Way back in 2015, when the rumors began to circulate about Donald Trump running for president, rumors we had heard for decades, I was shocked at how many “smart people” — those snobs I enjoy heckling as “#GOPSmartSet” — underestimated The Donald.
Shrugging off the idea Trump would actually run was fair enough. Like I said, he’d been flirting with the idea for decades. Even I would have bet it was a publicity stunt.
No, what surprised me was how #GOPSmartSet and the elite media laughed off Trump as a clown, a huckster, a carnival barker, and bankrupt loser. That, to me, was wholly ridiculous.
To begin with, Trump was in his fourth decade of pop culture relevance. Other than Oprah, how many Americans have remained relevant since the eighties, are more than a nostalgia act today?
On top of that, Trump was not only a potent brand, but with his skyscrapers, he had single-handedly altered the landscapes of some of the biggest cities in the world, he had come back from the brink of bankruptcy (no small thing), he had conquered the Manhattan real estate market (the most competitive and cutthroat in the world), he was in his 14th year — fourteen! — of The Apprentice, a primetime hit on a major broadcast network, and he was a bestselling author.
Unless you’re a fool, and let’s face it, most of America’s political and media “experts” are fools, you don’t write off a man like that.
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MLK wasn’t wrong so much as the Left has decided that the bigots of old were right and the same race ideology they believed (the color of skin is of ineffable significance to determine who some one is, who they should be and who they can be) is the race ideology the Left now lives by ... only now they use it to keep people contained rather than keep them out.
But when I speak of keeping people contained don’t think I merely mean some reservation for blacks. No, to the Left everyone has a concentration camp they should stay in and so long as they be who the Left thinks they should be, think what people of their description ought to think, they are absolved ... the good people.
And those of us who won’t go into our assigned camps, we bitter Bible clingers, we are guilty, Deplorables ... the bad people.
I’m proud to be a Deplorable.
Shrugging off the idea Trump would actually run was fair enough. Like I said, he’d been flirting with the idea for decades. Even I would have bet it was a publicity stunt.
No, what surprised me was how #GOPSmartSet and the elite media laughed off Trump as a clown, a huckster, a carnival barker, and bankrupt loser. That, to me, was wholly ridiculous.
To begin with, Trump was in his fourth decade of pop culture relevance. Other than Oprah, how many Americans have remained relevant since the eighties, are more than a nostalgia act today?
On top of that, Trump was not only a potent brand, but with his skyscrapers, he had single-handedly altered the landscapes of some of the biggest cities in the world, he had come back from the brink of bankruptcy (no small thing), he had conquered the Manhattan real estate market (the most competitive and cutthroat in the world), he was in his 14th year — fourteen! — of The Apprentice, a primetime hit on a major broadcast network, and he was a bestselling author.
Unless you’re a fool, and let’s face it, most of America’s political and media “experts” are fools, you don’t write off a man like that.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
MLK wasn’t wrong so much as the Left has decided that the bigots of old were right and the same race ideology they believed (the color of skin is of ineffable significance to determine who some one is, who they should be and who they can be) is the race ideology the Left now lives by ... only now they use it to keep people contained rather than keep them out.
But when I speak of keeping people contained don’t think I merely mean some reservation for blacks. No, to the Left everyone has a concentration camp they should stay in and so long as they be who the Left thinks they should be, think what people of their description ought to think, they are absolved ... the good people.
And those of us who won’t go into our assigned camps, we bitter Bible clingers, we are guilty, Deplorables ... the bad people.
I’m proud to be a Deplorable.
