Since he announced for president, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump has distinguished himself from the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls.<\/p>\n
Trump claims he opposed the invasion of Iraq. If this is true, it would make him better than almost all his Republican competitors, who mulishly continue to justify the most disastrous military campaign in American history (besides the War Between The States).<\/p>\n
Decisive and to the point was Trump about liberalizing ties with Cuba: \u201cIt\u2019s time!\u201d he stated. The man who wrote \u201cThe Art of The Deal,\u201d however, would rather a \u201cdeal\u201d with Cuba favored ordinary Americans and Cubans, and would know how to “deliver the goods.”<\/p>\n
We inhabit a world of managed, not free, trade. Trump is no rent-seeking political rat like every other Republican competing for the throne (besides Ben Carson, who is similarly motivated). Better than any self-interested politician, Trump can probably negotiate winning deals on all Treaties in Force,<\/a> to the benefit of Americans.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really rich,\u201d Trump swanked disarmingly. Being independently and stupendously wealthy means that this American individualist can continue to march to his own drumbeat; be as blunt and bold as he wants and pander to nobody.<\/p>\n \u201cHis fellow GOP presidential candidates,\u201d explained Trump, are \u201ctotally controlled by their donors, by the lobbyists and by the special interests. If we have another politician, this country\u2019s going down. \u2026 I’ve watched the politicians, I’ve dealt with them all my life. They will never make America great again. They don’t even have a chance.”<\/p>\n In the productive, non-parasitical economy, Trump has been enormously successful. Career politicians have created the hot mess that is America. The Founding Fathers wanted regular citizens to serve the public, not live off it as a vocation. Such upstanding Americans were to return to their careers after serving.<\/p>\n The consummate homo economicus<\/em>, Trump is a rational actor in the market place. Unlike the rest of the GOP contenders who’re guided by political calculations; Trump speaks like a man to whom rational economic choices are second nature. And so he gets that the \u201cstock market is bloated\u201d; that the Stock Exchange is a laughing stock, and that soaring stock prices are a consequence of centrally planned, monetary stimulus.<\/p>\n The business mogul surprised Bill O\u2019Reilly with the revelation that he\u2019d \u201chave a great relationship with Vladimir Putin.\u201d This is a good thing. Whereas in the past, Trump was motivated by the sense that the nimbus of great power that surrounds the U.S. was dissipating\u2014he now seems prepared to search closer to home for the causes of America\u2019s economic inertia.<\/p>\n Also to O\u2019Reilly, Trump \u201cpromised to build a wall along the southern border and make Mexico pay for it. \u2018The Factor\u2019 host stated that there\u2019s no way they will pay for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Bill is likelier than Dana Perino to comprehend the workings of tax and trade policy, Trump opted to calm the host down: \u201cYou have to let me handle that. They will pay for the wall, and the wall will go up.\u201d D.C. insider Perino hit the roof: \u201cOn what planet is that actually true? Do you think you can make Mexico pay for a permanent wall between Mexico and the United States?\u201d You can do that?\u201d<\/p>\n A guide to the perpetually perplexed: Trump must be thinking of taking the populist path advocated by Pat Buchanan, whose patriotism is unimpeachable: tariffs. Levying a tariff on Mexico could indeed pay for a wall. Trade tariffs are not this libertarian\u2019s bag<\/em>. But walling off the deluge of Democrats crossing the southwest border is.<\/p>\n Finally, Trump is annoying the right people\u2014from the liberal media to regimist neoconservatives like Perino and Charles Krauthammer, to noise making socialist Neil Young. In particular is the MSM furious about Trump\u2019s matter-of-fact, informed assertion as to the quality of America\u2019s largest immigrant population.<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong>: \u201cWhen Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. \u2026 They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with [them]. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards, and they tell us what they’re getting.\u201d<\/p>\n Brooke Baldwin, CNN<\/strong>: \u201c\u2026 The notion of calling Mexicans rapists, people lose their jobs over words like those. And this is a man running for the president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n Barbie, Trump created his job. He owns it.<\/p>\n And The Donald has certainly apprised himself of the facts. Perhaps he is reading Ann Coulter\u2019s data-driven \u201cAdios America!\u201d in which she writes: \u201cThe U.S. government admits that at least 351,000 criminal immigrants were incarcerated [by] the United States as of 2011\u2014the vast majority of them Mexican.\u201d (Report to Congressional Requesters<\/em>, 7 and 10.)<\/p>\n By the General Accountability Office\u2019s \u201cextremely conservative figures, Mexicans alone\u2014forget other immigrants\u2014have murdered a minimum of 23,000 Americans in the last few decades,\u201d as compared to the Jihadis\u2019 4000 for the same time-frame.<\/p>\n I know, stick to rape; murder doesn\u2019t matter. Cited in \u201cAdios\u201d is a report from the Inter-American Children\u2019s Institute. It seconds what the media-political-complex has submerged. \u201cLatin America is second only to Asia in the sexual exploitation of women and children because sex abuse is \u2018ingrained [in] the minds of the people.\u2019 Women and children are \u2018seen as objects instead of human beings with rights and freedoms.\u2019\u201d (p. 168)<\/p>\n Ann\u2019s \u201cAdios\u201d provides a critical-mass of evidence for Trumps impolitic statement. A few of Latin America\u2019s proud sons are:<\/p>\n \u2022 Ariel Castro (kidnapper, sexual sadist, operated out of Cleveland) \u201cAdios\u201d cites well-concealed official records to uncover a preponderance of \u201cHispanic child rapists,\u201d rounded up (and often released again), in \u201cNebraska, Indiana, even Hawaii.\u201d When rates of child pregnancies and births are factored-in as proxies for rape; Latin America\u2019s rape culture on American soil becomes even scarier.<\/p>\n Trump is on to something elusive: the truth.<\/p>\n Red State\u2019s Erick Erickson concurs (kind of). \u201cTrump\u2019s campaign,\u201d he writes,\u201d \u201cmakes a hell of a lot of sense in an age when people no longer think their vote matters, but they sure want the crap kicked out of all the politicians they blame for making their vote meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n Get cracking, Donald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since he announced for president, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump has distinguished himself from the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls. 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\n\u2022 Elias Acevedo (173 counts of rape, 115 of kidnapping, Castro\u2019s neighbor)
\n\u2022 Ingmar Cuandique (killer of Chandra Levy)
\n\u2022 Matias Reyes (contributor, Central Park rape)
\n\u2022 Conrado Juarez and family accomplices (Baby Hope\u2019s rape and murder)<\/p>\n