Seventy-year old Donald Trump is in the midst of his backward aging. Like the character Benjamin Button, from the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Trump was apparently born with a complete mastery of speech. Just ask him he will tell you, “I know words, I have the best words.” Unlike Benjamin, Trump on multiple occasions squandered his Daddy’s money and bankrupted his own business interest, reportedly at least four times.
So in his late fifties Trump sped up the process and regressed to a 20-year old frat boy. From the moment we heard his repartee with Billy Bush on the Access Hollywood bus, we have all been dragged further into the depths of his campaign. Poor Kellyanne Conway has become his Hildegarde Moncrief, ignorant of his past or present, apparently, and is content with ruining a reputation she has built as a pollster for 25 years.
Donald has resorted to flinging the contents of his potty mouth all over America in the worse temper tantrum I have seen since my oldest son was 2 and broke his favorite Lego. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the old frat boys are back together, Rudy, Newt and Donald. Collectively nine marriages, hypocrisy and public infidelity. Rudy announced the dissolution of his marriage in a press conference, allegedly unbeknownst to his wife. Newt Gingrich literally left his marriage with his wife in her sick bed and wouldn’t we all like to know what is in the non-disclosure settlements with Mr. Trump’s ex-wives, talk about juicy e-mails.
The past few paragraphs are an example of how quickly and easily it is, to be distracted from issues and wallow in the mud.
So let’s discuss the issues Donald Trump has elucidated with facts and numbers in the past six months, ummm, ehhhh, well uhhh…. Okay I am asking for help, I cannot think of one reasoned proposal that is not laden with silly hyperbole, screeching accusations and just plain nonsense.
He is going to build a two-thousand-mile-long border wall and extort Mexico into paying for it, his 33, 25 and 12 percent, no regulation, across the board tax plan with a 15 percent top tax rate for corporations would be a repeat of the Bush plan on steroids and could possibly send the world into a tailspin that this time we may not recover. For his followers whose constant clamor is for redress from supporting the moochers and takers, they would be signing up for the biggest wealthfare plan in our nation’s history.
He wants Stop and Frisk, already deemed un-Constitutional, he whines about election rigging, in the last 1 billion recorded votes in the US, only 31 cases of voter impersonation have ever been detected and less than ten of those prosecuted. This is the text book definition of a straw man argument. Immigration is currently at a net zero. Violent crime as reported by Mike Weisser a gun shop owner, now hated by the right-wing, and columnist for the Huffington Post dropped 48 percent from 1993 to 2012.
Donald Trump continues to describe minority communities as relentless hellscapes with no remedy but through him; his comprehensive selling point, “what have you got to lose?” In the words of President Barack Obama “EVERYTHING.”
Vote 2016!