I keep hearing that Donald Trump is a billionaire real estate developer and somehow that makes him immune from outside political or financial influences seeking his support. Could someone explain how being a billionaire real estate developer dependent upon Wall Street bankers to finance his projects makes for political independence from those same self serving Wall Street bankers?
Every issue being debated has found Trump changing his position from earlier liberal positions. Once maybe, twice and it strains credulity, three times and it's an obvious cynical ploy to tap into and lead the fear and anger of people, many of which are fair weather Democrats and Independents, who are coming out to Trump campaign events. In the Iowa Republican caucuses a person has to be registered Republican in order to participate and vote. Will this be a barrier for Trump's cross over hopes? In 17 days we'll see whether this possible problem arose or not.
I don't know how others see this, but I don't want anything to do with a Democrat or a supposed Independent crossing over to vote in a Republican presidential primary for a demagogue spouting populist rhetoric. I don't need someone who has never served in the military or government at any level to give me a speech on nationalism and returning America to its roots of principled conservatism.
Trump is a master salesman and he has tapped into the political market his consumers are demanding. It didn't take a genius who wrote, "The Art of the Deal" to figure out that many Americans were living in fear and anger over what they see as a Republican Party mired in self serving elitism, where the primary principle seems to be to go along to get along, with all else be damned. The master salesman has cleverly and correctly tapped into this gold mine of emotional despair and barely contained anger seething among many voters. How many of these voters are substantial conservatives remains to be seen.
The problem with Trump, despite his life long liberal positions, which are completely contrary to conservative principles, is that he has all the intellectual depth and breadth of a rain puddle. If Trump knows anything, he knows how to sell people in the common and often crude language of the uneducated who have no understanding of the conservative foundation principles of politics and economics. Half of what Trump says is essentially incoherent. He admittedly does not prepare before debates or rallies. But what is worse, Trump does not even seem to actually want to do any studying of the issues confounding Americans and then develop detailed and comprehensive policies to address those concerns.
Basically, Trump is a "shoot from the lip" demagogue who chooses to forget about the inconvenient facts of his liberal past and hopes his supporters will also forget his liberal past. Trump's supporters are so desperate to see "change" that they have blindly placed all their "hope" in a man dangerously short on substance, but long on theatrical style and energy when on stage.
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