The Chord Donald Trump Strikes
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
AmericanThinker.com
So, dear readers, what's the matter with
Donald Trump? Well, apparently, just about
everything.
According to everyone who's anyone
in the entire Country, on every stage, from
both sides of the aisle, in every news
outlet, from every prominent mouth this side
of Timbuktu, Donald Trump has no
business whatsoever even considering a
presidential run.
Why, the nerve of this Donald Trump! It's
positively galling. It's The Audacity
of Hope on steroids. It's a national
embarrassment, I tell you.
So there.
As President Eloquent himself might opine --
with drooling faux sophistication, no doubt
-- Donald Trump certainly has the whole
commentariat class all "wee-weed
up."
Honestly, I don't think I've seen this many
oh-so-prestigious people wet their pants
since Romper Room went off the air.
Trump's a "clown," a "joke candidate," a
"vulgarity," and the "Al Sharpton of the
Republican Party." Trump's just throwing a
"publicity stunt." Trump is a "sideshow."
Trump is making everyone who's anyone
"somewhat uncomfortable."
But, wait, it gets better. According to
Glenn Beck's new author sidekick,
Dr. Head-Shrink Albow,
Trump's candidacy could be "psychologically
debilitating for the American people." Now
folks, even the most sophisticated among you
must admit that's rich. That's pushing the
we-prominent-people-know-what's-good-for-you
envelope just a bit far for me to stomach
without a barf bag.
So, please allow me to enlighten the
oh-so-sophisticated crowd.
Donald Trump is striking all-American chords
during an anti-American presidency, and the
supposedly very smart people don't get
that? Oh, I think they do get it, but are
scared down to their little woolies over
what national calamities might ensue if The
Donald is "allowed" to continue
rattling
the presidential goal posts.
Sentient observers have known since Election
Day 2008 that Barack Obama is the pinnacle
affirmative-action statement. Mickey Kaus
finally came right out and said this in the
Daily Caller,
while parrying
Jay Cost's column
on Obama's outright failure at American
politics:
Cost doesn't go into why Obama
managed to get to the top of
politics without being all that good at
it. The answer is distressingly obvious:
Obama's the biggest affirmative
action baby in
history.
When other pols are trying, failing,
learning, while climbing up the middle
rungs of the ladder, he got a pass.
Well, of course, he got a pass. Actually
Obama got far more than a pass. He was
allowed by an ideologically-driven,
white-guilt-motivated media to hop, skip,
and jump his way to the pinnacle of world
power without ever producing one single
shred of verifiable evidence that he could
do anything whatsoever but run his
full-of-utter-BS mouth -- even that,
constantly enabled by a teleprompter. And
Republicans winked and nodded and permitted
the whole Orwellian spectacle due to their
fear of being forever outcast as racists.
Now, in any real world, that is not just
affirmative action, folks. That's rolling
the dice on the future of civilization,
which is exactly what
Bill Clinton
told them it would be. Clinton made this
prescient observation in 2007, long before
the
current die
was cast.
The whole 2008 election is being experienced
by the vast American middle-class as a huge,
cruel joke, one that has dire consequences
to our standard of living and our standing
in the world. But the media elites on both
sides of the aisle seem to believe that
having turned American politics into a joke
of a fools' parade, they can now somehow
bring the whole thing back to a level of
respectability by circling the wagons around
Barack Obama and uniformly denouncing the
guy now
rattling the cage
with increasing popularity.
One thing the political class seems to have
forgotten is that there are few living white
Americans who have not had some personal
experience with an affirmative-action
co-worker and/or collegiate peer. For
decades now, we Mainstreet dwellers have
borne the brunt of this liberal
two-wrongs-really-can-make-a-right folderol,
and now we stand, mouths agape at those who
still pretend this isn't what happened in
2008.
Awarding the pinnacle of world power to a
guy on the basis of eternally-aggrieved skin
color is quintessentially anti-American and
the people know it. It was playing with
fire and we're getting burned. The people
know this. The people are saying it in
private.
Black voters are saying it, too. They own
small
businesses and pay income
taxes
and raise families and go to church every
Sunday and are not the one-size-fits-all
underclass herd imagined by the
condescendingly-racist
liberal media. Congressman
Allen West
says it best.
Those who honestly believe they can squelch
the people's demand to know all the things
hidden until now by this cosmic-joke
president are just whistling Dixie and
whizzing in the wind -- which does not
really strike me as intelligent.
The truth will out eventually. And mounting
this wholly anti-American gambit of shaming
those seeking the verification, which was so
childishly foregone by the media "verifiers"
in 2008, is itself anti-American. Trump
strikes this chord among the people with
pure aplomb.
Secondly, there is Trump's unabashed
America-first barrage.
Trump's resonance has far less to do with
his actual ideas than with his
stand-up-straight pride of our Country, and
his willingness to say "America First!"
loudly, proudly, and without an ounce of
apology.
At the very least, Trump does seem to
realize that our Republic is genuinely on
the line. He seems to understand that the
affirmative-action presidency may have
temporarily made Americans feel better about
themselves, but that it has been very
destructive for our economy and for the
overall safety of the entire world. Trump
may have outside-the-box ideas for how to
reestablish America's preeminence after the
American-apology presidency, but people have
the sense that outlying bad guys would be
really scared of what Trump might do if his
crazy finger were on the nuke buttons. And
they know that bad guys scared of you are
better than bad guys running roughshod over
you.
Trump has done one thing that no other
presidential contender has, in my
oh-so-humble opinion. He has tapped into
decades of pent-up frustration among the
vast middle-class of the taxpaying public.
Among the businessmen I know -- most of them
socially liberal, but fiscally conservative
-- Trump's willingness to talk straight is
striking a genuine chord. These men
identify with Donald Trump on what seems a
quite visceral level. They, too, have
forged similar, albeit smaller, paths
through America's growing quagmire of
federal regulations and strangleholds on
entrepreneurs. These men have grown sick
and tired
of seeing
metrosexual foreign policy
(Peter Schweizer's brilliant phrase)
that leaves them holding the bag on expense,
but getting sucker-punched by nations
they've
financed. They are fed up with
hearing how greedy and unfair they are,
after giving so much of their incomes to
alleviate the pain of the lower
classes.
As those who actually pay the government
bills and create more than half of all the
jobs in this country,
small-business owners hear Donald
Trump's willingness to declare that our
mealy-mouthed politicians have made us the
"laughingstock"
of the world and cheer him on. They've
believed this for ages now, but have been
denied the public platform to say so.
Which brings us to another all-American
chord Trump is striking with pure agility.
Trump is in-your-face, unapologetically and
aggressively manly. Even the ridiculous,
vanity-inspired comb-over seems to shout "I
couldn't care less what you think of me."
This itself strikes a welcome off-tune macho
chord in a political-class orchestra playing
in pure metrosexual harmony.
Trump is giving voice to the all-male side
of our collective American psyche. Our
John-Wayne genes have been shoved into an
outlying corner of socially-unacceptable
shame for a long time now. Despite G.W.
Bush's being labeled the "cowboy," his
collegiate style was anything but pure
macho.
Trump has brought one heck-of-a-lot of
yang into this all-yin
modern political class. And believe it or
not, most Americans prefer their presidents
to be somewhat more pit-bull or mama grizzly
than likeable lapdog -- especially in
perilous times. General Patton is still
beloved in the heartland.
Love him or hate him, Trump's style is
hitting a huge nerve among a
had-it-up-to-here public.
Those who refuse to read the angry American
tea leaves, at this point, ought be called
anything but "smart."
Ignore this reality to your peril,
Republican and Democrat hot-shots. You're
starting to look like King George, and we
all know how that one unfolded.
Kyle-Anne Shiver is an independent
citizen journalist and frequent contributor
to American Thinker and Pajamas Media. She
welcomes your comments at
www.kyleanneshiver.com.