So, it would appear a portion of America really wants to prove to the rest of the world how ignorant they really are. Donald Trump won Nevada. Yet another shameful moment that is the United States election of 2016.
Now the media is all over Mr. Trump, calling him unstoppable. Which is interesting since he has not yet broken the threshold of 100 delegates. If I was not seeing the land of my birth self destruct before my eyes, I simply would not believe it.
And probably what is more shocking is that people are pretending to that they did not see this coming.
The truth is Trump has been a long time coming. The rise of the sense of victimhood among a certain percentage of Americans aided by a certain “news” network and a blogosphere that made it its life’s mission to vilify both a democratically elected president and the processes that got him there, and here we are.
Now personally I don’t think the Trump bandwagon is moving as fast as the Pundits say it is-especially since , in theory, Super Tuesday could change the balance. So too, could a late entry in California by Rmoney, trying to force a brokered convention.
But if Trump does become the Republican nominee, the party will have no one to blame but itself. They created this monster, starting in 2008 when Caribou Barbie let her adoring fans get out of control, and no one in the Republican party had the decency to call them out as they thugs they were. Or again in 2009 when hordes of tea swilling freaks took over parks and other venues. Year after year it got worse.
And now the party elders are trying to pretend they had nothing to do with creating the mess.
Well, over in Israel, they know better. Chemi Shalev wrote in Haaretz today:
In the seven and a half years since they lost the White House in 2008, Republican leaders have been wary of their voters’ rage and have thus tried to stoke it in their favor. With the assistance of the all-powerful broadcasters of right-wing media, they have savaged the evil administration, stirred resentment, incited against minorities and immigrants and portrayed an enfeebled America that has been brought to its knees. They poured more and more fuel on the fire, until Donald Trump came in to spread the flames, in their direction as well. Dumbstruck, they are now helpless as he burns down their house.
And now it would appear, like Doctor Frankenstein, they are upset that the monster escaped the laboratory:
But the voters’ wrath isn’t directed only at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, but at their own party leaders as well. They want fresh blood, someone new, an “outsider,” as the polls phrase it. Trump promises them to stick it to one and all, with no holds barred, and they, like the children of Hamelin, follow his tune in ever increasing numbers.
Trump handily broke the 35 percent ceiling that experts had imposed on him, based on his previous performances, and reached 45 percent instead. He beat Marco Rubio by a whopping twenty points, in the fourth consecutive state that the so-called savior Florida senator has now lost. Republican bigwigs who had been pressing Ohio Governor John Kasich to suspend his campaign in order to join forces with Rubio against Trump could have saved their breath: based on Tuesday’s results, it wouldn’t have made the slightest difference.
Cruz, who was once again losing his fight with Rubio over second place, was in an even greater bind in advance of next week’s Super Tuesday battle royale. Cruz, whose position as the GOP’s angry prophet has been usurped by Trump’s all-out tirades, had hoped to win at least a few of Southern Evangelical states that are participating in next week’s face-off. Now Trump’s momentum is threatening to erase Cruz’s lead in his home state of Texas as well. That’s a blow from which he would not recover.
I genuiely fear I watching the democracy of America self-destruct right in front of me.Six years ago I wrote a post based on an article in the New York Book Review that pointed out :
Americans have not caught up yet with the changes that are going on in the world. They are too slow-witted, for the most part, to recognize them. The 20% or so of us who do recognize it-are castigated for having the gall to point it out. As I have pointed out before, the Tea Bag revolution bears little resemblance to the American revolution and a lot of resemblance to the French one.
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