The GOP base is finally coming out of its economic superiority stupor and focusing on the only issue that has broad appeal to Americans: Law and order. Whether looking out at America's collapsing boundaries of global influence or within at the pending domestic suicide of our cultural, judicial and economic hegemony, chaos is brewing in a cauldron of lawlessness.
Americans apparently have, at the eleventh hour, subliminally realized the United States can no longer afford to elect a commander-in-chief who will not resolutely defend America's national sovereignty. Thus we find, to our surprise, that the ever flamboyant, over-the-top billionaire businessman Donald Trump is in a position to win the 2016 presidential race.
Trump, for his part, clearly lacks the necessary military experience in the geopolitical arena to be given carte blanche trust to execute the correct strategies to protect American interests. However, given the inexperience of the governors and congressmen posing for the GOP nomination, Trump hardly appears an irrational choice.
The language of international development is not foreign to Trump and, to be fair, in command control economies, big business and government are synonymous. America could do, and has done (e.g., Obama, Bush, Clinton, Carter) worse in electing a leader who now must deal with global economic strategic planning.
For a decade now, American response to this pyramid of cataclysmic international advances, designed solely to reduce American influence, its economy, and currency value has been a vacuous moral and
military handoff by the Obama team to future generations. Incredibly, the untold consequences of this cowardly,
lead from behind position have been exacerbated at home by borders that remain ludicrously porous and heavily infiltrated by foreign agents.
Trump improves his position mightily by highlighting intentionally ineffectual, despicable and laughable federal non-incursions to secure American borders. He is quite artful in describing how such activity borders on treason in a world where US military service men and women are
deployed around the globe, and even now actively engaged in combat in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Pakistan. Not to mention the President's Iraq policy that has led to the
ISIL slaughters, and likely, yet again, to balloon into another full-scale American-led conflagration.
Why are Trump's poll numbers continuing to increase, in the face of widespread
scorn and malice from the one trick pony modern media? A GOP that has done absolutely nothing to curb illegal citizenship, or the thousands that pour across our borders every week, cannot anymore be trusted. Americans know that inadequate background checks, conducted by a system overwhelmed by unskilled applicants from the Southern Hemisphere who seek legalized status, merely leads to a profusion of agents from truly evil empires, not to mention the purveyors of
espionage.
How has Trump leapfrogged past all the other Republican candidates? Trump has the unerring sense not to throw out at each stump speech yet another "we must secure the border
first" mantra. He makes it clear that the United States should never lend support to any immigration policy unless a preliminary finding is made that it is clearly in America's best interest.
One would think it was rocket science, as before Trump struck a chord with the American people, a ridiculous capitulation to the cries for the naturalization of millions of illegal aliens continued apace from each of the
Bush,
Walker,
Paul,
Cruz,
Kasich,
Graham,
Pataki, and
Perry camps.
Is it any wonder that an ever-growing and now sizeable number of registered Republicans do not trust politicians to prioritize security over the fortunes of a clamoring
Chamber of Commerce lobby?
Contrast the fragility of the nation's international posture, as outlined above, with the grossly naive actions of each of the other leading current Republican presidential contenders, only as recently as last month.
In the face of this administration's repeated diplomatic blundering,
Walker,
Rubio, Cruz, Graham and
Bush all somehow supported Obama's perhaps most pervasive power grab: a
fast track authority to unilaterally negotiate global trade agreements.
Despite the Administration's legal chicanery with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and
Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA), these presidential hopefuls gave de facto, wide support to secretive deals that will aggravate the ballooning
trade deficit and expand the jurisdiction of many incompetent, international bureaucrats.
Worse, myopically siding with the hopelessly foolish Congresswoman Pelosi, GOP candidates inconceivably continue to signal that they too remain comfortable green-lighting passage of very lengthy domestic and international binding agreements without studying hundreds of pages of government-speak. For example, we have yet to see -- by any GOP leader -- the much ballyhooed and previously promised
material review of 1000-page legislative disasters which will, literally, bankrupt America's next two generations.
By contrast, Trump's non-stop, strident rhetoric in defense of American interests has, thus far, appeared serious, authentic and consistent. He did
not support passage of TPP.
It is difficult to see Trump, esteemed dealmaker for more than a generation in the hallowed halls of billionaire business, failing to make even an hour cursory review of trade legislation designed to financially cripple hardworking American taxpayers, along with their children and grandchildren, before voting on it.
Domestic Suicide
On the home front, the legitimate, legal population has become
chronically under-employed.
Urban protests are on the rise, while
criminal foreigners continue to commit crime at truly astonishing rates. Americans are not free to roam in their own towns, big or small (i.e., Baltimore or Ferguson) without exercising due caution for their own personal safety. Political corruption in larger American
cities has become so widespread it merits not a scintilla of coverage by major media.
Meanwhile, on a weekly basis, the Obamas seek out whatever potential
racial divides might be observed to further exacerbate white/black and rich/poor tensions, apparently in the now fifty-year
Great Society goal of making minorities bedrock, lifetime Democratic voters who will not question a never-ending stream of truly lackluster cultural, economic, educational and family-destroying programs.
Hapless American
diplomacy, as put into play by inept politicians like Secretaries of State Clinton and Kerry over the past few years, has merely enhanced the influence of global crime-infested
gangs and cabals. These thugs, now running roughshod over Obama's lackeys, have spread their nefarious enterprises across what remains of America's once shining sea to shining sea.
Understandably panicked over their future economic and personal futures, millennials, women and disaffected conservative voters are presently fueling the bump in Trump's polling numbers.
Pew polls consistently show American women prefer the nanny state over any individual merit system via broad
social net policies, despite the obviously suicidal financial burden of
trillions of dollars of unfunded mandates. Yet there appears to be a sizeable slice of moderate to liberal-leaning women and
young professionals, traditionally Democrat voters, willing to now give up previously sacred social positions for the sake of a
more secure America.
Personal safety looms large as the ultimate care-taker issue for women.
Personal Sacrifice
Current GOP leaders will not, it is now evident, make any significant personal or constituency-based economic sacrifice to save America. The self-financed Trump has already demonstrated that he will.
Trump's willingness to write off business worth literally millions of dollars with companies as diverse as
ESPN, NASCAR,
Macy's, and
NBC underscore his profound emphasis upon putting Americans' interests first, striking a positive chord with an American electorate finally seeing some deviation from decades of an astoundingly selfish political climate.
There may still be
time for another GOP candidate, one who can project strength and confidence, to galvanize the base. In the middle of this realpolitik black hole that threatens America, GOP support, consolidated behind one high character professional, could reshape and positively reinforce the Republican's Party's traditional role as the protector of American security, if not its very way of life. The stakes cannot be overstated.
Short of this consolidation, however, it seems the most assured, aggressive candidate (i.e., Trump) is likely to continue dominating
GOP polls. Furthermore, Trump's triumphant-to-date media campaign to date might even be accelerated, as he will eventually reach out to solidify his base, suggest and select members of his
potential cabinet, while further defining/describing a cohesive and specific
political platform.
Given his almost meteoric rise in the polls since his
announcement in June, it would not be surprising to see Trump select a
ready to go Cabinet, comprised of non-politicians, accompanying him along the campaign trail.
In an effort to further leverage his business genius, Trump will move from rhetoric to a demonstration of his goal to hire only the best, and not necessarily the most politically connected individuals. Trump can find the reluctant politicians, those men and women widely respected amongst peers, who will gladly serve this nation.
The disastrous appointments of Clinton and Kerry (e.g., Benghazi, Iran nuclear
deal, illegal email servers, etc.) suggest Trump would do well to tap prospective Secretaries of State and Defense, perhaps as early as fall 2016. Robust, non-traditional men/women conversant with the current world stage, including someone able to deal in a real sense with potential military incursions by Russians and other aggressors would further enhance Trump's recent criticisms of Obama and his administration's giveaways of American sovereignty.
Times are far too turbulent around the world for yet another traditional
on the fence politician, lacking the resolve to do what is necessary to put America back on course. The GOP candidate, Trump or not, must be willing to savagely follow Russia's and China's lead by selecting high capacity and politically engaged leaders to prepare for global conflict.
Crushing Victory
Democratic strategists, over the past 50 years, have hardly been creative relative to presidential campaign tactics. Yet more rich/poor
bombast, contrasting their alleged concern/generosity for the less fortunate to the cold/greedy policies of the Republicans and
big business is to be expected again because it has delivered votes.
This economic tack should be resolutely defended this time around, preferably by a GOP candidate who can identify and easily contrast the true socialist record over the past century and whose sole intention is to make America great, on every front, throughout the 21st century.
The current slate of Republican candidates here in the summer of 2015, though as a whole they may be, in a truly conservative sense, demonstrably better than the one offered up for defeat by the GOP in 2012, are reminiscent of the hand-picked, party-approved, old-timer who has routinely sold out American culture, progress, safety and the economy to special-interest lobbies. Conservative, independent and moderate voters are
not excited about the prospect of nominating yet another two-week conservative politician backed by the big financiers of the GOP.
Trump at least seems to care that the buck truly does stop at his desk. Is it enough to win? Given Trump's track record of business triumphs, his encouragement of a
merit-based society, and a truly fearless defense of America in the face of Washington special interests, it seems possible.
American voters will not care one whit whether some of Trump's
business ventures declared bankruptcy, that he was previously
registered as a Democrat or that
his wife was born in Slovenia if, in the end, he is perceived as a champion of American culture, defense, jobs, and sovereignty.
Should he secure the GOP nomination, a tough-talking, competent Trump will likely crush a utopian, multicultural-loving Democrat. Americans now sense the danger in the world, be it economic or political, as well as American's dwindling role within it. Security will be of paramount concern, and Trump's continued shout-outs on this issue alone should make him tough to beat absent a truly impressive adversary -- who at this time does not appear to be waiting in the wings.