Trump: He Has the Right Foes

My Daddy taught me that having the right enemies is a good thing. If Vlad Putin would just repudiate me, then my Orthodox soul would rejoice, but sadly I have yet to achieve the importance and probably never will.

Donald Trump has no such problem. Our irritating, chattering, Democratic elite hate Donald Trump. Our impotent, smarmy, sycophantic Republican elite hate Donald Trump.

In fact, most Americans dislike Donald Trump with a passion reserved only for Vlad Putin. Since all have sinned, all the people who dislike the Donald have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, let alone a Trump casino.

And yet if having the right enemies was enough to make a good man, then Stalin was a good man, because Hitler hated him. Being disliked by loathsome folks is a good sign, but it is not enough. Sometimes bad people hate other bad people or mobs would never have boss fights.

In a way, Ted Cruz is right: why should I follow the media and pile on the Republican bash of the week? Why? Because, Donald Trump is no Republican, just as he is not a gentleman. I do not attack him because the media bids me, but because love of my Party demands it.

The party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan does not deserve a bankrupt bloviator.

Donald Trump is a bad husband, businessman, and Republican. He is a hypocrite who proclaims family values while ignoring them for himself. He was born rich, went broke, and leveraged government, family, and social contacts to rebuild. He is a self-made man in the same sense that a person born to Prince Charles is self-made: he was born in a palace and is proud of the fact that he still lives in a palace by the grace of his creditors. So far as I can tell, he is witless to the point of genius . . .  an idiot savant of political idiocy.

He is so clueless, rambling, and wrong that one is tempted to think he must mean something. Like paintings by elephants, surely a Trump speech must mean something. All those disconnected opinions must rise to at least a fact? Surely, he must have something to say? But there is nothing, nothing, under there. Nothing.

Donald Trump knows nothing about the issues he addresses. He lies. He uses falsehoods when he speaks about Mexicans. Sadly, our nation has not always treated Mexicans well. Read a good biography of Sam Houston and you will see that many Mexican heroes of San Jacinto received shoddy treatment from the Texas they helped birth. This is only an obvious example of the history of Anglo abuse of Mexicans, and Trump, probably through a stupid unreflective racism more than real malice, picks the scab.

Sam Houston would horsewhip Donald Trump as a cad and poltroon, but Sam Houston is not around to do the job.

Donald Trump will not win the nomination of Lincoln’s party. He is getting the cheap poll attention of good people fed up with lies. In that sense, his “surge” is like the attention given to the much more serious Bernie Sanders. Sanders isn’t bought and paid for and people like this fact. Trump has been bought and paid for so many times that he too seems free of graft.

Bernie Sanders is innocent of economic knowledge, while Trump hires economic knowledge to make money for Trump. Neither characteristic fits the men for the Oval Office, but at least they are not carefully reading lines like Clinton while collecting graft or spewing poll tested talking points like too many Republican contenders.

Is there an authentic person in the bunch? Trump is so fake that his bombast and fakery no longer matters. He gives money to Democrats, lives like a libertine, but suddenly is a born-again Republican. He is as conservative as he is hirsute, but he is so obviously neither that it is almost amusing.

Almost.

Somethings are not entertaining and feeding the beast of racism, the original American sin, in a nation where black churches are burning is not funny. Greece is dying. ISIS is growing. Marriage is becoming the domain of the rich and the educated while a toxic culture and poverty make marriage harder for the poor.

And the GOP tolerates Trump? There is no room on our debate stage for a man who would give Dr. Carson nothing on which to operate. We have no need to boost the ego of man who will never be President, because Dadaism is not true of the cosmos.

So I praise Donald Trump for his enemies, but urge my fellow Republicans to reject him for himself. In office, he would exclude the right people except for one: the man sitting in the Oval Office.