Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s Nominee for President of the United States. It was a long, impetuous, and balkanizing journey – but here we are. Over the next few days we’ll watch as exhausted members of the GOP announce their meaningless defections and listen to sermons eulogizing Donald Trump and the Republican Party. While all of that is distracting us, Donald Trump’s team will be putting together a strategy to defeat Hillary Clinton. For the first time in Donald Trump’s short political career, he will be going head to head with a single dangerous opponent. His path to victory, while uncertain, is much straighter and less arduous than you might imagine.
This election is simple. It’s not about policy. Donald Trump has taken so many different policy positions, he could never defend a presidential bid predicated upon substance. Besides, his supporters are not political ideologues. Many of them do not know how a bill becomes law and could not name more than two of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Donald Trump didn’t defeat 16 experienced Republican opponents with his erudite mastery of “the issuesâ€. He defeated them the way the gladiators of old defeated their foes – with brute force, viciousness, and skill.
This election is not about the Republican Party – so for those of us used to measuring and obsessing over the health of the GOP, nothing that concerns us is in play between now and November. Donald Trump is unlikely to run a campaign designed to help Senators, Congressman, or local GOP candidates win their races. They will be left to fend for themselves. A fact many of them are grateful for under the circumstances.
Donald Trump’s path to victory depends upon his ability to savage Hillary Clinton and promise every American who has felt left out of our nations politics, a country teeming with wealth, jobs, and prosperity and a world where our enemies tremble in fear before us, surrendering at the mere sight of old glory approaching over the horizon of some distant desert. Mr. Trump requires no facts, no philosophy, no concrete agenda. These are things our new voters wouldn’t recognize or understand anyway.
All Donald Trump needs to do to win, is to execute the most expensive, lavish, optimistic propaganda campaign in history. There needs to be American Flags everywhere. Soldiers. Jet Planes. Children on tire-swings hanging in front of white houses with picket fences defending the premises. Patriotic music, Hot Dogs, Sparklers, Bibles, Golden Retrievers, Fireworks on the 4th of July, Coal Miners coming home from work – their wives setting an enormous dinner on the table. Why? Because they can afford it!
Donald Trump needs to make Americans proud to be Americans again. That’s something no politician can give them – but Trump can.
Reawakening the American Dream, Donald Trump needs to eviscerate every lowest common denominator the American People have been told to settle for, invigorating their faith that they can be wealthy and secure, regardless of their race, gender, sexual preference, or background. Trump needs to convince Americans that under his leadership terrorism will become a thing of the past and that America’s enemies will surrender.
f Donald Trump is President, the Russians won’t dare move further into Eastern Europe. If Donald Trump is President, the Chinese wouldn’t dare manipulate their currency. If Donald Trump is President, he’ll build a wall and make the Mexican Government pay for it. If Donald Trump is President, Iran wouldn’t dare build nuclear weapons. If Donald Trump is President, North Korea, unsure and unsettled regarding Trump’s willingness to engage in nuclear war, will publicly dismantle their nuclear weapons.
If Donald Trump is President…..
Our Children will grow up with more than what we have today. They’ll have better health care, new technologies we can’t even imagine, and opportunities, so YUGE, even the greediest amongst us haven’t dared to dream of them. Imagine being able to live in a two story house with a swimming pool, your children splashing in the water, your dog, soaking wet, retrieving a stick – and you are there, both of you, because you don’t have to work three jobs to make ends meet. You can afford your mortgage, and your kids and your dog and your pool and your Thursday evenings at home with your family because Donald Trump put an end to bureaucratic obstruction and the economy has blossomed beyond our wildest dreams.
This is what America will look like if you vote for Donald Trump.
However, if you vote for Hillary Clinton, America will look exactly like it looks today. Only you’ll be 4 to 8 years older and further in debt – increasingly depressed as it becomes more certain that your generation will be turning over a damaged nation to your children and grandchildren. Your children will never know the prosperity and dreams you enjoyed as a child, if you elect Hillary Clinton.
That’s how Donald Trump becomes the next President of the United States of America. There is nothing Hillary Clinton can do to compete against such a campaign. What can she do? Recite facts? Bore the public with talk of policy and statistics while Trump promises them the fulfillment of all their hearts desires? What can she do? Berate Trump for loving America and Americans? Chide him for putting America First? Attack Trump for making political mistakes because he’s not like her, an entrenched politician?
Truly – if Trump runs this kind of campaign, there is no defense. For Hillary Clinton, there is only defeat. For Donald Trump – a landslide victory.
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There are enough to white supremacy voters in the US to make a Trump President a possibility. We can only hope
There is a voting block that virtually dwarfs all other voting blocks and that is the “never voted before” block who saw no use in voting. If they come out in mass, then Trump wins in a landslide. Don’t underestimate his appeal to the silent majority.
This is a great article , however one critical detail is missing. The next President will define history by nominating multiple Supreme Court Justices. Our nation and values are at stake this election as Hillary would fill the court with liberal activists and we don’t have 60 senators with the guts to stop her.
Mr Tucker’s formula for a Trump triumph may not turn out to actually work (it will be hard to undo the widespread damage from Trump’s verbal excesses), but goodness what a superbly written piece.
And if you elect Clinton, America will sink 100 percent into a third world boarding house. She will double down on opening the border… she has said so in speech after speech… Obama didn’t go far enough. And that is a fact.
And you GOP Establishment types will support everything she does in that area, led by Paul Ryan (should that traitor manage to fend off a substantial challenge–he is looking Cantored, maybe.)
No way. The demographics that will not vote for Trump could care less about what he lies about.
Hillary will carry women, blacks, Hispanics, sexual misfits, unions, young people, those millions who have ObamaCare, public workers. Hillary will ask us do we want to go back to $4.00 gasoline.
Trump will carry old white people.
You have the Democrats voting block and it can certainly win… I don’t know if Hillary can get out the black vote the way Obama did though and that might be the difference. Plus young people might not be so Hopey and Changey now… not that the little PC Snowflakes would vote for Trump… but they might not come out for Hillary. She is just not that inspiring and well… a lot of them live at home after eight years of bull crap.
Could be. But Union guys I know are leaning toward Trump. And, many have been so savaged by their union leaders that they are no longer listening to instructions from that direction. Hispanics well know the conditions in the countries they come from, and they understand that unlimited border crossing will recreate those conditions here. Gays understand that transgendered folks are a tiny percentage of their number. Many are appalled at the Democrat party’s fixation on transgender rights, which hurts almost every one else. So, while you are singing from the Democrat choir book, many actual people are listening to Trump.
So I was going to question gay advocacy for Trump, but in this crazy campaign, I thought I’d better Google before I typed.
So a guy named Chris Barron, formerly of GOProud, was trying to put an organization together. CNN covered it on the 15th.
And it appears Barron belly flopped http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/06/watch-gays-trump-leader-get-annihilated-cnn/
But I’ve only heard of one gay conservative group, the Log Cabin Republicans. So I checked their website. Yeah — not much love for The Donald there. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/gay-republicans-platform-lgbt-rachel-hoff-log-cabin-republicans-gop-donald-trump-1.3686672
I’m not saying gays are a giant voting bloc — they aren’t. I’m saying Trump’s appeal among his angry white bloc of voters is so complete they think one tweet from him will endear him to millions of people he’s trashed for over a year now.
This article is about Trump’s path to victory through the use of illusion. The illusion will only last for so long. When it ends, reality is going to hurt.
Are the union guys you know old white people?