Trump
is not a tide sweeping the country.
Of
course, he is on track to win the Republican nomination—but he’s a minority
candidate in every respect. He’s a fringe candidate. The vanity, greed and
incompetence of the other Republican candidates helped make Trump the top dog.
The news media have given him a mostly free ride.
Trump
has received about 10.7 million votes so far—that’s less than 4.5 percent of
the eligible voters in America. He has collected about 40 percent of the
Republican votes.
Clinton
has received about 12.6 million votes so far—that’s a little over 5 percent of
the electorate nationwide. She is, nevertheless, a majority candidate—she’s
received about 57 percent of Democratic votes.
Sanders
has collected 9.4 million votes, almost as many as Trump.
Here’s
the main point: Trump’s on track to be the GOP nominee, but he’s not the leader
of the party. He is so much a creature of the fawning media attention that has
handed him an obscenely large share of TV and online air time. He has
cultivated anger among the fearful.
E.
J. Dionne, on Washington:Post.com, makes the sobering point that we all need to
resist “…every attempt to move Trump into the political mainstream…”
Trump
isn’t normal. His candidacy isn’t normal. He’s dangerous for America.
Vote for
someone else in November.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2016 All rights reserved.
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