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It may be seem like ancient history after the country's joy in vanquishing Osama bin Laden, but just recently another outsized personality was taking his own victory lap.
We'll never know whether the putative Trump candidacy was simply a side show designed to burnish The Donald's brand or whether it revealed one the most prominent glass jaws in political history.
Like most contact sports, politics is fun until you take that first hit, as Trump found out at the White House Correspondents Dinner two weeks ago.
Still, there is no denying that, for three weeks in April, Donald Trump was a political phenomenon.
Tapping Into The Thirst
One could write this off as America's endless fascination with celebrity, but the size and enthusiasm of the crowds he summoned suggest that such a characterization would be mistake. It would be hard to deny that he tapped into a thirst in the American people for a quality that can seem hopelessly outdated in our modern "I'm-OK-you're-OK" society — pride.
Generally, Trump recognized that most Americans believe in their exceptionalism and are tired of the constant focus on the country's defects under the cloak of "change."
He expressed, simply and directly, a frustration among most Americans with being pushed around by countries, like China and many oil-producing nations in the Middle East, that are (dare we say it?) inferior to America in their pursuit of economic freedom and human dignity.
As the richest country on the planet, it's easier to be magnanimous and accept these differences (and the economic disadvantages to average Americans they create) when times are good. But they appear eminently nonsensical, almost traitorous, when times are bad.
Although The Donald never quite precisely expressed it this way, his brief flirtation with a presidential campaign exposed a fundamental truth: Allowing China to peg its currency to the dollar may be called many things (practical, farsighted), but it is demonstrably not free trade.
He, almost alone among those seeking the presidency, has had the courage to question whether the terms of trade we have established with China has been some Faustian bargain that provided a boon to multinational corporations.
Those firms have the resources to shift inputs around the globe with relative ease at the expense of many small businesses and high-paying, middle-class jobs for those without college degrees.
Hundreds of hollowed-out manufacturing towns and fractured lives in the Northeast and Midwest stand as monuments to the insistence of the political and intellectual elite that anything described as free trade is always in the national interest.
The liberal vision of government is easily understood and makes perfect sense if one acknowledges their misunderstanding and implied assumptions about the sources of income. Their vision helps explain the language they use and policies they support, such as income redistribution and calls for the ...
According to a mid-May news story, Democrats are considering using the issue of the auto bailouts in the 2012 election — as a political asset. The argument is, since government losses appear to be "minimal," Americans will likely see the auto bailouts — and by extension the entire ...
Unless things change, the man (or woman) elected in 2012 will be the last American president to preside over the world's leading economy. If things get really bad, he will find himself presiding over the early stages of American collapse. Not "decline" but "collapse." "Decline" is what happens when ...
On Thursday, Republican Senators will meet with President Obama to discuss the steps we need to take to get America's fiscal house in order. The president will likely try to scare us into raising the nation's debt ceiling. As early as next month, Washington will confront the choice of whether to ...
Impose the world's highest corporate income tax rate, and we can expect the result will be too few corporations and too much government. "The United States may soon wind up with the distinction that makes business leaders cringe — the highest corporate tax rate in the world," wrote New York ...
Posted By: niteski(2180) on 5/20/2011 | 11:52 AM ET
Protectionism. Yeah, just like the Smoot Hawley Tariff act of 1930. Now that was a year that led to REAL big things. Let's see, we've had deleveraging, deflation in housing and wealth, Deglobalization should make things complete.
Posted By: jimh54(520) on 5/20/2011 | 5:14 AM ET
It is too bad when the political landscape is littered with has-beens and pundits that cling to them. Trump did bring out questions that needed to be brought out - and did it in a brash way - something the political "elite" (both sides of the aisle) could not. I hope he keeps it up - and brings even more heat.
Posted By: AUH2O4ever(150) on 5/20/2011 | 3:01 AM ET
Too bad this guy failed to mention the mauling Trump got from the Right, such as Krauthammer calling him a "clown," and Coulter, I believe saying he was a "carnival barker." They not only insulted Trump, they insulted me and everyone else who was electrified by his passionate patriotism and bold attack on issues still being ignored by the rest of the field. Glass jaw? I can't imagine Trump expected to be savaged by OUR side!
Posted By: AUH2O4ever(150) on 5/20/2011 | 2:57 AM ET
Too bad this guy failed to mention the mauling Trump got from the Right, such as Krauthammer calling him a "clown," and Coulter, I believe, saying he was a "carnival barker." They not only insulted Trump, they insulted me and everyone else who was electrified by his passionate patriotism and bold attack on issues still being ignored by the rest of the field. Glass jaw? I can't imagine Trump anti***ted being savaged by OUR side. Where, exactly, was he supposed to go fro
Posted By: Vicki Speer(740) on 5/20/2011 | 1:36 AM ET
TRUMP LOVES America and believes in capitalism. He does not want Chinese or anyone taking advantage of America. In the mean time, Obama Administration let the chinese military have a tour of our secret military facilities. They are doing nothing about Iran nuclear path and are turning our back on Israel. Trump is an adult where the man child playing President is going to get us killed.
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