September 21, 2015
Trump the Everyman?
This may sound funny, but a big reason why Donald Trump is being embraced by millions of conservatives is because we can relate to guys like him. We understand what makes guys like him tick. And ultimately, we generally just like guys like him.
Sure, he’s brash and rude, lacks finesse and couth, has more money than us, and lives a posh lifestyle that most people can never imagine. But we don’t begrudge him those things. And we certainly prefer him to the elites in Washington and academia, who presume to hector us about our worldviews and how we live our lives and raise our children, and whose economic ideas are, quite frankly, absurd in the context of reality.
There’s a scene from a 1986 movie called Back to School that captures my meaning pretty well.
Rodney Dangerfield plays Thornton Melon, a successful entrepreneur whose chain of “Tall and Fat” clothing stores have made him a multi-millionaire. When his son...(Read Full Article)