What is it about Trump supporters that they can't seem to see the similarities between Trump and Obama? Obama's campaigns centered around the ephemeral promise of "Hope and Change" with absolutely no substantive policies advanced on any issues important to Americans. Just as Obama played the class warfare card, Trump is playing the populist who will lead his followers and America to a better place by the strength of his personality, salesmanship and negotiations skills. If Trump has such great negotiating and salesmanship skills, why does he have to assassinate the character of his GOP opponents, rather than laying out his differences with them and his solutions on all the major issues he feels they fall short on?
Fast forward to Donald Trump's signature campaign slogan: "Make America Great Again". Again, no substance, but plenty of Trump's style of campaign chaos, bravado, buffoonery and brutal confrontations aimed at destroying the other GOP candidates. Do any of Trump's supporters actually understand what he is all about? At his core, Trump is a real estate salesman, a self promoter and an entertainment impresario of "The Aprrentice." Trump understands how to play people and their emotions and he is quite good at.
Obviously, those Trump supporters, who profess to be conservatives of one kind or another, have no idea what it means to be a constitutional conservative, since Trump has promised to do a host of things that are blatantly unconstitutional. Even as legal experts call out Trump for his obvious misunderstandings and misstatements of his more radical proposals that are unconstitutional, his supporters simply ignore those experts and call their comments "hit pieces" on Trump. Trump supporters seem to fail to understand the difference between hit pieces and legitimate legal differences and understandings of constitutional interpretations or foreign policy positions.
I understand the anger and frustration of many Americans. but anger is an emotion that can lead to bad outcomes when it controls a person's decision making process. Anger isn't a political strategy for those who actually understand what is at play in the GOP presidential nomination process. Burning down the GOP to rid it of the rats will only lead to continued liberal domination of the political process going forward.
Trump supporters seem to glibly gloss over the lack of serious substance in Trump's addressing the important issues facing America. To Trump supporters it's all about how Trump "says what he means and means what he says." The problem with that thought is that what Trump says often seems to have a shelf life of less than 24 hours before he either back tracks to some degree or he has to modify and explain what he has said the day before. So how do Trump supporters rationalize or justify this Trump behavior? They don't. They just say it's part of Trump's persona to keep his opponents off balance.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to follow a personality cult.
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