Without taking a position on this statement, I have been amazed by the degree of spontaneous congruence in the opinions of politicians and the press (the ruling class) being voiced about Trump's comment. These lock-step denouncements had about as much space between them as the stonework at Machu Picchu.
I suppose that, taking a step back, that this is not surprising. Man, being a social animal, normally does not want to be an opinion outlier ... and so will modify true feelings to conform to what the group-think seems to be forming. This is kind of like how flocks of birds or schools of fish often seem to form one undulating mass ... swooping and turning in remarkable unison.
Again, not taking sides in this Muslim immigration cage match, one of Donald Trump's appealing qualities is that he doesn't swim with the schools or fly with the flocks. But I think that I, and a whole lot of other people, would like to figure out to the beat of what drummer he is marching.
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I totally understand where you are coming from. It (the lockstep response) is almost identical to the Fox gang's party line responding to Obama's speech the other night. Makes you want to yawn. Speaking of Trump's drummer, are you relieved that he asserts he would not bang his attractive daughter 1) because he is happily married and 2) because he is her dad?
Didn't hear about Trump's incest remarks ... are you sure? And the negative responses to Obummer's speech went far beyond Fox News. I also watch MSNBC and they were rife there.
Trump has established that the extreme right is much further right than pretty much all the other candidates and the rest of the world leaders. Even Jean-Marie Le Pen is starting to think of himself as a centrist.
The fact that pretty much the whole of Europe is outraged by Trump is, in my mind, a recommendation.
The very word "trump" is redefining itself.
I bid 2016-no-Trump...
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