments when the self-righteous silliness of rich people overwhelms me and I feel like moving to Maine, I can see their points, some of them anyway. Trump might not be my first choice for president. I’m not even convinced he really wants the job. He’s smart enough to know it would be tough for him to govern.

But just because Trump is an imperfect candidate doesn’t mean his candidacy can’t be instructive. Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully. Here’s some of what they might learn:

 
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  1. Trump tells some truths about which most politicians lie. But how can you fail to register how much he lies about everything else? And that he refuses to engage in actual debate (another form of dishonesty).

  2. sund says:

    My God, I agree with Tucker Carlson about something. And I agree with almost all of it! How pathetic is the American political establishment when all someone needs to do to beat them is tell the truth and not be a pussy when other people try to play the political-correctness card? The whole establishment is up for grabs!

  3. Rehmat says:

    The ADL, the National Jewish Democratic Council and several other Jewish groups agree with you. They have realized recently that Sen. Ted Cruz, the “Defender of Israel” award winner would be more dangerous to Jews and Israel than Donald Trump.

    They came to the above conclusion after evangelic pastor Mike Bickle endorsed GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz in January 2016. The Jewish Lobby has accused Mike Bickle of saying that Adolf Hitler was a ‘divine hunter’ sent by God to kill Jews. It’s also claimed that the pastor believe that Jews must convert to Christianity or hunted down for extermination. Watch Bickle’s prophecy below.

    https://rehmat1.com/2016/02/24/lobby-ted-cruzs-pastor-admires-hitler/

  4. …The Democrats assume he’s a bigot, pandering to the morons out there in the great dark space between Georgetown and Brentwood.

    What a great phrase!

    Brentwood got a little better to live in after that one colored guy moved to rural Lovelock, Nevada.

    • Replies: @Clyde
  5. The benighted denizens of the “great dark place” have been screaming this at the GOP for 25 years, and they just called us bigots.

  6. The benighted denizens of the “great dark place” have been screaming this at the GOP for 25 years, and they just called us bigots.

    Because if they didn’t, the Party of the People would call them bigots. You can’t have that, can you.

  7. A very good article by Carlson. I was pleasantly surprised to see him rhetorically ask how the Bush Jr years went for the Christians of Iraq; the fate of Christians in that part of the world is rarely mentioned in Carlson’s world.

  8. … the fate of Christians in that part of the world is rarely mentioned in Carlson’s world.

    Or anyone else’s, for that matter.

    • Replies: @Rehmat
  9. manton says:

    Quite a good piece but isn’t this like two months old? Not that that matters, I guess.

  10. Tucker, Ed Koch got more pussy than you.

  11. anonymous • Disclaimer says:

    teach Republicans in Washington a lot

    But Republican officials in Washington don’t want to learn how to get pussy: They already know that foot tapping in public restrooms gets them what they want.

    • Replies: @iffen
  12. GeorginaW says:

    Consider the conservative nonprofit establishment, which seems to employ most right-of-center adults in Washington. Over the past 40 years, how much donated money have all those think tanks and foundations consumed? Billions, certainly…… Has America become more conservative over that same period? Come on. Most of that cash went to self-perpetuation: Salaries, bonuses, retirement funds, medical, dental, lunches, car services, leases on high-end office space, retreats in Mexico, more fundraising.

    Actually, the purpose of many of those conservative nonprofits was not to advance conservatism but to advance Israel’s interests in the US (in the form of a disastrous foreign policy). And on that matter they have succeeded exceedingly well. Conservatism via think tanks and some news organizations including The Daily Caller was taken over by neoconservatives who used conservatism to shield their real efforts to support Israel. The neoconservatives also used these institutions to promote mass immigration (when it comes to the US and Europe but not Israel), bad trade policies and anything else that undermines the safety and security of the US and middle/working class Americans.

    This is not news to anyone who has been paying attention. It has been written about extensively by many on the right (including Paul Gottfried and Pat Buchanan). It is just interesting that Tucker Carlson still refuses to acknowledge this.

    Trump’s rise is, in effect, a result of the rise of neoconservatism.

  13. iffen says:
    @anonymous

    foot tapping in public restrooms gets them what they want

    This is an odd stance.

    • Replies: @dc.sunsets
    , @anonymous
  14. Democracy and Equality.

    The twin dogmas of this odd theocracy in which we live.

    White folks are nothing if not devoted congregants in the theocracy. Like David Ruenzel, most of them would rather encounter a violent death than blaspheme in the cathedral.

    This theocracy is a cult. Jim Jones was oh, so close to its reality. Self-destruction has never, ever been popular for this long without a full dose of cyanide-laced KoolAid.

  15. @iffen

    This is an odd stance.

    Not if you’re the easily blackmailed kind of disgusting pervert the GOP (and dems) recruit to run for office. Only those with disgusting personal peccadilloes to hide need apply.

  16. Rehmat says:
    @Reg Cæsar

    Sen. Ted Cruz did – even though he boasts Cuban family roots.

    “Christians have no greater ally than Israel. Tonight, we are all united in defense of Christians. Tonight, we are all united in defense of Jews,” Ted Cruz said is speech at the Middle East’s Christian conference in Washington DC. September 2014.

    However, he got booed by the Christian audience including Lebanon’s ambassador in Washington, Antoine Chedid, when he started ranting Israeli hasbara lies about Jewish love for the Christians.

    https://rehmat1.com/2014/09/12/ted-cruz-christians-must-support-israel/

  17. anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @iffen

    an odd stance

    And widely known to boot.

  18. The Republican establishment didn’t fail as nancy-boy claims “He Exists Because You Failed”.
    They succeeded by lying through their corrupt teeth.
    They have enriched themselves and their oligarch owners unimaginably through the deliberate looting of the productive classes.’
    This was not a failure, it was the plan.

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