Getting Over the Trump Hump

Trump on the Stump .. Poster courtesy of Wikipedia

by Trebor Snillor
TODAY

Today is one of the 4 days a year where Dallas has pleasant sidewalk café weather. There was no parking at White Rock, and Starbucks is full to capacity indoors and out. Yes I’m loving it!

TRUMP

Enough of the idle chit chat – let’s talk about the elephant in the room, our leading GOP candidate Donald Trump. This loud, bombastic titan of all that is golf courses and beauty pageants has somehow risen to a poll number of 32% in a field of 16 GOP candidates. Like columnist George Will, I’m appalled by this development. I’m reminded of the 2006 movie Idiocracy where a rapper and former porn star becomes President.

If I had to name a public figure who Trump most calls to mind it would be Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Both men are ego-centric, crude, macho demagogues. Trump would have to operate within the limits of Constitutional law thank goodness. Putin has no such boundary to observe in Moscow. Of course, when Adolph Hitler became Germany’s chancellor, all of their Democratic protections became debatable – something to place on the bargaining table. That’s something for America to consider as we choose a President the same way we would choose a Reality show contestant.

I will absolutely admit – Trump is entertaining and interesting to watch. He can be a laugh riot. He reminds me of my cousin-in-law who tells hilarious yarns, and also thinks black people should be shipped back to Africa. That man is funny in his local, yokel salesman kind of way. He should NEVER be President, or be in any position that determines social policy. Dodge that bullet now.

Donald Trump made his biggest impact in June, when he said he would “round up all the illegals and send them back to Mexico”. He would also build a “Great Wall” to stop the influx of more illegals. The full implementation of these things would cost a national fortune and create a police state .. the impracticality is as monumental as the proposed Trump Wall itself. Other GOP candidates have been forced into a game of xenophobe leap-frog. Scott Walker has now proposed a wall along the Canadian border.

Trump has potential to be a wrecking ball to the GOP as well as the Democratic process. Much like the bamboozled denizens of Venezuela – we will get the banana republic of our choosing. Irony there – in the fact that so many Americans harbor racist feelings toward Hispanics. We stand a good chance of importing their type of governance – a governance that makes the governed people seek escape from corruption, scandal and brute force heavy-handedness.

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