{"id":37754,"date":"2016-05-11T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37754"},"modified":"2016-05-11T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:10:45","slug":"is-a-trump-tsunami-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37754","title":{"rendered":"Is A Trump Tsunami On The Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Rosa, CA<br \/>\nMay 11, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>They keep getting it wrong, folks! I&#8217;m talking about all those<br \/>\nwell-paid pundits and smart-ass reporters who populate<br \/>\nWashington while hanging out with our political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>What they fail to see is the likely &#8220;Trump Tsunami&#8221; that is about<br \/>\nto descend on the District of Criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Trump represents the culmination of decades of pent-up<br \/>\nfrustration by the electorate with the political classes of both<br \/>\nparties who have consistently disappointed voters.<\/p>\n<p>Trump = Ross Perot + Ralph Nader + Ron Paul + Bernie Sanders!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Donald<\/em> is by no means a Saint&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;and his immature need to<br \/>\nbelittle his opponents is clearly troubling.<\/p>\n<p>BUT&#8212;and this is HUGE&#8212;he is right on the big issues of war;<br \/>\nthe economy; the need to constrain our imperial ways and the<br \/>\npoor leadership we have experienced from both parties.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is the third party some of us have been advocating<br \/>\nand praying for all these many years.<\/p>\n<p>NATO must be reformed&#8230;&#8230;or ended. The Fed must be audited&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nand\/or ended. The tax system must be made fairer. The Hamiltonian<br \/>\nSystem of trade and job protection for AMERICANS must be restored.<br \/>\nImmigration has gone too far. Russia can be seen as a potential ally<br \/>\nrather than as a Cold War II enemy. Our role in the Middle East must be<br \/>\nredefined to avoid the waste and tragedy of endless wars based on lies.<\/p>\n<p>On these and other key issues, Trump reflects the deeper instincts of a<br \/>\nmajority of the population who have been waiting for a champion to voice<br \/>\ntheir concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Belittled from the start of his campaign while being endlessly attacked by his<br \/>\nopponents and critics, Trump has shown himself to be one tough cookie<br \/>\ndespite his relatively thin skin and childish tendency to take it all personally.<\/p>\n<p>Authoritarian and bossy? Yes, I agree. Fascist? That&#8217;s a propagandistic tactic<br \/>\nand exaggeration by his enemies to defeat him. And it ain&#8217;t working because<br \/>\nthe American people somehow &#8220;get&#8221; that he is far more authentic than the<br \/>\nslick, packaged candidates they have come to know and despise.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the general election, am I the only one noticing that Democratic<br \/>\nvoters do not like Hillary Clinton? Even if she weren&#8217;t a liar and a crook, she<br \/>\nis just not a very strong candidate. Much of her popularity comes from her<br \/>\nassociation with her husband. More important, her public record is devoid of<br \/>\nmajor successes while being filled with countless policy failures and scandals.<\/p>\n<p>As for Bernie Sanders, he is on the verge of losing the nomination. He has<br \/>\nhelped everyone see that Hillary is not very popular and has raised many<br \/>\nimportant issues.<\/p>\n<p>But some of those issues overlap with what Trump is saying. In a few weeks,<br \/>\nwhen the dust clears and it will be Hillary vs. The Donald in November, Sanders<br \/>\nwill be forgotten like a good play-off team beaten before the Championship round.<\/p>\n<p>After that happens, Trump will be there to pounce on Hillary&#8217;s weaknesses, promote<br \/>\nhis own agenda and absorb a large percentage of the disaffected Sanders voters.<br \/>\nEven if she is not indicted and even if Trump risks turning folks off by remaining overly<br \/>\naggressive towards her, the odds of him winning a Reagan style 1980 landslide are<br \/>\ngrowing every day.<\/p>\n<p>The pundits will tell you otherwise. They will pull out their graphs and talk about the<br \/>\nElectoral College advantage for Hillary and the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Bullshit! More wishful thinking and typical Main Stream Media liberal bias. Folks see<br \/>\nTrump with his beautiful family and the strong, independent women surrounding him<br \/>\nand get that he is NOT a misogynist!<\/p>\n<p>They see how basically decent he is when not being attacked and &#8220;get&#8221; that this man<br \/>\nis NOT a closet fascist.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, as dumbed-downed, manipulated and deceived as the American people<br \/>\nare, they still can see a tiny ray of hope for the future in a man called Trump!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}