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Trump is starting to pile up endorsements from the smarter set of Republicans. The latest is from Kris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, who is a legal eagle of immigration restriction.
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Hmmm… so this isn’t just populism.
There were many in the system who wanted to do something but got no leadership or encouragement from the GOP stab.
KANSAS SECRETARY OF STATE ENDORSES TRUMP
The GOP establishment is desperate! After years of Neocon domination in the conservative prestige media and Washington, a billionaire reality TV actor is destroying all that.
Will the Deep State kill Trump to prevent this?
NASCAR CEO Brian France personally endorsed El Trumpo during a campaign rally at Valdosta State University.
I don’t have very high hopes for Trump. Aside from the temperament issue, I suspect he’s the sort of guy who would sell out to make a “deal” of some sort. I don’t think he has very strong ideological convictions of any sort, which makes it easy for him to abandon whatever positions he currently espouses.
On the other hand, I get the impression he kind of likes the USA, while Hillary and Obama regard it as something to be saddled and bridled.
That is the bad news.
The good news is that the defective Trump has shifted the Overton window dramatically - far more so than any other contender would have, or could have, done so. And that is the first good news in a very long time.Replies: @Prof. Woland
I think on deporting all of the existing illegal immigrants, Trump will probably cave, because he doesn't want 24 hour coverage of crying families on the news for his entire presidency. But I think Trump will have no choice but to build the wall, because it's his signature issue that gets the most applause from his supporters.
Congress has already approved 700 miles of wall/fence. It just hasn't been built because of lack of funding and opposition by private landholders on the border. It's a *good thing* that Trump isn't a "true conservative" here, because he has zero issue with using eminent domain or jacking up government spending to finish it.Replies: @Stephen R. Diamond
While he does not seem to hold a set of ideological principles, I agree that he shares a basic loyalty to America. He views the American people as an in-group and sees that they are being ripped off. As a billionare businessman he thinks he can get them a better deal. In these dark times, I view this attitude as a far superior qualification for being President then an existing politician with a set of policy proposals. Why vote for a politician who you agree with on most of the "issues" when many of those issues aren't even relevant to the role of the presidency, and in any event, we know they will never deliver on the issues that do matter?
I do share some fear of Trump as President due to his uninhibited nature, but I actually think his incentives are mostly aligned with the good of the American public and thus that he will (mostly) not abuse power. All Presidents do to some degree. But Trump has a brand and a $4 billion net worth to maintain. He is 70 years old and (if he is elected) this will be his final act. With his legacy on the line, and his fortune already made, he has no incentive to sell out and pursue policies that make him look like a traitor. He has already made his fortune and has no reason to betray the people by currying favor with special interests while in office. Also, Trump is not an ideologue. I worry about concentrated power in the hands of an ideologue more than in the hands of a pragmatist.
By contrast, Rubio's entire life trajectory hinges on the events of the next few months. He is being bankrolled by billionaires and the GOP establishment. If he wins, he becomes President for 4-8 years, followed by a lifetime of book sales and speaking fees. His net worth will be much greater. If he loses he'll just go back to having personal debt problems. His incentives are terrible - he has every reason to sell out and act in the interests of the establishment and not the American public. Note that Rubio is not returning to the Senate - it is all or nothing for him at this point.Replies: @Clyde, @Clyde
If someone votes for a politician because of promises, or even voting records (really??), well, than the voter deserves the kind of politician they vote for. If you vote for Trump you are voting for Trump’s judgment and his ability to get things done.
“Louis Farrakhan Joins List Of Extremists Praising Donald Trump”
http://blog.adl.org/anti-semitism/louis-farrakhan-joins-list-of-extremists-praising-donald-trump
I wonder how many times he'll be asked to denounce him? I wonder if he could pick up some black votes by refusing to denounce him.
On the other hand, I get the impression he kind of likes the USA, while Hillary and Obama regard it as something to be saddled and bridled.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @MarkinLA, @Das, @Dave Pinsen, @Cicatrizatic, @Antonymous
Even in the best case he has to neuter the media (Marxists almost to a person) the Congress (self-serving jackanapes, self-promoting pettifoggers and unashamed whores) and the Black-robed judicial blackguards that transcend the democratic discipline of answering to the citizenry.
That is the bad news.
The good news is that the defective Trump has shifted the Overton window dramatically – far more so than any other contender would have, or could have, done so. And that is the first good news in a very long time.
On the other hand, I get the impression he kind of likes the USA, while Hillary and Obama regard it as something to be saddled and bridled.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @MarkinLA, @Das, @Dave Pinsen, @Cicatrizatic, @Antonymous
I wish I could trust Cruz and I wish he could beat Hillary – both of these I doubt so it has to be Trump.
I don’t have very high hopes for Trump. Aside from the temperament issue, I suspect he’s the sort of guy who would sell out to make a “deal” of some sort.
If not Trump, then which other candidate is good for America? A lot of people can’t justify the other candidates so they rationally default to Trump.
Is Trump playing us for fools or is there some conviction in the man? Impossible to tell and this applies to every politician, which defaults to you not being worse compared to throwing your support to a candidate who you know beforehand is going to screw us over.
Will Trump be influenced by his advisers and endorsers or will be backstab them and be a lone eagle? Parsimony suggests that those around Trump will have influence on Trump. The early movers on the endorsement front are Christie, Sessions and Kobach. Christie doesn’t tell us anything about immigration issues but the latter two surely do. Adding to that Frum has repeatedly noted the outsized influence that Ann Coulter’s book has had on Trump and his campaign. Sessions was instrumental in drafting Trump’s immigration policy and Sessions’ key aide has signed on with Trump as a senior advisor.
Kobach, it now turns out, has counseled Trump on how to use the Patriot Act to get Mexico to pay for the wall. I always wondered where that line of attack came from and now we have some clues.
Recall earlier arguments about how Establishment Republicans felt that they could work with Trump by, essentially, becoming indispensable advisers and tutors to him, well this principle works in the other direction too, if Trump is aligning with the, for lack of a better descriptor, anti-establishment conservatives and border/deportation hawks, then it will be these people who help shape and discipline Trump’s positions. Having Sessions and Kobach already on the inside and out early as endorsers is a very reassuring turn of events which lessens the probability of Trump putting on a charade.
One last point to address the con-man concern. People lie to themselves, a lot and many come to believe their own lies. If Trump is pulling some long con here, I would argue that he’s walking a dangerous road where he is very likely to lose sight on his own true beliefs on immigration, borders, deportation when he sees, everyday, the mass enthusiasm for his stated positions. Maybe the people are right and the liberal, be soft, pro-legalization, viewpoint is wrong? What would sustain a true belief, buried under a long-con, in an environment where the long-con position is developing this ever-increasing and massive level of support? This may have started as a “big-ask” negotiating ploy but will it stay that way considering the response it’s getting in public? Open question.
A not so off topic editorial by the NY Times bemoaning the decline of summer jobs for young people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/opinion/sunday/the-sad-demise-of-the-summer-job.html?_r=2
What ever could have happened to the American tradition of hiring teens for low skilled summer work? Does not the US economy need low skilled workers? Whoever could it be, that is filling those jobs?
Any ideas?
I started working part-time when I was 13, not because I had to but because I wanted to be able to buy my own clothes without my mother picking out all my stuff. From that age on through college, I worked in various summer jobs every year. I'm just glad that most of that happened before the Immigration Act of 1965 came along because I didn't have to compete with immigrants. All the jobs paid more than the minimum wage. I guess all those employers were more generous back then.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Boomstick
“…I don’t think he has very strong ideological convictions of any sort…”
Never fall in love with a politician. Having said that, maybe one of the Western World’s biggest problems is this need for ideology. The heck with ideology, weak or strong. Chuck the ideology. The whole encyclopedia set. Just solve the problems in front of your face as they come. Try not to lose. Play defense. Conserve what you’re able to defend. Fight for what you should. Pay attention and use common sense. You’ll be busy enough without worrying about ideology.
Ideology is vastly overrated. I would prefer a politician with sound instincts to one with sound ideology.
So the controllers changed the quota from weight to number of chandeliers. Then the factory manufactured tiny little chandeliers that looked stupid.
For fifty years Russia, China, East Germany constantly tried to solve their economic problems, but nothing lifted them out of poverty. Their ideology, central planning, doomed all efforts to solve problems as they appeared. They had to allow prices to be set by a market, consumer freedom to buy or not buy what they wished, unsuccessful producers to fail, etc. They had to take on the whole package, more or less. I'd call that a major move towards a free market ideology from a centrally planned market ideology.
What could the central planners in Russia under communism have done to fix their problems? A quota specified in thousands of pages just for chandeliers? A country with freedom of the press is going to have a more productive intellectual discussion than a country with censorship, no matter how wise the censors.
http://blog.adl.org/anti-semitism/louis-farrakhan-joins-list-of-extremists-praising-donald-trumpReplies: @anon, @Harry Baldwin, @tbraton
That is awesome.
I wonder how many times he’ll be asked to denounce him? I wonder if he could pick up some black votes by refusing to denounce him.
On the other hand, I get the impression he kind of likes the USA, while Hillary and Obama regard it as something to be saddled and bridled.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @MarkinLA, @Das, @Dave Pinsen, @Cicatrizatic, @Antonymous
Trump will *probably* screw the country. With other possible candidates, we’re nearly guaranteed to have some sort of massive expansion of immigration. So, Trump it is, with all his flaws.
I think on deporting all of the existing illegal immigrants, Trump will probably cave, because he doesn’t want 24 hour coverage of crying families on the news for his entire presidency. But I think Trump will have no choice but to build the wall, because it’s his signature issue that gets the most applause from his supporters.
Congress has already approved 700 miles of wall/fence. It just hasn’t been built because of lack of funding and opposition by private landholders on the border. It’s a *good thing* that Trump isn’t a “true conservative” here, because he has zero issue with using eminent domain or jacking up government spending to finish it.
My take is that when Trump promises Mexico will pay, he's warning you that he's a liar. Trump feels no sympathy for rubes.Replies: @Das, @Reg Cæsar
An imperfect Trump is immeasurably better than all the other alternatives. There is no question in my mind that he has an abiding and unapologetic love for the country in a way you don’t see expressed these days. You can see it from the Oprah video going back to 1986.
On the other hand, I get the impression he kind of likes the USA, while Hillary and Obama regard it as something to be saddled and bridled.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @MarkinLA, @Das, @Dave Pinsen, @Cicatrizatic, @Antonymous
Trump has been consistently skeptical of the free trade status quo since at least 1990, as you can see from his Playboy interview back then. I don’t think immigration came up then, but it wasn’t as salient an issue back in 1990. It had been “solved” 4 years earlier, and I don’t remember thinking much about it back then myself.
On immigration, Trump seems to have gotten religion around 2013, and then gotten more religion after seeing Ann Coulter on Jorge Ramos last year and asking her for an advance copy of her book.
Also, on immigration, his policy seems the most thought-out, probably due to assistance from Sessions. As I mentioned on LOTB’s blog recently, I wish Trump got connected with some intellectuals who could give him similar help on trade (such as these guys: http://www.idealtaxes.com/post3768.shtml )
Back in September I was for Trump. But at this point he’s made 500 idiotic comments.
I’m sick of Trump=Genius meme. It’s nonsense. His Teflon is due to many years on television. Celebrity rules!
Trump’s response to Rubio has been weak. Maybe Trump is fatigued from the long campaign because he’s making more grammatical errors in his remarks and it’s beginning to really get on my nerves.
Trump doesn’t care about freedom. Intellectually he is a moronic step down from Reagan. Charismatically he’s equal to Reagan.
I don't agree. Never mistake fluency and eloquence in speech for intelligence or capacity for leadership (Exhibit A: Obama). I believe Trump has the potential to be a great President. He is the anti-Obama and projects decisiveness and power and an optimism about the country. Every time we elect a leader we can never be 100% certain how it will turn out.
http://blog.adl.org/anti-semitism/louis-farrakhan-joins-list-of-extremists-praising-donald-trumpReplies: @anon, @Harry Baldwin, @tbraton
Doesn’t this cancel out the David Duke endorsement?
Jeff Sessions and Kris Kobach are huge endorsements especially if you are single issue voter, and that issue is immigration. If you are such a voter and have been leaning to Cruz, or anyone else for that matter, these two endorsements should seal the deal for Trump.
On the other hand, I get the impression he kind of likes the USA, while Hillary and Obama regard it as something to be saddled and bridled.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @MarkinLA, @Das, @Dave Pinsen, @Cicatrizatic, @Antonymous
Trump’s methodology is to stake out extreme positions early, then negotiate a compromise toward the middle. I’m sure he will apply this basic methodology, which he has obviously used his entire life as a businessman, to the presidency. So I would expect him to be a very centrist President. I think he’ll build a wall, figure out a way to get Mexico to contribute to some of it, and then he’ll negotiate a set of compromise policies regarding deportation and amnesty. He obviously won’t implement his entire immigration policy platform but it will be a hell of a lot better than anything Clinton or Rubio would do.
While he does not seem to hold a set of ideological principles, I agree that he shares a basic loyalty to America. He views the American people as an in-group and sees that they are being ripped off. As a billionare businessman he thinks he can get them a better deal. In these dark times, I view this attitude as a far superior qualification for being President then an existing politician with a set of policy proposals. Why vote for a politician who you agree with on most of the “issues” when many of those issues aren’t even relevant to the role of the presidency, and in any event, we know they will never deliver on the issues that do matter?
I do share some fear of Trump as President due to his uninhibited nature, but I actually think his incentives are mostly aligned with the good of the American public and thus that he will (mostly) not abuse power. All Presidents do to some degree. But Trump has a brand and a $4 billion net worth to maintain. He is 70 years old and (if he is elected) this will be his final act. With his legacy on the line, and his fortune already made, he has no incentive to sell out and pursue policies that make him look like a traitor. He has already made his fortune and has no reason to betray the people by currying favor with special interests while in office. Also, Trump is not an ideologue. I worry about concentrated power in the hands of an ideologue more than in the hands of a pragmatist.
By contrast, Rubio’s entire life trajectory hinges on the events of the next few months. He is being bankrolled by billionaires and the GOP establishment. If he wins, he becomes President for 4-8 years, followed by a lifetime of book sales and speaking fees. His net worth will be much greater. If he loses he’ll just go back to having personal debt problems. His incentives are terrible – he has every reason to sell out and act in the interests of the establishment and not the American public. Note that Rubio is not returning to the Senate – it is all or nothing for him at this point.
News media are 24/7 over Trump kicking out Black Lives Matter hecklers at a rally, a Secret Service Agent tackling some SJW photographer who cursed the Agent out; and David Duke.
Desperation.
That is the bad news.
The good news is that the defective Trump has shifted the Overton window dramatically - far more so than any other contender would have, or could have, done so. And that is the first good news in a very long time.Replies: @Prof. Woland
It is as if the spell cast by the civil rights movement is wearing off. The right is confident and the left is becoming afraid. The encouraging thing is not just that the Donald is refusing to wilt and fighting back and leading but that his followers are not responding to the race baiting either. Win, lose, or draw, the left will have used up what little guilt / shame they have remaining and that nothing they say for the next 50 years will be taken seriously.
I think on deporting all of the existing illegal immigrants, Trump will probably cave, because he doesn't want 24 hour coverage of crying families on the news for his entire presidency. But I think Trump will have no choice but to build the wall, because it's his signature issue that gets the most applause from his supporters.
Congress has already approved 700 miles of wall/fence. It just hasn't been built because of lack of funding and opposition by private landholders on the border. It's a *good thing* that Trump isn't a "true conservative" here, because he has zero issue with using eminent domain or jacking up government spending to finish it.Replies: @Stephen R. Diamond
So (excuse my naivete), the part of this signature issue where Trump says Mexico pays – is that part bogus? If he doesn’t really plan to have Mexico pay, why are you convinced he will even build the thing? (To toss in another ignorant question, for anyone, how exactly is Mexico supposed to be responsible for our failures at border control?)
My take is that when Trump promises Mexico will pay, he’s warning you that he’s a liar. Trump feels no sympathy for rubes.
He doesn't actually think the president of Mexico is going to write him a check.
Our southern border mess is as much their responsibility as it is ours.
Good comments on this thread about the nature of Trump. There is a widespread feeling that he will deliver on trade and immigration. All else is up in the air.
My buzz was fully killed when he claimed to be audited by the IRS because “I’m a strong Christian.” Trump and Lewandowski must have had a big laugh over that one.
Trump and his crew are very, very, very, very cynical.
As opposed to all the other candidates, especially Ms. Hillary.
I'm a little surprised that there is little talk about Trump's foreign policy position, where he has given every indication that he is strongly opposed to our brainless foreign interventions and constant wars. (Think of his risky attack on Jeb!!! and his brother GWB at the SC debate a week before the SC primary, a pretty bold move imo.) That is one area where he doesn't need any help from Congress. It is the main reason why the neocons are so strongly opposed to his candidacy and threatening to bolt back to their old home in the Democratic Party. Immigration is important, but so is foreign policy.
“Trump is starting to pile up endorsements from the smarter set of Republicans.”
That won’t be nearly enough.
He’ll need the stupid ones too.
Never fall in love with a politician. Having said that, maybe one of the Western World's biggest problems is this need for ideology. The heck with ideology, weak or strong. Chuck the ideology. The whole encyclopedia set. Just solve the problems in front of your face as they come. Try not to lose. Play defense. Conserve what you're able to defend. Fight for what you should. Pay attention and use common sense. You'll be busy enough without worrying about ideology.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @scrivener3
“Having said that, maybe one of the Western World’s biggest problems is this need for ideology.”
Ideology is vastly overrated. I would prefer a politician with sound instincts to one with sound ideology.
Asking Mexico to pay for the wall seems like a win-win gambit. If Mexico refuses to pay any part of the cost, that’s an acknowledgement that it wants an open border and unenforceable US immigration laws. It would make it easier for Trump to justify a harder line on illegal immigration.
Trump’s plan B if he cant get Mexico to build a wall is to turn Putin’s comfort tiger, Masha, on the border crossers. At least it will be in my coloring book if we reach our Kickstarter goal.
http://kck.st/1p1ZMJA
My take is that when Trump promises Mexico will pay, he's warning you that he's a liar. Trump feels no sympathy for rubes.Replies: @Das, @Reg Cæsar
I think the Trump plan is actually to tax remittances sent to Mexico to pay for the wall.
He doesn’t actually think the president of Mexico is going to write him a check.
I'm sick of Trump=Genius meme. It's nonsense. His Teflon is due to many years on television. Celebrity rules!
Trump's response to Rubio has been weak. Maybe Trump is fatigued from the long campaign because he's making more grammatical errors in his remarks and it's beginning to really get on my nerves.
Trump doesn't care about freedom. Intellectually he is a moronic step down from Reagan. Charismatically he's equal to Reagan.Replies: @MG, @TangoMan
” Intellectually he is a moronic step down from Reagan.”
I don’t agree. Never mistake fluency and eloquence in speech for intelligence or capacity for leadership (Exhibit A: Obama). I believe Trump has the potential to be a great President. He is the anti-Obama and projects decisiveness and power and an optimism about the country. Every time we elect a leader we can never be 100% certain how it will turn out.
It could. I mean, Obama used to talk about bringing people together, but who else can say they got the KKK and Louis Farrakhan to agree on something?
I really think it’s long past time to abandon the ridiculous notions that Trump is pulling some kind of publicity stunt, or that he’s a stalking horse in some Clinton plot, or that he’s going to cave on what he says he will do.
The fact of the matter is that Trump is a new kind of leader, and we are new kind of people now. Nihil esse rem publicam, appelationem modo sine corpore ac specie. The Republic is gone now; the Age of the Caesars has begun.
Those who cannot understand this will never learn how to speak Trump. They belong inwardly to the old order, the one that is passing away. But those who do understand this also understand Trump implicitly; the things he says and does are no mystery to them, and the connection he has with them will never be broken.
American, a nation born in rebellion and regicide, is coming to know, however dimly and confusedly at first, just what it means to have a king again. The ideologues of the old republic (read: the Cuckservative Establishment) will balk and throw fits, but their old shibboleths are nothing but barren and threadbare formulae now, shortly to be entombed forever in books that nobody reads. It is the living image of the warrior king which now speaks to men’s hearts, which now calls forth loyalty, courage, and valor.
Trump did not accomplish this all on his own. Trump is America; Trump is us. He knows it himself, and this is what gives him his unshakable confidence. The spirit that animates all of us also flows through Trump. He is like Antaeus the giant, who could never be defeated as long as his body touched the earth. Deep down inside, all of us who belong to the future are desirous of this change. We want Trump to be exactly what he is—the destroyer of the establishment.
But it is much bigger than one man. It is…The Birth of a Nation.
I'm sick of Trump=Genius meme. It's nonsense. His Teflon is due to many years on television. Celebrity rules!
Trump's response to Rubio has been weak. Maybe Trump is fatigued from the long campaign because he's making more grammatical errors in his remarks and it's beginning to really get on my nerves.
Trump doesn't care about freedom. Intellectually he is a moronic step down from Reagan. Charismatically he's equal to Reagan.Replies: @MG, @TangoMan
Trump is no Gomer Pyle. He outwitted the entire brain trust of the Republican Establishment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss
Republican Congressman Tom Marino of Scranton endores DJT and says “Mr. Trump is right about the desperate need to address illegal immigration and fight to keep our country safe” and that Trump is “able to attract new voters from across the spectrum and that is exactly what our party and country needs.”
The Brain Trust of the Republican Establishment spent the last three decades supporting policies to undermine itself by letting in a new people to vote them out. Real S-M-R-T.
Kobach would make an excellent VP.
If Trump tries to placate the GOPe with someone like Kasach he has to risk getting Pim Fortyn’d, or impeached. But Kobach is just as solid on boarders as Trump. Actually, more so.
“Donald Trump’s speeches sound like a drunk on a bus explaining why his wife made a mistake when she left him.”
Hilarious opening line from an English cuck who’s been snapping at Trump’s ankles for the last few weeks. It’s like being savaged by a dead sheep, to use a famous English insult.
My buzz was fully killed when he claimed to be audited by the IRS because "I'm a strong Christian." Trump and Lewandowski must have had a big laugh over that one.
Trump and his crew are very, very, very, very cynical.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @tbraton
“Trump and his crew are very, very, very, very cynical.”
Cynical is actually a rather refreshing change from the unveiled hostility and contempt that most of the rest of the Republican party shows towards its voters.
This is the one i’ve been waiting for! KK for VP!
“By contrast, Rubio’s entire life trajectory hinges on the events of the next few months.”
Maybe that’s why he’s been popping bennies like tic-tacs.
How can we test the authenticity of Trump’s positions? One way is to see if there is ideological coherence when we compare stated position against advisers. We see this coherence on immigration. Now we see it in foreign affairs with respect to Russia and Iraq:
Trump doesn’t seem to be as much of a seat of the pants guy as it appears because as we learn more about his advisers we see people with well thought out positions which are running counter to current policy thinking and so these positions are marginalized, you know, just like National Review marginalizes contrary opinions by purging people who don’t stick close to the neocon line.
As they say: Personnel is policy
quit pretending to like trump
While he does not seem to hold a set of ideological principles, I agree that he shares a basic loyalty to America. He views the American people as an in-group and sees that they are being ripped off. As a billionare businessman he thinks he can get them a better deal. In these dark times, I view this attitude as a far superior qualification for being President then an existing politician with a set of policy proposals. Why vote for a politician who you agree with on most of the "issues" when many of those issues aren't even relevant to the role of the presidency, and in any event, we know they will never deliver on the issues that do matter?
I do share some fear of Trump as President due to his uninhibited nature, but I actually think his incentives are mostly aligned with the good of the American public and thus that he will (mostly) not abuse power. All Presidents do to some degree. But Trump has a brand and a $4 billion net worth to maintain. He is 70 years old and (if he is elected) this will be his final act. With his legacy on the line, and his fortune already made, he has no incentive to sell out and pursue policies that make him look like a traitor. He has already made his fortune and has no reason to betray the people by currying favor with special interests while in office. Also, Trump is not an ideologue. I worry about concentrated power in the hands of an ideologue more than in the hands of a pragmatist.
By contrast, Rubio's entire life trajectory hinges on the events of the next few months. He is being bankrolled by billionaires and the GOP establishment. If he wins, he becomes President for 4-8 years, followed by a lifetime of book sales and speaking fees. His net worth will be much greater. If he loses he'll just go back to having personal debt problems. His incentives are terrible - he has every reason to sell out and act in the interests of the establishment and not the American public. Note that Rubio is not returning to the Senate - it is all or nothing for him at this point.Replies: @Clyde, @Clyde
Good take on the psychology and incentives behind Trump at his age (69) and Marco Rubio at his much younger age of 44. Rubio has already declared he is not running for re-election Senate as a fallback. This means he wants to make the big, big bucks in DC as a lobbyist. His run for President means he will earn even more. All assuming that Trump knocks him out soon.
While he does not seem to hold a set of ideological principles, I agree that he shares a basic loyalty to America. He views the American people as an in-group and sees that they are being ripped off. As a billionare businessman he thinks he can get them a better deal. In these dark times, I view this attitude as a far superior qualification for being President then an existing politician with a set of policy proposals. Why vote for a politician who you agree with on most of the "issues" when many of those issues aren't even relevant to the role of the presidency, and in any event, we know they will never deliver on the issues that do matter?
I do share some fear of Trump as President due to his uninhibited nature, but I actually think his incentives are mostly aligned with the good of the American public and thus that he will (mostly) not abuse power. All Presidents do to some degree. But Trump has a brand and a $4 billion net worth to maintain. He is 70 years old and (if he is elected) this will be his final act. With his legacy on the line, and his fortune already made, he has no incentive to sell out and pursue policies that make him look like a traitor. He has already made his fortune and has no reason to betray the people by currying favor with special interests while in office. Also, Trump is not an ideologue. I worry about concentrated power in the hands of an ideologue more than in the hands of a pragmatist.
By contrast, Rubio's entire life trajectory hinges on the events of the next few months. He is being bankrolled by billionaires and the GOP establishment. If he wins, he becomes President for 4-8 years, followed by a lifetime of book sales and speaking fees. His net worth will be much greater. If he loses he'll just go back to having personal debt problems. His incentives are terrible - he has every reason to sell out and act in the interests of the establishment and not the American public. Note that Rubio is not returning to the Senate - it is all or nothing for him at this point.Replies: @Clyde, @Clyde
Good take on the psychology and incentives behind Trump at his age (69) and Marco Rubio at his much younger age of 44. Rubio has already declared he is not running for re-election Senate as a fallback. This means he wants to make the big, big bucks in DC as a lobbyist. His run for President means he will earn even more.
Chico, I want to commend you on your English. You are making good progress. If you stay clean and pay all your back taxes, we may show you that famous path to citizenship El Jebo!!! was talking to Columba about in Spanish.
http://blog.adl.org/anti-semitism/louis-farrakhan-joins-list-of-extremists-praising-donald-trumpReplies: @anon, @Harry Baldwin, @tbraton
Maybe Trump can get him to endorse David Duke and David Duke to endorse Farrakan. That would be an amazing act of diplomacy, enough to justify a Nobel Peace Prize. I’m beginning to wonder whether all these endorsements of Trump by known extremists are being orchestrated by someone seeking to torpedo the Trump candidacy. I wonder why the MSM doesn’t get excited about Al Sharpton being visited by Bernie Sanders or endorsing Hillary Clinton. The same when it comes to Jesse Jackson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/opinion/sunday/the-sad-demise-of-the-summer-job.html?_r=2
What ever could have happened to the American tradition of hiring teens for low skilled summer work? Does not the US economy need low skilled workers? Whoever could it be, that is filling those jobs?
Any ideas?Replies: @tbraton
“What ever could have happened to the American tradition of hiring teens for low skilled summer work? Does not the US economy need low skilled workers? Whoever could it be, that is filling those jobs?”
I started working part-time when I was 13, not because I had to but because I wanted to be able to buy my own clothes without my mother picking out all my stuff. From that age on through college, I worked in various summer jobs every year. I’m just glad that most of that happened before the Immigration Act of 1965 came along because I didn’t have to compete with immigrants. All the jobs paid more than the minimum wage. I guess all those employers were more generous back then.
Needless to say illegals do all those jobs now, and Robert Heinlein State U has become insanely expensive to pay for rock climbing walls and diversity deans.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
Exactly. A common meme in elite media is that Trump has no policies.
My buzz was fully killed when he claimed to be audited by the IRS because "I'm a strong Christian." Trump and Lewandowski must have had a big laugh over that one.
Trump and his crew are very, very, very, very cynical.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @tbraton
“Trump and his crew are very, very, very, very cynical.”
As opposed to all the other candidates, especially Ms. Hillary.
I’m a little surprised that there is little talk about Trump’s foreign policy position, where he has given every indication that he is strongly opposed to our brainless foreign interventions and constant wars. (Think of his risky attack on Jeb!!! and his brother GWB at the SC debate a week before the SC primary, a pretty bold move imo.) That is one area where he doesn’t need any help from Congress. It is the main reason why the neocons are so strongly opposed to his candidacy and threatening to bolt back to their old home in the Democratic Party. Immigration is important, but so is foreign policy.
I think the prior suggestion that somehow Reagan was more intellectually adept than Trump to be sheer nonsense. Trump is a pretty savvy guy who has managed to outwit and flummox all the other conventional political candidates.
Damning with faint praise for the stupid party. That being said, the so-called “Brains Trust” have had to bring their A game recently. Not sure if it has been done yet here but it resembles:
BREAKING: DAVID DUKE Releases Video “I Never Endorsed Trump. Stop Lying” (VIDEO)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/breaking-david-duke-releases-video-i-never-endorsed-trump-stop-lying-video/
Trump is my guy (I leave in a few minutes to go vote for him in the Virginia primary) because I want change. I voted for Obama twice because he lied that he could deliver change (and the Republicans were dumb enough to run McCain and Romney against Obama and now Rubio and Cruz against Trump to try to insure we would have no change … yes, Rubio and Cruz against Trump. HRC is not even a consideration.
Some people compare Trump to Mussolini. A lot of truth to that. My own political and social theory (shades of Hegel and his Philosophy of History) predicts that when a society becomes a “freak show”, anticipate the rise of a Mussolini. Not always bad. Isn’t it about time that the “trains ran on time?”
Did you see Kris Kobach win over a Manhattan audience to his immigration position on Intelligence Squared?
He is the smartest, most eloquent, best mannered Republican politician in the country.
He is the ideal “good-cop” partner for “bad-cop” Trump.
“Bad-cop” Chris Christie would be a disaster.
If Vice-Presidential nominee Kris Kobach can’t convince SWPL America to elect Donald Trump, no one can.
Anyone other than Kobach would be eaten alive by Hillary’s likely VP choice, Rhodes Scholar Corey Booker.
As NJ governor, Chris Christie never dared tangle with Newark mayor Corey Booker. He scheduled the 2013 Senate race for a different day than the gubernatorial race, because he was afraid of Booker’s coattails.
A "dumb" VP (Agnew, Quayle, Gore, and Biden were no such thing, but did come off as so) might be insurance from Deep State assassination (real or virtual, as with Nixon). But a secretary of state or state attorney general might be even better. Assuming he's not in on the plot...
Too bad Kobach is from such a Republican state.Replies: @TangoMan, @Former Darfur
He is the smartest, most eloquent, best mannered Republican politician in the country.
He is the ideal "good-cop" partner for "bad-cop" Trump.
"Bad-cop" Chris Christie would be a disaster.
If Vice-Presidential nominee Kris Kobach can't convince SWPL America to elect Donald Trump, no one can.
Anyone other than Kobach would be eaten alive by Hillary's likely VP choice, Rhodes Scholar Corey Booker.
As NJ governor, Chris Christie never dared tangle with Newark mayor Corey Booker. He scheduled the 2013 Senate race for a different day than the gubernatorial race, because he was afraid of Booker's coattails.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Reg Cæsar
Interesting, do you have a link to Kobach?
Interestingly, after a recent meeting with Senator Roberts Trump discussed the attributes he'd like to see in a running mate. Trump wants someone who would make a good President if, God forbid, Trump dies, and he also wants someone who can help push legislation through the Senate.
Unlike many running mates suggested for symbolic reasons, Kobach obviously has the talents and maturity necessary to be a successful president, and he is young enough to continue Trump's legacy in the Presidential election of 2024. His experience drafting state level immigration bills such as Arizona's SB-1070 would be invaluable on the Senate floor.
Furthermore, as one of your other commenters mentioned, Kobach has a plan to use the Patriot Act to force Mexico to pay for the border wall.
It would obviously be a mistake to draft Sessions or Cruz for VP - that would constitute demotion for either of those Senators. They are too valuable in their current roles - we can't afford to lose a single vote in the Senate. Also, we need to bring an additional leader into the Senate to reinforce the patriots, rather than just reshuffling the existing leaders.
Trump's greatest strength is his ability to bring Democrats, Independents and (especially) non-voters into the Republican fold. His greatest weakness could be his weak hold on the core Republican constituency, White evangelicals. Remember Iowa. No Republican Presidential candidate can afford to have apathetic support from White evangelicals. As a churchgoing family man from the heartland with a long history of social conservative activism, Kobach is ideally suited to fire up the Iowa base while the boss reaches out to Fishtown.
Both Kobach's appearance on Intelligence Squared and Unz's latter appearance on the same program are archived at VDARE. If memory serves, the audience found Kobach's direct advocacy for immigration enforcement more persuasive than Unz's oblique minimum wage based strategy.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon
Will the Deep State kill Trump to prevent this?Replies: @DCThrowback
This is an excellent point, which is why Trump must be uncompromising on his choice of VP and ensure his plane mechanics are well-vetted.
On the other hand, I get the impression he kind of likes the USA, while Hillary and Obama regard it as something to be saddled and bridled.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @MarkinLA, @Das, @Dave Pinsen, @Cicatrizatic, @Antonymous
Judge a politician by his enemies and peers. Who else has the neo-cons threatening to go third party and the leftist establishment throwing a kkk/[insert dictator here] tizzy? Trump has the Chinese foreign ministry concerned, reminding us in a recent statement of the global good “free” trade brings. Likewise Mexican ex-presidents are not pleased with (and in fact believe) Trump’s wall talk. Interestingly Putin has said he believes he and Trump could work together, alone among the primary candidates. I.e., not WWW3, unlike invade and invite Clinton.
There are no links between Kobach and myself, but there are links between Trump and Kobach. Trump employs ex-Sessions staffer Stephen Miller, Sessions and Kansas Senator Pat Roberts are both among the 7 Senators with career A+ rating from NumbersUSA, and Roberts and Kobach are both big fish in the little pond of Kansas Republican politics.
Interestingly, after a recent meeting with Senator Roberts Trump discussed the attributes he’d like to see in a running mate. Trump wants someone who would make a good President if, God forbid, Trump dies, and he also wants someone who can help push legislation through the Senate.
Unlike many running mates suggested for symbolic reasons, Kobach obviously has the talents and maturity necessary to be a successful president, and he is young enough to continue Trump’s legacy in the Presidential election of 2024. His experience drafting state level immigration bills such as Arizona’s SB-1070 would be invaluable on the Senate floor.
Furthermore, as one of your other commenters mentioned, Kobach has a plan to use the Patriot Act to force Mexico to pay for the border wall.
It would obviously be a mistake to draft Sessions or Cruz for VP – that would constitute demotion for either of those Senators. They are too valuable in their current roles – we can’t afford to lose a single vote in the Senate. Also, we need to bring an additional leader into the Senate to reinforce the patriots, rather than just reshuffling the existing leaders.
Trump’s greatest strength is his ability to bring Democrats, Independents and (especially) non-voters into the Republican fold. His greatest weakness could be his weak hold on the core Republican constituency, White evangelicals. Remember Iowa. No Republican Presidential candidate can afford to have apathetic support from White evangelicals. As a churchgoing family man from the heartland with a long history of social conservative activism, Kobach is ideally suited to fire up the Iowa base while the boss reaches out to Fishtown.
Both Kobach’s appearance on Intelligence Squared and Unz’s latter appearance on the same program are archived at VDARE. If memory serves, the audience found Kobach’s direct advocacy for immigration enforcement more persuasive than Unz’s oblique minimum wage based strategy.
He might be referencing this intelligence squared debate from 2011. It was entitled “Don’t give us your tired masses” and features two teams of two people each debating for and against.
On our side is Congressman Tom Tancredo and Kris Kobach. On the other side are your frequent blog topics Julian Castro and Tamar Jacoby
It is rather long at one hour and forty-three minutes. I haven’t yet watched it all. But basically the audience voted before the debate on where they stood on the question of ‘don’t give us your tired masses’. Then after the debate they vote again to see if their opinions changed. I haven’t gotten to the end yet, so I don’t know the results.
One more thing. Watching this debate with Kris Kobach and Julian Castro makes me think that Trump would be wise to pick Kobach and Hillary stupid to pick Castro as their respective VP picks. In the VP debate Kobach would clean Castro’s clock.
He had some all along.
This whole thing has been an eye-opening education in how “experts,” “leaders,” and the rest who comment-to-prove-their-intelligence — including here and elsewhere — actually know little and end up jumping on the bandwagon.
“Sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Welcome to the bandwagon. Enjoy our new president, orange warts and all. He is the only one who at least says he wants to do something about what we keep griping about.
Some have been pointing this out for a tremendously long time now.
The fact of the matter is that Trump is a new kind of leader, and we are new kind of people now. Nihil esse rem publicam, appelationem modo sine corpore ac specie. The Republic is gone now; the Age of the Caesars has begun.
Those who cannot understand this will never learn how to speak Trump. They belong inwardly to the old order, the one that is passing away. But those who do understand this also understand Trump implicitly; the things he says and does are no mystery to them, and the connection he has with them will never be broken.
American, a nation born in rebellion and regicide, is coming to know, however dimly and confusedly at first, just what it means to have a king again. The ideologues of the old republic (read: the Cuckservative Establishment) will balk and throw fits, but their old shibboleths are nothing but barren and threadbare formulae now, shortly to be entombed forever in books that nobody reads. It is the living image of the warrior king which now speaks to men's hearts, which now calls forth loyalty, courage, and valor.
Trump did not accomplish this all on his own. Trump is America; Trump is us. He knows it himself, and this is what gives him his unshakable confidence. The spirit that animates all of us also flows through Trump. He is like Antaeus the giant, who could never be defeated as long as his body touched the earth. Deep down inside, all of us who belong to the future are desirous of this change. We want Trump to be exactly what he is---the destroyer of the establishment.
But it is much bigger than one man. It is...The Birth of a Nation.Replies: @BenKenobi, @Kevin O'Keeffe
Parody or not, that was poetic.
Dan Quayle is still young.
He is the smartest, most eloquent, best mannered Republican politician in the country.
He is the ideal "good-cop" partner for "bad-cop" Trump.
"Bad-cop" Chris Christie would be a disaster.
If Vice-Presidential nominee Kris Kobach can't convince SWPL America to elect Donald Trump, no one can.
Anyone other than Kobach would be eaten alive by Hillary's likely VP choice, Rhodes Scholar Corey Booker.
As NJ governor, Chris Christie never dared tangle with Newark mayor Corey Booker. He scheduled the 2013 Senate race for a different day than the gubernatorial race, because he was afraid of Booker's coattails.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Reg Cæsar
Or Jeff Sessions. But he’s not a good choice because we desperately need him in the Senate.
A “dumb” VP (Agnew, Quayle, Gore, and Biden were no such thing, but did come off as so) might be insurance from Deep State assassination (real or virtual, as with Nixon). But a secretary of state or state attorney general might be even better. Assuming he’s not in on the plot…
Too bad Kobach is from such a Republican state.
This is to Trump's benefit. Trump himself can insure outreach to independents and Democrats but he has to be able to calm the Shrieking Sallies in the Republican fold and a solid guy like Kobach would do it. Secondly, with Trump being a New Yorker with New York values, a Baptist, who home schools his kids checks off another mark. Then we get the educational pedigree for all the nose in the air elitists. Then there is the issue of character - the guy is fighting a principled fight, he's regularly getting called racist by liberals, he's not bought by the open borders crowd, so that has to be a good calling card for those worried about Trump's vacillations on issues.
The only downside is that he's not climbed that high up the political ladder, but considering the community organizer in the WH I'm not sure how important this point is.
Duke and Farrakhan are both separatists. So on the fundamental point, they don’t disagree, they agree.
The great photojournalist Eve Arnold (most famous for her portfolio of Marilyn Monroe and her associates-she was on the set of The Misfits and as I recall introduced fellow photographer Inge Morath to Arthur Miller, whom he married and fathered two children with) covered a Black Muslim group in the later 1960s. Being Jewish, she endured a certain confrontation from the leadership, but they were respectful about it: her biggest problem was the women, who assumed she was a white huntress after their men and would burn her with cigarettes when she wasn't looking.
The best image from the project is one of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell
flanked by his lieutenants, Matt Koehl and the other guy (I forget his name-it wasn't Pierce, nor the guy that shot him, Patsalos/Patler) sitting front row and surrounded by perhaps a thousand Black Muslims. They look pretty comfortable.
Well, since they agree on the basic point of separation, Trump should have no problem getting them to hug for the cameras. That would go far to heal the divisions in this country. If the white state (Duke) can hug the black state (Farrakan), then the division between Red states and Blue states would dissolve in tears of joy, and we can be one people again.
My take is that when Trump promises Mexico will pay, he's warning you that he's a liar. Trump feels no sympathy for rubes.Replies: @Das, @Reg Cæsar
The point is not to make Mexico pay in petropesos. It’s to make Mexico pay in reputation. To neutralize their influence.
Our southern border mess is as much their responsibility as it is ours.
The fact of the matter is that Trump is a new kind of leader, and we are new kind of people now. Nihil esse rem publicam, appelationem modo sine corpore ac specie. The Republic is gone now; the Age of the Caesars has begun.
Those who cannot understand this will never learn how to speak Trump. They belong inwardly to the old order, the one that is passing away. But those who do understand this also understand Trump implicitly; the things he says and does are no mystery to them, and the connection he has with them will never be broken.
American, a nation born in rebellion and regicide, is coming to know, however dimly and confusedly at first, just what it means to have a king again. The ideologues of the old republic (read: the Cuckservative Establishment) will balk and throw fits, but their old shibboleths are nothing but barren and threadbare formulae now, shortly to be entombed forever in books that nobody reads. It is the living image of the warrior king which now speaks to men's hearts, which now calls forth loyalty, courage, and valor.
Trump did not accomplish this all on his own. Trump is America; Trump is us. He knows it himself, and this is what gives him his unshakable confidence. The spirit that animates all of us also flows through Trump. He is like Antaeus the giant, who could never be defeated as long as his body touched the earth. Deep down inside, all of us who belong to the future are desirous of this change. We want Trump to be exactly what he is---the destroyer of the establishment.
But it is much bigger than one man. It is...The Birth of a Nation.Replies: @BenKenobi, @Kevin O'Keeffe
“The fact of the matter is that Trump is a new kind of leader, and we are new kind of people now. Nihil esse rem publicam, appelationem modo sine corpore ac specie. The Republic is gone now; the Age of the Caesars has begun.
Those who cannot understand this will never learn how to speak Trump. They belong inwardly to the old order, the one that is passing away. But those who do understand this also understand Trump implicitly; the things he says and does are no mystery to them, and the connection he has with them will never be broken.
American, a nation born in rebellion and regicide, is coming to know, however dimly and confusedly at first, just what it means to have a king again. The ideologues of the old republic (read: the Cuckservative Establishment) will balk and throw fits, but their old shibboleths are nothing but barren and threadbare formulae now, shortly to be entombed forever in books that nobody reads. It is the living image of the warrior king which now speaks to men’s hearts, which now calls forth loyalty, courage, and valor.
Trump did not accomplish this all on his own. Trump is America; Trump is us. He knows it himself, and this is what gives him his unshakable confidence. The spirit that animates all of us also flows through Trump. He is like Antaeus the giant, who could never be defeated as long as his body touched the earth. Deep down inside, all of us who belong to the future are desirous of this change. We want Trump to be exactly what he is—the destroyer of the establishment.
But it is much bigger than one man. It is…The Birth of a Nation.”
I can imagine some of y’all are doubtless a bit put off by the sweeping quality of this gentleman’s language, but I for one, think he is probably correct.
Never fall in love with a politician. Having said that, maybe one of the Western World's biggest problems is this need for ideology. The heck with ideology, weak or strong. Chuck the ideology. The whole encyclopedia set. Just solve the problems in front of your face as they come. Try not to lose. Play defense. Conserve what you're able to defend. Fight for what you should. Pay attention and use common sense. You'll be busy enough without worrying about ideology.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @scrivener3
In Russia they had constant problems with low production, poor quality and production of goods not wanted by consumers. When the people in control set a goal (quota) for a chandelier factory in tons, the factory produced gigantic chandeliers that no one could use.
So the controllers changed the quota from weight to number of chandeliers. Then the factory manufactured tiny little chandeliers that looked stupid.
For fifty years Russia, China, East Germany constantly tried to solve their economic problems, but nothing lifted them out of poverty. Their ideology, central planning, doomed all efforts to solve problems as they appeared. They had to allow prices to be set by a market, consumer freedom to buy or not buy what they wished, unsuccessful producers to fail, etc. They had to take on the whole package, more or less. I’d call that a major move towards a free market ideology from a centrally planned market ideology.
What could the central planners in Russia under communism have done to fix their problems? A quota specified in thousands of pages just for chandeliers? A country with freedom of the press is going to have a more productive intellectual discussion than a country with censorship, no matter how wise the censors.
There is a long history of interaction between black separatists and white separatists. Most of it is surprisingly amicable.
The great photojournalist Eve Arnold (most famous for her portfolio of Marilyn Monroe and her associates-she was on the set of The Misfits and as I recall introduced fellow photographer Inge Morath to Arthur Miller, whom he married and fathered two children with) covered a Black Muslim group in the later 1960s. Being Jewish, she endured a certain confrontation from the leadership, but they were respectful about it: her biggest problem was the women, who assumed she was a white huntress after their men and would burn her with cigarettes when she wasn’t looking.
The best image from the project is one of American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell
flanked by his lieutenants, Matt Koehl and the other guy (I forget his name-it wasn’t Pierce, nor the guy that shot him, Patsalos/Patler) sitting front row and surrounded by perhaps a thousand Black Muslims. They look pretty comfortable.
A "dumb" VP (Agnew, Quayle, Gore, and Biden were no such thing, but did come off as so) might be insurance from Deep State assassination (real or virtual, as with Nixon). But a secretary of state or state attorney general might be even better. Assuming he's not in on the plot...
Too bad Kobach is from such a Republican state.Replies: @TangoMan, @Former Darfur
Too bad Kobach is from such a Republican state.
This is to Trump’s benefit. Trump himself can insure outreach to independents and Democrats but he has to be able to calm the Shrieking Sallies in the Republican fold and a solid guy like Kobach would do it. Secondly, with Trump being a New Yorker with New York values, a Baptist, who home schools his kids checks off another mark. Then we get the educational pedigree for all the nose in the air elitists. Then there is the issue of character – the guy is fighting a principled fight, he’s regularly getting called racist by liberals, he’s not bought by the open borders crowd, so that has to be a good calling card for those worried about Trump’s vacillations on issues.
The only downside is that he’s not climbed that high up the political ladder, but considering the community organizer in the WH I’m not sure how important this point is.
A "dumb" VP (Agnew, Quayle, Gore, and Biden were no such thing, but did come off as so) might be insurance from Deep State assassination (real or virtual, as with Nixon). But a secretary of state or state attorney general might be even better. Assuming he's not in on the plot...
Too bad Kobach is from such a Republican state.Replies: @TangoMan, @Former Darfur
Kansas is Republican, but it’s Stupid Republican, which is why Democrats win the governorship and important House seats (Sedgwick and Johnson County) quite regularly. The country clubbers and the fundies hate each other more than the Democrats.
“Duke and Farrakhan are both separatists. So on the fundamental point, they don’t disagree, they agree.”
Well, since they agree on the basic point of separation, Trump should have no problem getting them to hug for the cameras. That would go far to heal the divisions in this country. If the white state (Duke) can hug the black state (Farrakan), then the division between Red states and Blue states would dissolve in tears of joy, and we can be one people again.
Interestingly, after a recent meeting with Senator Roberts Trump discussed the attributes he'd like to see in a running mate. Trump wants someone who would make a good President if, God forbid, Trump dies, and he also wants someone who can help push legislation through the Senate.
Unlike many running mates suggested for symbolic reasons, Kobach obviously has the talents and maturity necessary to be a successful president, and he is young enough to continue Trump's legacy in the Presidential election of 2024. His experience drafting state level immigration bills such as Arizona's SB-1070 would be invaluable on the Senate floor.
Furthermore, as one of your other commenters mentioned, Kobach has a plan to use the Patriot Act to force Mexico to pay for the border wall.
It would obviously be a mistake to draft Sessions or Cruz for VP - that would constitute demotion for either of those Senators. They are too valuable in their current roles - we can't afford to lose a single vote in the Senate. Also, we need to bring an additional leader into the Senate to reinforce the patriots, rather than just reshuffling the existing leaders.
Trump's greatest strength is his ability to bring Democrats, Independents and (especially) non-voters into the Republican fold. His greatest weakness could be his weak hold on the core Republican constituency, White evangelicals. Remember Iowa. No Republican Presidential candidate can afford to have apathetic support from White evangelicals. As a churchgoing family man from the heartland with a long history of social conservative activism, Kobach is ideally suited to fire up the Iowa base while the boss reaches out to Fishtown.
Both Kobach's appearance on Intelligence Squared and Unz's latter appearance on the same program are archived at VDARE. If memory serves, the audience found Kobach's direct advocacy for immigration enforcement more persuasive than Unz's oblique minimum wage based strategy.Replies: @The Millennial Falcon
Here’s the URL to the full video:
Chico, I hope you are on this side of the Wall when they build it. Hey, isn’t there the “Wall” in the Game of Thrones? Keeps everyone safe.
Also El Profesor and Generalissimo intellectiual Aleksandr Dugin endores El Jefe!
I started working part-time when I was 13, not because I had to but because I wanted to be able to buy my own clothes without my mother picking out all my stuff. From that age on through college, I worked in various summer jobs every year. I'm just glad that most of that happened before the Immigration Act of 1965 came along because I didn't have to compete with immigrants. All the jobs paid more than the minimum wage. I guess all those employers were more generous back then.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Boomstick
tbraton, I looked forward to earning my own money, made it seem special. We even worked factory jobs over summer break…way before OSHA, though.My five children all had to work and play one sport. Now it seems that parents don’t encourage this. The counter people I see at the stores seem to be older. Lawn guys here are all white.
I started working part-time when I was 13, not because I had to but because I wanted to be able to buy my own clothes without my mother picking out all my stuff. From that age on through college, I worked in various summer jobs every year. I'm just glad that most of that happened before the Immigration Act of 1965 came along because I didn't have to compete with immigrants. All the jobs paid more than the minimum wage. I guess all those employers were more generous back then.Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Boomstick
I grew up in a rural area where harvesting crops was the typical way for teenagers to make school money. I wound up paying most of my way through college with farm jobs.
Needless to say illegals do all those jobs now, and Robert Heinlein State U has become insanely expensive to pay for rock climbing walls and diversity deans.
But when you can construct your own reality through conversation, the sky is not even the limit! To infinity and beyond! The socialist paradise is just round the corner! Marxist alienation can be swept away by the new world order!
And here is your bowl of gruel - and just be glad you get gruel - for the 75% of your fellow citizens that "have not been re-educated" it is a crust of bread and a bowl of steam!
I think I detect an emerging establishment strategy of “embrace and co-opt” towards Trump as he becomes increasingly likely to be the candidate. Personnel is policy, and if they place enough people in policy slots they gain, so they hope, a degree of control over the campaign and any prospective administration.
I might need to turn on the charm and create some “Anchor Bab …” — I mean — American Dreamers jess to play it safe, no?
Also El Profesor and Generalissimo intellectiual Aleksandr Dugin endores El Jefe!
Needless to say illegals do all those jobs now, and Robert Heinlein State U has become insanely expensive to pay for rock climbing walls and diversity deans.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
And saddling students with the debt needed to indulge the self-righteous preening of the virtue-signalling university Leftists has given rise to the insurgence of Burn-E Sanders. Free university education for all! A guaranteed job for everyone! And all for the meager price of self-determination, liberty and a one-way ticket to the Gulag!
But when you can construct your own reality through conversation, the sky is not even the limit! To infinity and beyond! The socialist paradise is just round the corner! Marxist alienation can be swept away by the new world order!
And here is your bowl of gruel – and just be glad you get gruel – for the 75% of your fellow citizens that “have not been re-educated” it is a crust of bread and a bowl of steam!
Isn’t the brain trust of the Republican Establishment the intellectual equivalent of the Social Security Trust Fund?