[1]The Trump v. Clinton question is which liar do you prefer, the liar is a bad pants suit or the liar with a bad hair piece? Camille Paglia suggests that it was the relentless hounding of social justice warrior attack dogs that swelled the ranks of the Trumpkins It certainly wasn’t anything Donald did that resembled acting presidential, or even civilized. More Paglia, from Salon [2]:
Trump has knocked the stilts out from the GOP establishment and crushed the pretensions of a battalion of political commentators on both the Left and Right. Portraying him as a vile racist, illiterate boob, or the end of civilization as we know it hasn’t worked because his growing supporters are genuinely motivated by rational concerns about border security and bad trade deals. Whether Trump, with his erratic impulses and gratuitous crudities, can morph toward statesmanship remains to be seen. We don’t need another bumbling rube like George W. Bush, who bizarrely ambushed German chancellor Angela Merkel by grabbing and massaging her shoulders from behind as she was seated at a G8 Summit meeting in St. Petersburg in 2006.
Is Mrs. Clinton willing, or even able, to call off her attack dogs. Will the social justice warriors give us 1968 redux? Then unlike Donald Trump or Mrs. Clinton, Richard Nixon was smart.