Media cannot seem to get enough of trampling Trump or simply wondering at his powerful popularity. It’s no secret that he already proclaims his presidency long before any official voting even takes place. And that, along with his appeal to nascent prejudices of various kinds, may well be what drives politician-weary people to his camp.
Having said that raises the next real question: Does Trump’s appeal say more about the American public than the man himself?
It is nauseatingly true that not one day goes by without even the most ordinarily astute commentators finding it necessary to add what they think might be some unique element to an analysis of the Trump appeal. The one question none of these big time scribes labor over is whether Trump says more about the American people than the man himself. After all, even his greatest detractors feel it their duty to become undocumented psychological analysts in diagnosing, each time, granting him more and more exposure and stirring more defense from his supporters who are offended by the journalistic attacks.
And, sadly, humorously and frankly, here is this very criticism of the media community performing one more PR goody simply by dealing with the phenomenon of the candidate who may well have made good on the H.L. Mencken comment that went roughly: “No one ever lost money overestimating the intellect of the American public.” Or was it “underestimating….?”
Either way, and no matter how the powers who will have blown billions on this disgraceful charade posing as a national political campaign do decide on the candidate for either party, America will have been exposed to the world as something less than advertised.
So, at a time when a virtual Holocaust has emerged in Syria, hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees are storming the borders of several countries possibly becoming one more explosive target for terrorism….at such a time, neither Mr. Trump nor anyone else on the circuit seem to be aware or care.
In the end, it would seem, lacking any broad pressures from any direction to be concerned, perhaps the candidacy of Donald Trump says more about the rest of us than the man himself….one more step down what used to be the ladder of international leadership and respect.
Stay tuned.
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Joe Honick is president of GMA International in Bainbridge Island, Wash.
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