Donald Trump Represents Republicans’ Baser Feelings

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Donald Trump Represents Republicans’ Baser Feelings

by RICH LOWRY June 3, 2016 12:00 AM
Trump drags down the Right to its lowest common denominator. Even Donald Trump’s defenders on the Right are hard-pressed to argue that he is conservative. He is, nonetheless, a kind of conservative dream candidate. Few politicians in memory have so powerfully tapped into and expressed the conservative id, which has long yearned for a Republican politician willing to heap the verbal abuse on the Clintons and, especially, on the media that they so manifestly deserve.

Except on cable and talk radio, the conservative id tends to get smothered by the hated Republican superego, i.e., “the establishment” of campaign consultants, donors, and opinion-makers who worry about things like propriety and scaring off swing voters.

 

Since Trump has no superego keeping him in check — he doesn’t care about the political rules or personal manners — he can unleash unbridled hell on “Crooked Hillary” and the dishonest media.

At a news conference about the money he raised for veterans groups at an Iowa event earlier this year, Trump called one reporter “a sleaze” and another “a real beauty” (it wasn’t a compliment). He displayed a smash-mouth disregard for the assembled media horde that is deeply satisfying for every Republican who wishes a Bush, McCain, or Romney had done the same.