After months of being dismissed first as a joke, then as a source of worry, Donald Trump has secured the Republican nomination in the battle for the White House and continues to entertain us all in the worst possible ways.
Early attempts to derail the Trump train by the conservative establishment were easily plowed aside. Doubters turned about face and jumped aboard the winning juggernaut.
Previously unimagined by the political elites, Trump as candidate now embodies their worst nightmare.
Those who are waiting for Trump to now become “more presidential” shouldn’t expect it any time soon. That’s not his shtick.
This past week “the Donald” decided to attack a judge who is involved in a class action suit against Trump’s former “university.” Trump flatly said the judge was a “hater” of him because of his Mexican heritage and went on a tirade against the judge. Trump says because he wants a wall between the U.S. and Mexico the judge is biased. He also said he could say the same if a Muslim judge was ruling on his case.
Following Trump’s logic the only fair judicial system for Trump would be one where billionaire old white guys held the gavel.
In many scary ways, Trump defines where America’s “infotainment” culture of political discourse has taken the nation. Trump was the second-most covered story by major networks in 2015. (The first was the weather.) And when we say “covered” we use that term lightly.
Trump has gotten where he is by telling people what they want to hear and appealing to the reptile brains of folks unconcerned by how any of his ideas would work in reality, having lost the ability to distinguish reality from reality TV.
He’s the ultimate cartoon version of a politician. One Internet meme described Trump as what would result if all the online commenting sections were embodied in human form.
Make no mistake, what Trump has accomplished is both remarkable and incredible – the purest sense of those terms. America created Trump. And it will be up to voters there to decide what happens next.
But, unfortunately, we, like Mexico, will feel the tremors from a Trump presidency.
He’s always looking for a scapegoat and it’s just a matter of time before Canadians incur his wrath.
We’d like to believe that Trump’s chances of winning the top job are slim, but then we thought he wouldn’t take the Republican nomination either.
