At present, Donald Trump appears to be dominating both Marco Rubio and John Kasich in their home states. This is extremely telling.
Nevertheless, the real life conspiracy (yes, Virginia, in the real world, extremely wealthy and powerful people do conspire — get over it!) to destroy the Trump candidacy is underway. It could backfire. So far, all such efforts have. Mitt Romney has gotten a lot of hate email, I hear, since his infamous speech at the University of Utah a week ago. But of course it might not. I’m reminded here of the conspiracy that created the Federal Reserve System. Powerful people converging for a secret meeting at an island off the coast of Georgia? Déjà vu all over again! Are they forgetting that this is the Internet age? It's very, very difficult, for anyone to really conspire in secret anymore? We know who they are, and what they are doing. That is why it might very well backfire. If the GOP is destroyed in the course of this election, it will not be the Trump campaign that destroys it. It will be the GOP elites who will do anything to maintain power!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
http://www.technewstoday.com/28860-apple-ceo-tim-cook-attends-secret-meeting-to-stop-donald-trump/
These people are profoundly dishonest (ya think?). Earlier today, I ran across a page that displayed four girls standing in a row, obviously intended to portray Trump supporters, wearing t-shirts reading, in sequence: “Make. America. White. Again.”
The picture turned out to have been photoshopped. It was a hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/make-america-white-again-trump/
This is why, if some folks have trouble with Trump, others of us are having considerably more trouble with his detractors, some of whom are clearly pulling out all the stops to try and destroy his reputation before he can win enough delegates to clinch the GOP nomination.
While no one knows who perpetuated the hoax, I am starting to think there is very little we can put past these people. Displayed before the wrong audience, such an image is quite capable of provoking a violent reaction, possibly a clash between blacks and white Trump supporters.
Why?
Consider this comment from Newt Gingrich (who ought to know!) is surely relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO-NA73FsW8
Initiation rites? The secret society? (Note the definite article.)
Do you have any questions?
A message from Trump’s America: a message of hopelessness and despair from those bastions of “white privilege” such as the Appalachian Mountains. Rural whites are voting for Trump not because they think he’s the Second Coming or even because they especially like him but because, for the first time in eons, they hear someone speaking up who at least appears to represent their interests even if he is a billionaire. Yes, he’s also an authoritarian, but so what?
http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2016-03-09/a-message-from-trumps-america
It dawns on me again how the globalist elites, especially those in the Republican Party, have done this to themselves, and how utterly impervious they are to rational discourse. They simply will not talk, that is, to those they consider beneath them. Dr. Ron Paul was our way of trying to reason with them, back in 2008 and 2012. They weren’t interested. So now we have Trump: someone less interested in reasoning with the enemy and more interested in getting things done. What he can do, of course, we may never get to find out due to the ongoing effort to destroy his candidacy (see second link above again).
Be this as it may, word has gone out from the RNC Chair for the contestants in tonight’s GOP debate in Miami to be nice. To be, that is, a bit less potty-mouth minded then they were at the last GOP debate, where in response to a Rubio comment Trump referred rather openly to his virility.
Or possibly not. Who knows?
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politics/republican-debate-what-to-watch/index.html
Such things reflect the cheapening of political discourse, itself a product of the coarsening of the culture generally. Why would anyone expect political discourse to be immune?
Just to note, in closing: because of a combination of commitments tomorrow which will keep me away from my computer nearly all day, there will be no Daily Donald tomorrow. I assume the world won’t come to an end (although I might miss an opportunity to note Trump putting one of his detractors in his/her place). Experience, i.e., last Friday’s Daily Donald which only got 9 hits, tells me that Friday at 6 pm is a lousy time for a blog post, anyway.
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