Vincent J. Curtis
9 Oct 2016
If Donald Trump gets elected, it won’t be because of Wall
Street money or endorsements from all the smart people. Donald Trump’s election is entirely dependent
upon the good sense of the American people.
If the American people elect Donald Trump president, he will
owe his election entirely to
them. He won’t be beholding to any
private interest. There will be no one
who can say, that it was his money, his organizational skills, or his influence
with the electorate that got Trump the elected.
No one will own Donald Trump – except the American people.
The political correctness goons are busy at this moment chasing
down anyone who indicated support for Trump in the past and is forcing them to
recant. Republican establishment figures
like Paul Ryan collapsed early. Business
figures like Jack Welch, who endorsed Trump’s economic message now says that
Trump is the wrong messenger. John McCain has also withdrawn his support,
but he didn’t need much of an excuse.
This situation presents the American people with a unique
opportunity. If you’ve ever wanted to
give the political and journalistic class an upraised middle finger, voting for
Trump is your way to do it. If you’ve
ever wanted to stick it to the man, voting for Donald Trump will be your way of
doing it, for Trump has become the ultimate anti-establishment figure in American
politics. Everybody hates him, except
perhaps you the voter.
My wife and I were revolted at the coverage of the eleven
year old not-mic video in which Trump engaged in locker-room boasting with then
host of “Access Hollywood” Billy Bush.
We didn’t listen to the talk. We
were disgusted by the displays of voyeurism in
the media. Everybody who was anybody
in the media was called upon to put on a display of boiler-plate morality. For a moment, everyone became a Methodist,
without a Methodist’s Christian understanding of the forgiveness of sin.
All the commentary was about the condemnation of the sinner,
not of the sin. After the normalization
of homosexuality (LGBT) by media campaign over the last two decades, the
condemnation of Trump was one hypocrisy too far.
Allegedly, Trump’s comments were going to turn off the
college-educated white women who live the suburbs of Philadelphia; and that was
going to cost him the election. Beneath
this proposition lay the assumption that college-educated white women were
stupid. Beneath it was the assumption
that college-educated white women had never heard of such talk before. It was as if college-educated white women
never suspected that their sons and husbands occasionally thought and talked
like Trump and Billy Bush – in a locker room, in a hunt camp, at a bar, at a men’s
boasting contest.
When actual women were asked their opinion of the matter, most
of them acted indifferently. Most of
them acted as if this was no more unexpected than the news that occasionally
Trump and Hillary use the bathroom. They
already knew that boys poop in their diapers, at practically any age. The video was eleven years old. What does it have to do with the issues that
matter to them in the here and now?
Actual women demonstrated more maturity over the issue than
the media. Actual women already knew
that Trump was not a choir boy. If Bill
Clinton and Paul Ryan are any examples, choir boys are kind of boring. The Trump video may turn into a kind of
revelation to college-educated women, about the assumptions the media have
about them and play to. Those
assumptions they may find revolting and patronizing. Many women, like many men, may vote for Trump
to protest the assumptions made about
them. A Trump presidency would be
the ultimate stick in the eye to all those smug jackasses on TV.
If Donald Trump is elected, no one but the people will own
him.
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