Via TheAntiMedia.org,
Politicians are all corrupt; those few who do initially join to “help the people” either soon get corrupted, or are mulched out of the system. None are more corrupt than those who are at the very top of American politics; the so-called “survivors.”
In Orthodox Christianity, a “holy fool” is a type of saint, someone who appears to be absurd, but who embeds the truth in his or her own apparent madness. Is Donald Trump a political version of this? Eric Levitt points out that if Trump weren’t saying true things — things that Republicans aren’t supposed to say — he wouldn’t have gotten this far in the GOP primary. Excerpts listing what Levitt, who derides the candidate as a “narcissistic reality star,” says are Trump’s “truth bombs”:
Back in November, before the flames were even extinguished on the Su-24 Ankara shot down near the Syrian border, Vladimir Putin made a startling assertion.
Turkey, he said, is funding ISIS.
New poll out from CNN shows that 41 percent of Republicans nationwide favor Trump — a new high for him. Says CNN:
That more than doubles the support of his nearest competitor, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who notches 19% support in the poll. No other candidate hit double-digits. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio landed at 8%, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 6%, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 5%, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 4%, and the rest at 3% or less.
David Brooks remains in denial about what is happening:
Sometimes a candidate can sweep Iowa and New Hampshire and cruise to the nomination. But that candidate has to be broadly acceptable to all parts of the party. Trump, Cruz and Sanders are not.