Alex Pareene on the glory of Trump
Alex Pareene (Salon/Gawker) has it as, "Trump represents the total rejection of the tenets of movement conservatism by Republican voters, who, it turns out, have actually just been voting for nationalism and xenophobia this whole".
Trump's glamour provokes reactions like,
Trump was in the casino business. The casino business consists of creating slot machines for downscale people with little impulse control and no grasp of basic numeracy to give away their earnings to rich corporations in exchange for the fleeting dream of unearned wealth. It is a business based almost entirely on massive debt and government corruption, that feeds on human weakness, and that ought to be recession-proof in the hands of a minimially competent manager. Trump borrowed prodgiously, expanded unwisely, and failed hugely, taking Atlantic City down with him. He then revived his fortunes by playing a successful businessman on reality TV and licensing his name out to merchandisers of cheap Chinese goods, fake universities, and "luxury" properties attracting insecure nouveau-riche around the globe. No person in America better exemplifies all the worst aspects of America than Donald Trump.