Finneran: Donald Trump, Fair And Square
Friday, May 06, 2016
And so it came to pass, in the Year of our Lord 2016, that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for the office of President of the United States of America. And he won it fair and square.
All of which goes to show that God has a great sense of humor................
To most sentient observers it is a stunning development, a moment in time when the world seems upside down. No one, absolutely no one, including Donald Trump foresaw this happening.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe elated Democrats had best suppress their elation and hide their smirks. Trump has already given them plenty of ammo to use against him but he will also be firing absolutely novel heavy ordnance at them. Is Hillary Clinton nimble enough, creative enough, original enough to withstand such artillery? Bernie Sanders demonstrates that there are some doubts...........
Democrats should remind themselves that the biggest loser this year has been “CW”—i.e.—conventional wisdom. As each pillar of such wisdom has been blasted to smithereens by Mr. Trump, pundits and observers (including me) have offered up puzzled explanations and yet more conventional predictions. None of which have come to pass...........................
Just for fun let’s rewind the clock a year to May of 2015. At that time the Republican field was far more impressive than the Democratic field. Consider numbers, breadth, depth, experience, diversity, and impressive achievements as the yardsticks and any thoughtful unbiased American was looking forward to the sorting out process of debates, caucuses, and primaries.
Jindal, Carson, Paul, Christie, Kasich, Rubio, Cruz, Fiorina, Walker, Bush, et. al. You had a surgeon, a CEO, current and former Governors, current and former U.S. Senators and a multitude of issues for them to explore. It was setting up as a classic course on American civics.
Enter Donald Trump on his descending escalator and his instinctive grasp that immigration, specifically illegal immigration, was the secret weapon to be wielded against all the tentative mushy-mouthed pols who were leery of the issue and frightened by the N.Y.Times. Ordinary Americans may have been silenced on the issue of illegal immigration by the politically correct thought police lurking in our midst but that does not mean that they agree with the Republicans, the Democrats, or the Times. Silence is not assent. Many Americans sense that immigration issues have completely compromised both parties for all the wrong reasons. And those Americans are justifiably angry about being labelled rubes and racists by the very people who have sold out for sordid political reasons. Trump’s rise has been a stunning rebuke to the political dance around “comprehensive immigration reform”.
What’s Next:
Two things will bear close watching—
1) Trump’s effort to unite a badly fractured party, starting with philosophical conservatives who are appalled at his history on marital fidelity, property rights, judicial appointments, health care, trade, and the proper role, scale, and responsibilities of the federal government;
2) Trump’s review and selection of a Vice Presidential running mate will be the stuff of high drama for the nation’s political junkies. Stay tuned.
A Word To The Wise For The Democrats:
Be wary, very very wary of Donald Trump. He is a new political force, not so much on the natural talent dimension of a JFK, a Ronald Reagan, a Deval Patrick, or a Barack Obama. Theirs were verbal talents, and, with the exception of Reagan, those talents were amplified by a nausea-inducing in-the-tank press corps. Rather, Trump’s “talent” is his willingness, indeed his eagerness, to punch, to go for the jugular, and to throw debate decorum right out the window. There will be no niceties, no courtesies, none of the little windows of opportunity that allow a debate opponent to recover her thoughts and her footing. And there are many issues on which the American people feel as if the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Eight years of George Bush, followed by eight years of Barack Obama have left lots of people disappointed. As Mr. Outsider, Trump need only drum away on the multitude of mistakes and missed opportunities bequeathed to the nation by classic Insiders............he’ll be drumming away like Buddy Rich in his debates with Hillary.
A final thought---Democratic Presidential candidates have often been protected by a highly biased media. Witness Candy Crowley’s protective political instincts kick in regarding President Obama as Mitt Romney closed in for the kill on the Benghazi debacle. This time around the media will be unable to protect the Democrat in that fashion, for Trump will immediately go for the double kill—lambasting both candidate and moderator as part of a Washington D.C. elite back-scratching culture which has badly harmed the nation.
Mitt Romney did not have the killer instinct on that national stage. Trump does............and he’ll be bringing his New York switchblades.
Tom Finneran is the former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, served as the head the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, and was a longstanding radio voice in Boston radio.
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