After weeks of worrying traditional anti-tax Republicans with talk of a crackdown on the rich, experts across the political spectrum say Trump’s plan looks like a windfall for the wealthiest of the wealthy and for big corporations.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi and Republican front-runner Donald Trump share a flaunted machismo and political incorrectness, saying outrageous things to get free media coverage, and targeting predominantly blue-collar white males who feel threatened by globalization, multiculturalism and women’s rights. Berlusconi was initially dismissed as wholly unelectable. His political momentum lasted more than 20 years.
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Trump’s candidacy has already left a durable mark, expanding the discourse of hate such that we barely even registered that Senator Ted Cruz had called the sitting President “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism,” or that Senator Marco Rubio had redoubled his opposition to abortion in cases of rape, incest, or a mortal threat to the mother. Trump has bequeathed a concoction of celebrity, wealth, and alienation that is more potent than any we’ve seen
Donald Trump has been on top of the polls for a full month. In this new short TV ad, Donald builds out his plan for a wall to keep Mexicans out, telling us what else he would do as President.
The anti-immigrant, anti-Obama, anti-establishment sentiment that Trump is tapping runs deep within the Republican electorate. Many clearly see the president as a foreign-born secret Muslim with a clandestine plan to weaken, if not ruin, the United States and they have a dark, nearly apocalyptic view of Obama’s America. Voters this dissatisfied and this detached from reality will be looking for someone who can vent for them. Trump does that.
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