The Establishments war on Donald Trump
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Title: Candidate Trump Will Soon Become One of the ‘Losers’ He Constantly Mocks
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National Review
URL Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/artic ... donald-trump-campaign-collapse
Published: Sep 26, 2015
Author: George Will
Post Date: 2015-09-27 14:08:22 by Tooconservative
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Comments: 10
America’s loopy Left is enamored of someone who becomes cranky about bobblehead figurines. Sober Democrats are queasy about nominating Hillary Clinton, who has much to apologize for but no aptitude for apologies. Those Republicans who hope she is denied the nomination are perhaps imprudent. And even Republicans who recoil from Donald Trump’s repulsiveness might want to defer the delicious pleasure of witnessing his apoplexy when he joins, as surely he will, the ranks of those he most despises — “losers.” In 2011, Bernie Sanders said “we’ve got some very, very serious problems” because the Founding Fathers bobbleheads sold at the Smithsonian Museum of American History were made in China. He exclaimed: “A museum owned by the people of America — a museum which talks about our own history — cannot even have products manufactured in the United States by American workers?” In a hilarious video assembled by the high-spirited folks at Reason.TV, Sanders summons Smithsonian officials to his office to grovel and promise to mend their ways. Sanders’ wrath did not produce a complete purge: The museum still sells imported gimcracks. Clinton, who could lose to Sanders, might actually think she apologized concerning her private e-mail server. What she said (really: parse her ABC interview) was that she should have been clearer and quicker in explaining why she has nothing to apologize for. Joe Biden may be one of those knickknacks that look better in the store window than in your living room, but he probably would be a stronger nominee than Clinton, whose campaign operatives believe, oxymoronically, that she should adopt a policy of spontaneity. Some operatives thought it shrewd to share this calculation with the New York Times, which headlined its scoop “Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say.” (The Onion’s take: “Campaign Staffers Making Progress Conditioning Hillary Clinton to Replicate Emotions.”) Trump believes he should be president because of his business savvy. But he has, in effect, shrunk the large inheritance he received from his father. In 1982, Forbes reported Trump’s net worth at $200 million. Vox calculates that if he had put that in an index fund “at a 0.15 percent fee, he’d have $6.3 billion today after dividend taxes, almost certainly more than he actually does.” And an AP analysis showed that if in 1988 he had put his money in an index fund he would have $13 billion. (He has not really revealed his net worth, but any Trump reticence is as welcome as it is rare.) Only Trump is thinking transgressively, which the intelligentsia encourages us to do. Sanders just wants a lot more of wealth redistributions. Clinton wants a bit less than a lot more. Trump, however, has made something novel discussible: He proposes turning America into a police state in order to facilitate ethnic cleansing. When asked whether the forced deportation of 11 million illegal immigrants — almost as many people as passed through Ellis Island in 60 years — might take five or even ten years, Trump scoffed: “Really good management” will get this done in at most two years. To meet a two-year deadline, his “management” wizardry will have to quickly produce a network of informers to assist at least 100,000 new law enforcement officers equipped with battering rams and bloodhounds. Some Republicans think such ideas are not altogether helpful to their party’s attempt to present a pleasant face to temperate voters who are fond of civil liberties. However, some Republicans also worry that if Trump’s inevitable collapse comes too soon, his supporters might move en masse to Ted Cruz before the “SEC primary” of Southern states on March 1. On that day, there and elsewhere, at least 704 delegates will be chosen, more than five times the 133 allocated by February’s four events (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada). Some Republicans say Cruz has a real if narrow path to the nomination, but no plausible path to 270 electoral votes. As the nominee, Cruz would, these Republicans warn, lose so badly in red or purple states choosing senators in 2016 (Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, Illinois) that he would cost Republicans control of the Senate. It is, however, unclear that Trumpkins will all migrate to one candidate when their hero departs, strutting while slouching. And although deferring delights can be virtuous, nothing is now more virtuous than scrubbing, as soon as possible, the Trump stain from public life. Poster Comment: National Review continues its love affair with Trump. That is, the guy they love to hate. You have to admire these pundits who keep getting paid to write the same "Trump is over" story, week after week.
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
Yep. I admire them the same way I admire my weatherman who is always predicting rain. When it finally does -- after three weeks of dry conditions -- he says, "See! I told you it would rain." That kind of admiration.
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George Will - it's equally true that if your auntie had balls, she'd be your uncle. What's your point, that Bernie Sanders/George W. Bush socialists have taken more from the average American taxpayer, than Trump? Big D&R party government is the problem, not the solution. Maybe Wills' point is that Trump simply cannot be compared to the major tycoons like Buffet and the Koch brothers and Gates (and Jobs and Zuckerburg).
I just knew you'd like it. I did notice that Will let slip how the elite is thinking about Trump. They are sure one of their GOPe candidates will defeat him, mostly by waiting until he implodes with one careless crack too many. So some of the GOPe elite want him to implode but not too soon so as to keep the Trump supporters from all flocking to a Cruz who might then be in a position, due to the changes in the 2016 primary calendar, to battle all the way to the convention and the nomination. And Cruz has been playing his cards exactly this way, spending fair amounts of time in later primary states to lay the basis for that kind of long run. Others, like Will, think the Trump's supporters will scatter and dilute among other candidates and most will support Carson or Fiorina until they blow themselves up too. Will indicates that the GOPe establishment knows they can't win any quick battles with Trump so they are prepared to deal with a long war against Trump or, if Trump drops out, against Cruz who would end up with most of the Trump supporters. So Will tells us as much in his asides and assumptions as he does in his prior analysis and jabs at Trump.
It is not at all hard to see how to do this in two years. FIRST: every illegal getting government benefits of whatever sort is easy to identify. as are all of the illegals who got the various "substitute identity cards" various state governments give out. They have addresses. And are numerous and known. You start there. SECOND: require every employer to recertify every employee. Do not exempt small business. Those that don't comply, crucify: $1 million fine per violation, with personal liability for LLCs, LPs and Sole Proprietorship. Report NOW or lose your personal house. Put an amnesty on top of it for employers: if they discharge somebody NOW, for lack of papers, no consequence, no collection of back taxes, etc. But if they brazen it out, they pay the fine, AND they pay all the back taxes with penalty and interest and go to jail for tax fraud. This will result in massive nationwide unemployment of illegals, which means... THIRD: when they go to get any benefits, for poverty relief - you give them the foodstamps, health care, etc., while you're deporting them. And finally, FOURTH: their last refuge will be the Catholic Church. SOOOOO...you revoke the 501(c) (3) exemption from every Church that doesn't hand over the illegals (or expel them from the shelters, etc. And there, ilico presto, due to economic need and joblessness, they stop coming, and you send millions of them home. Without informer networks (though you can have that), or bloodhounds. People don't stay if they can't work. Do I ADVOCATE that? No, of course I don't. But that's how you do it: you use the tax code and criminal code to criminalize employers who hire illegals, making it impossible for illegals to make a living. Then they leave. The ones that stay end up needing welfare, and then you get them and they leave. Done. My own solution would be more humane and better, but I'm not running for President.
After a wall is built, illegal benefits cut off, and illegal employment shut down, any citizen who wishes can sign up to be a federal bounty hunter. Beginning in 6 months, $5,000 tax free per illegal turned into ICE. No limit. No questions. However ... any illegal who self-deports in the first 6 months gets $5,000 at the border on the way out (after being photographed, fingerprinted and a DNA sample taken). Returning illegally, well, let's say it would have dire consequences. I'd say there'd be a stampede to self-deport.
I don't think anybody is really worried about that. He's running for ego reasons. The instant he starts to take a dump in the polls he is going to step down so nobody can call him a loser,and then turn around and say he COULD have been president if you had wanted,but dropped out because he was tired of associating with losers. Trump is NOT going to put his money in a blind trust for 4 to 8 years and let someone else run it. Period. Not gonna happen. That would be lose/lose for him. If whoever managed it lost money,he would lose status. If whoever ran it earned more money of the same time period than him,he would lose status. Only losers lose. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Hey, if the rope-a-dope tactic worked for Ali, maybe it'll work for others. "Others, like Will, think the Trump's supporters will scatter and dilute among other candidates and most will support Carson or Fiorina until they blow themselves up too." Possibly, but then what? Do you think someone who once supported Trump (or Carson or Fiorina) is going to vote for JEB!? The GOPe is making the mistake of thinking that Trump is the problem. Not surprising coming from a leadership that thinks the way to get more votes is to be more liberal. THEY are the problem, and Trump is the solution.
I think the elite certainly thinks so. Normally, when a party is out of the WH for 2 terms, their partisans will overlook almost anything in the name of victory. The GOPe elite knows this has been true for a long time and will likely be true in 2016. The Dims similarly believe that, even if most of their voters don't like Hitlery or trust Hitlery, they'll still vote for Hitlery anyway.
"You have to admire these pundits who keep getting paid to write the same "Trump is over" story, week after week."
#2. To: TooConservative (#0)
#3. To: TooConservative, George Neocon Will (#0)
Vox calculates that if he had put that in an index fund “at a 0.15 percent fee, he’d have $6.3 billion today after dividend taxes, almost certainly more than he actually does.” And an AP analysis showed that if in 1988 he had put his money in an index fund he would have $13 billion.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
George Will - it's equally true that if your auntie had balls, she'd be your uncle.
#5. To: misterwhite (#1)
That kind of admiration.
#6. To: (#0)
Trump scoffed: “Really good management” will get this done in at most two years. To meet a two-year deadline, his “management” wizardry will have to quickly produce a network of informers to assist at least 100,000 new law enforcement officers equipped with battering rams and bloodhounds.
#7. To: Vicomte13 (#6)
(Edited)
"It is not at all hard to see how to do this in two years."
#8. To: TooConservative (#5)
I did notice that Will let slip how the elite is thinking about Trump. They are sure one of their GOPe candidates will defeat him, mostly by waiting until he implodes with one careless crack too many.
#9. To: TooConservative (#5)
"They are sure one of their GOPe candidates will defeat him, mostly by waiting until he implodes with one careless crack too many."
#10. To: misterwhite (#9)
Possibly, but then what? Do you think someone who once supported Trump (or Carson or Fiorina) is going to vote for JEB!?
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