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Watching President Trump drone on at his Texas rally last night I can once again understand why so many swells find him unpalatable and infuriating. He is fast and lose with his rhetoric which excites and sways his enormous crowds to his way of thinking. His speech is far from sophisticated. He is often braggadocios. He is repetitious. He is even sometimes crude and cruel. And, every once in a while, he self effaceds He is a consuming huckster showman in the mold of P.T. Barnum.

But what gets the swells blood boiling most is that he has his enormous crowds in the palm f his small hand. They are constantly cheering or jeering depending on Trump's target. They are his people ... and I think he has not yet even reached the peak of his appeal.

But how can we who don't consider ourselves swells, how can we support him?

Because of what he is doing. The liberal elite in America have, over the last half century, built a fortress of globalistic claptrap. Hiding behind the media's ranparts, our academics, corporate poobahs and entertainment glitterati have been willing to urinate on most of this nation's morals and institutions ... which once formed our nation's backbone. This cabal was so powerful that even the conservative movement was willing to satisfy themselves with just occasional moments in the sun.

But Trump has banished these moneylenders from the temple ... and vast swaths of the American people see the possibility that their voices might once again be heard. And now they see it happening hrgh to this uncouth man with the orange hair ... who is giving them jobs, security, less government, and renewed pride in their country.

And, for this, they are willing to suffer a little of P.T. Barnum's hokum.