The Rise of Donald Trump

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Published on March 26, 2016

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The Rise of Donald Trump

written by Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard

 

Since early February, Donald J. Trump, a brash and boorish businessman with a spotted past and tenuous fidelity to American conservatism, has dominated the Republican primaries, winning victories across states as disparate as Vermont, Hawaii, and Alabama. His opponents and much of the GOP establishment argue that he is vulgar, ignorant, and xenophobic—a comically stupid and coarse would-be Fascist who has no place in American politics. But to his many fervent supporters, these criticisms are at best irrelevant; at worst, they demonstrate the supercilious despair of the establishment and add to Trump’s outsider appeal. In the face of such denunciations from the powers that be, Trump keeps winning. At the ballot box—winning. On television—winning. In Twitter battles—winning. And the polls suggest he will keep winning so long as his rivals remain divided.

 

To some, his rise is evidence of the racism that hides beneath the veneer of polite society in America. Certainly, he has voiced some disconcerting opinions; and he has aroused the support of some unsavory political figures. Quite possibly he is, in fact, bigoted. But the real source of his appeal, we believe, lies in the refuse of postindustrial America where the White working class struggles for esteem in a rapidly changing, multicultural society.

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Dirt And Dirter

By Steve Berman | March 26, 2016, 09:00am

This is a family website, so I couldn’t go with the headline I really wanted, which is #TrumpLovesPecker. The genesis of such a beautifully yin-yang, karmic hashtag is just desserts for Donald Trump and his army of basement-dwelling twitiots.

 

(Did you notice that? I invented two words so far: “dirter” and “twitiots.” If I was Jonah Goldberg, The Couch would fall over dead.)

 

Levity aside–after all today is Holy Saturday, the day after Good Friday and before Resurrection Sunday–the Trump/Cruz battle is headed for the cake topper of dirty, nasty low-flying campaigns.

http://theresurgent.com/dirt-and-dirter/