Another Trump Thread, from an Different Angle

[_honorentheos]

I normally would hesitate to start another thread on a topic that is being well covered in others. But I thought the recent article from Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi on Trump was unique enough to deserve sharing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224

What makes it different, in my opinion, is that Taibbi is no friend to the political establishment and often writes about bipartisan political corruption only possible when both sides collude. His take down of the mortgage crisis culprits was an ongoing crusade over years and offered no quarter to either political party. His views seem to be most compatible with Sanders'.

So, his take on Donald Trump is one that often seems sympathetic to the underlying messages of Trumps campaign while clearly signaling he isn't buying it. He touches on why both labor unions and traditional conservative voters have begun to endorse him. And why it's likely Trump enjoys a form of the opposite of the Bradley Effect where people are more likely to vote for him in the privacy of the polling booth than might admit it to a pollster.

He still comes down where so many others do in seeing Trump as a dangerous candidate though making it sound like a Trump Presidency is almost a given if it comes down to Hilary vs. Trump (worth reading for that part alone). And I think he attempts a Jedi mind trick when discussing media's culpability in the political process by trying to make it look like he's standing on the readers side of the line by facing the same way they are (he isn't). But it's a thought provoking read, in my opinion, even for someone tired of hearing about Trump.

In person, you can't miss it: The same way Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, Donald on the stump can see his future. The pundits don't want to admit it, but it's sitting there in plain view, 12 moves ahead, like a chess game already won:

President Donald Trump.

A thousand ridiculous accidents needed to happen in the unlikeliest of sequences for it to be possible, but absent a dramatic turn of events – an early primary catastrophe, Mike Bloomberg ego-crashing the race, etc. – this boorish, monosyllabic TV tyrant with the attention span of an Xbox-playing 11-year-old really is set to lay waste to the most impenetrable oligarchy the Western world ever devised.

[_Some Schmo]

That was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

Trump vs Clinton is like the Browns vs the Jags. Someone's got to win, but it's hard to imagine who.