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Why Trump? : An Ongoing Series

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The Washington Post had a lengthy editorial yesterday proclaiming how Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy.  Go here to read it.  Of course the Washington Post never ran anything like this until Trump was safely the standard bearer of the Republican Party, a party the Washington Post opposes.  Leaving aside the nauseating and blatant partisanship, some of the criticisms in the editorial are valid and they echo some of the critiques of Trump that I have made.  They never, however, in their condemnation stop to ask themselves a simple question:  Why Trump?  How has Trump become the Republican nominee for President and why does he stand a good chance of becoming President?  If they asked themselves the question a truthful answer would be an uncomfortable one.  The reason for the rise of Trump is because so many leaders in the West, in all walks of life, have acted like fools, lunatics and worse,  manifestly pushing policies that cannot succeed and failing to take reality into account, which has become a hallmark of Western leadership and thought over the past quarter century.

Raymond Ibrahim has a fine example of this at PJ Media in regard to Islam:

When it comes to the connection between Islam and violence against non-Muslims, one fact must be understood: the majority of those in positions of leadership and authority in the West are either liars or fools, or both.

No other alternative exists.

The reason for this uncharitable assertion is simple: If Islam was once a faraway, exotic religion, today we hear calls for, and see acts of, violence committed in its name every day. And many of us still have “ears that hear and eyes that see,” so it’s no secret: Muslims from all around the world and from all walks of life — not just “terrorists” or “ISIS” — unequivocally and unapologetically proclaim that Islam commands them to hate, subjugate, and kill all who resist it, including all non-Muslims.

This is the official position of several Muslim governments, including America’s closest “friends and allies” like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Is the official position of Islamic institutions of lower and higher learning: from Bangladeshi high schools to Egypt’s Al Azhar, the world’s most prestigious Islamic university.

It’s the official position broadcast in numerous languages on Islamic satellite stations that air in Muslim homes around the world.

In short, there’s no excuse today for anyone to still be ignorant about Islam, and especially for those in positions of leadership or authority. Yet it is precisely this group that most vehemently denies any connection between Islam and violence.

Why?

On July 18 in Germany, an axe-waving Muslim refugee attacked a number of train passengers and critically injured three. Although an ISIS flag was found in his room, although he called for the slaughter of any Muslim who dares leave Islam, although he yelled “Allahu Akbar” — Islam’s unequivocal war cry — authorities claimed “it was too early to speculate about the motives of the attacker.”

Catholic Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann of Wuerzburg, where the axe attack took place, was bewildered: “One is speechless at such a moment. This fact can not be understood.”

Instead of being vigilant around Muslim migrants, he said: “Maybe we need to help the unaccompanied young refugees even more and help them to overcome their own traumas.”

About a month earlier in Germany, this same scene played out. While screaming “Allahu Akbar” and “infidels must die,” another Muslim man in another train station stabbed to death one man and injured three others. Still, German authorities “found no evidence of Islamist motive.”

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Turning to the United States, one finds the same pattern. Most recently, a Muslim man entered a gay nightclub in Orlando and killed 49. Despite the fact that ISIS regularly kills homosexuals and that the killer — who “recited prayers to Allah during the attack” — pledged his allegiance to ISIS, “Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the investigation is still ongoing, and a motive has yet to be established,” while “the FBI was confused about [his] motive.”

 

Go here to read the rest.  Most people are not idiots.  They realize that in regard to Islam their leaders are pushing lies and refuse to take any effective steps against a growing threat, striking randomly and murderously at will.  Instead they push insane policies that bring ever more followers of Islam to our shores.

Trump has a growing following because he states in many cases what people know to be true and what most people in positions of authority would sooner eat ground glass than admit, due to political agendas that place the safety of the people they purport to lead as a low priority.   Trump at least recognizes the problem, even if his solutions are often ill thought out and sometimes irrational.  It is said that nature abhors a vacuum.  Human leadership works the same way.  When leaders clearly are incompetent at best, perhaps  much worse than that, it is no wonder that in desperation people turn to other would be leaders to take their place.  If the Washington Post and other opinion shapers in the West are concerned about Trump, they only need look at the fashionable lies they peddle in service of wretched leaders to grasp why Trump is suddenly no longer a bad joke.

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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 5:51am

I may vote for Trump only to hear the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth from liberal progressive Democrays as he wins tge election, and then I will say, “You respect this President just as you wanted your President respected.”

Penguin Fan
Penguin Fan
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 8:01am

The Washington Post has always been the mouthpiece of the Democrat Party. They like Republicans who are cowards and bend to the will of the Democrat Party….and then only on certain days of the week. People with functioning cranial tissue know that the Post is garbage.
So Trump is the greatest threat to democracy….we don’t have a democracy…we have a representative republic that is increasingly submissive to the appointed judiciary and the unelected bureaucracy.
Trump didn’t have a personal server and a personal email account to handle classified information, nor did he commit the crimes of the Clintons.
Save your brain. Ignore the Compost.

Brian
Brian
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 8:43am

TAC: “The reason for the rise of Trump is because so many leaders in the West, in all walks of life, have acted like fools, lunatics and worse, manifestly pushing policies that cannot succeed .”

This is only true if our Western leaders are guided by the same Light that has always guided us; the principles underlying Western civilization rooted in our Judaeo-Christian heritage. Then none of it makes sense. It is all mind-bendingly stupid. But, that may not be the case. It is becoming evident to me, and not just in politics, that we live in a transformative time in which the global elite, religious as well as political, have turned their backs on Nation-States, like America, and advance the cause more congenial to their vision of things: One World Government.

I no longer see American politics as a paradigm of conservative-liberal differences, an R-D binary, over a shared vision of the American Dream, based on a Constitutional framework and inspired by our Declaration of Independence. I see it much more cynically now, oriented on “both sides of the aisle” toward a yet unexplained and vaguely defined path toward one world rule. Many, including members of the Supreme Court, believe and share this openly.

I agree with Penguin Fan, perhaps for different reasons, to ignore the comPost. I think their outrage is feigned and meaningless. Now they are simply speaking to their base. They have the two candidates they wanted. They cannot lose. Either way, our nation will be run by full-throated Statists.

P.S. to all those who think Trump will “Make America Great Again”. I don’t believe him. I’ve seen too many lies over the years to distrust my instincts. He is not going to build the wall. He is not going to make America truly great by advancing the cause of classic Constitutional Liberty. Trump is a Statist. That is what he and Hillary both brings to the “League of Nations”.

Ken
Ken
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 11:52am

I believe one of the things that may help Trump win this election is the manner in which the establishment has kept their distance. Imagine the revulsion of many in the grassroots at seeing Trump hamming it up at the convention with McCain/Bush/Cheney.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 12:53pm

. Trump’s ability to blow this chance however remains jurassic if he returns again and again to the micro important…arguing with Cruz, dissing the Judge in his University case, bantering with Pochahantas/ Warren in media or on twitter. He has to stay herein on the macro issues and I doubt he will. Ivanka does not seem truthful enough to warn him yet he would listen to her if she challenged him. But her “defender of family” speech was delusional….which of his three families was he defending.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 2:44pm

Brevity is the soul of wit.
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The Donald is not Hillary.
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I am fairly certain that Jeb, McCain or Romney wouldn’t ask how many (two?) of her gestational/unborn babies (abortions) Hillary murdered – womens’ health care. Trump may.

Ken
Ken
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 3:01pm

Bill,

I really don’t think the average Trump voter cares about the macro issues. They love when he dishes insults. Soundbites when elections. Policy comes from wonks who are seldom seen on tv. Hope and change contained no policy, but filled young people, minorities and single women with warm feelings.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 3:16pm

Ken…I would disagree except that I’m having Moscato chilled with a shrimp salad sandwich on a hot day which means I’ll agree with everyone until 6:30 Eastern time.

Guy McClung
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Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 8:37pm

If Trump does not get 60% of the “catholic vote”, he will lose. He can only do this by 1. making it clear to America that, if President Hillary dies, the President will be a roman catholic – sorry but there are millions who will vote contra-catholic, even contra a prodeathproabort “catholic” democrat [never mind that he is a heretic and worse]; and 2. no catholic with a well-=formed conscience can vote for Hillary-to do so would be a mortal sin [unrepentent = go to hell forever sin]. And Trump shouds play up liberal catholic theologians silence on RETA -racial eugenic targeted abortion and the democrat role in black genocide and brown genocide. [google “theological silence” and RETA]. Guy McClung, San Atnonio Texas
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Brian
Brian
Sunday, July 24, AD 2016 10:13pm

T. Shaw,

The Donald is not Ted

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, July 25, AD 2016 5:27am

Brian,
Ted who?

John C. Wright
Monday, July 25, AD 2016 7:51am

“Trump’s ability to blow this chance however remains jurassic if he returns again and again to the micro important…arguing with Cruz, dissing the Judge in his University case, bantering with Pochahantas/ Warren in media or on twitter. ”

The problem with a false model of the universe it that it renders you unable to think about certain problems, nay, unable to see certain problems at all, so that one never realizes that they exist to think about or avoid thinking about.

In this case, few or no Trump supporters give a tinker’s damn about whether he argues with Cruz, Warren, or a Judge in California, as Trump supporters see all three as part of the Establishment and hence part of the problem Trump promises to solve.

The fact that you see his arguing with Establishment figures argues that you do not even see the problem for which a Trump administration is a proposed solution , hence you focus on nonessentials, hence you come to a conclusion that is not merely wrong, but entirely disconnected from reality.

Your picture of what is going on is wrong at a basic level. Rethink your premises.

David Spaulding
David Spaulding
Monday, July 25, AD 2016 10:20am

I agree with all you have written and add only that WaPo expressed no concern for the Separation of Powers under Bush or Obama, no interest in extrajudicial killings by our government, no understanding or willingness to engage on the deposing of governments that the connection between that and the rise of militant Jihadi groups, and no distaste for the profound disrespect for law that this administration and Secretary of State Clinton display.

Up until now, the Washington Post has been uninterested in fitness for office. I think I shall be forgiven for being unwilling to trust their motives in their present condemnation.

Brian
Brian
Monday, July 25, AD 2016 10:05pm

T.Shaw, Thanks for proving my point. Trump is a dagger to the heart of conservatism.

The most consistent, coherently articulate conservative in politics was run out of the GOP convention and thrown into the street on his ass. In favor of a Statist liberal. Jeers and sneers is all he gets.

The standard bearer of conservatism is now a liberal. We are to follow him wherever he goeth. Thus says Rush.

The articulate conservative is finished; washed up. Shamed.

Ted who?

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