Tagged: donald trump

What if he succeeds?

Those making predictions of a failed Trump presidency would do well to remember their predictions about his “doomed” candidacy.

Re-learning hard lessons.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they thought they could get away with it. That calculation came perilously close to being correct.

They never saw it coming.

The political-class Ivy Leaguers who train back and forth between New York and Washington live in an alternate universe that most ordinary Americans don’t even know exists.

Whiffed.

The first question in the third and final presidential debate was a real opportunity for Trump to remind us that the Supreme Court is perhaps the number one reason to choose him over Hillary.

There’s no escape.

The fact that the majority of Republican voters chose Donald Trump over the likes of Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and 13 others should be telling Republicans something.

$20 trillion for what?

No nation has ever borrowed so much money. No nation has ever spent so much money. Never in human history has so much money been spent with so little to show for having spent it.

Dynastic disappointment.

Papa Bush’s declaration in favor of Hillary Clinton is a thumb in the collective eye of millions of Republican voters hoping for a Trump victory – voters who, in years past, hoped with equal fervor for Bush victories.