I'm curious why people believe Trump isn't part of the establishment...
He's marketed that way - and in 2016, thats where the market is at. It doesn't matter that its utter bullshit.
Combine this with the fact that when things go awry people
want to believe in the strongman. A saviour, a father. A rock star. Something other. Anything.
Servility - it makes my skin crawl.
Speaking for myself (but clearly a lot of other people feel the same way) the biggest question in my mind is whether Trump is a fraud. That was the first focus of my exploration of the guy and it remains the most important thing to me.
When I first started trying to understand the guy, I thought that his positions on various things were a lot worse than I found them to be in reality. This because the little bits of info that filtered in at random were overly puffed up by his detractors.
From early on I had been exposed to the theory that he was running a choke campaign to eventually install Clinton. Being drawn to such theories, I gave it weight and put it on my list of things to look for when I got around to paying attention to the candidates. I continue to hold it open as a theory, but I don't see a lot of evidence for it and see some to the contrary. A modification of this theory is that he started out to help Hillary then realized he himself could win and is going for it, and he does seems to be as serious as a heart attack about wining now. Yet another modification is that it's a win/win for him in that it makes his 'Trump brand' more valuable even if he loses. I think he himself has even admitted to this one.
One metric I use in trying to figure out if someone is for real is to use the 'what would I do' standard. If I could see myself saying and doing something in certain situations, I don't rule out that someone else might also. I think that if I were very wealthy and skilled and enjoyed doing 'con-man' stuff, I might run for president and I if I ran, I would run to win. The reason I would would be exclusively to 'save the country' and I do agree that it is nearing the point of destruction in the way and for the reasons that Trump and Carson try to describe. Thus, I don't think it is impossible that people with the same basic instincts would crawl out of the woodwork.
All votes for any candidate are to me a 'hail Mary' strategy. Complicating this, I've thought many candidates I supported were OK all the way through and beyond their tenure only to conclude later in the study of history that I was wrong. At this point, I'm of the opinion that Trump is the best example of a 'high risk, high reward' candidate. I'm inclined to take that chance mostly since we as a nation are so close to annihilation anyway and it is a near certainty that almost every other candidate will march us in that direction quick-time.
Put another way, Trump is like Bitcoin to me. 'High risk, high reward', with the odds of successes, while being low, not as low as some people think for some underlying technical reasons.
Looks like your going to be having a civil war if trump wins the white house.
That is certainly looking how it might well pan out from where I'm sat.
Donald Trump could create trouble in a graveyard - and the heady rhetoric will have to have meat put on its propogandist bones at some point, most likely when the shit hits the fan.
With some exceptions, WHAT Trump has said has been inflammatory mostly because the political correctness has become so absurd. HOW he said it is a different matter, but he can change
how he says
what he says on a dime because he truly is a showman/con-man (among other things.)