To large extent, Trump owes his shocking rise to the top of the GOP ticket to the fact that he shoots from the hip and that the media hates him. What was once a liability, has become an asset as trust for the despised media has plunged to depths never seen before.
But that doesn't explain what's really driving this election and why are the American people so overcome by desperation?
It's all about economic insecurity. It's all about the fact that standards of living are slipping, that an entire generation is bogged down with student debt, that all the good-paying jobs have been shipped to other countries, that family incomes are shriveling, that a good portion of the population feel threatened by immigration, that health care costs have skyrocketed, that retirement plans have been postponed, and that the great bulk of the nation's wealth has been transferred to the 1 percent plutocrats and Wall Street land-sharks who dictate policy through their Congressional lackeys and their allies at the Federal Reserve. That's what the election is really all about.
People are waking up to the fact that the American dream is dead, that the US is no longer the land of opportunity, and that the lives of their children are going to be worse than their own, far worse. This is why everyone is so upset, so frustrated, so hopeless. They are looking for a political ally who will address their needs, and instead they get bromides on transgender bathrooms or "glass ceilings" or any of the other soothing slogans the Democrats use to pacify the masses and to keep them in the flock.
Only now it's not working as well. Now a sizable portion of the blue collar vote has shifted into Trump's camp mainly because they see through the phony Democrat rhetoric and all the job-eviscerating free trade deals they've pushed for years. Trump has skillfully tapped into the collective psyche of millions of working people who feel the Democratic Party tossed them under the track-hoe 30 years ago and never looked back. And, he's right, too. The Dems have sold out their supporters, and it's only going to get worse under Clinton, or should we say, Madame TPP. Here's how Nile Bowie summed it up in a recent article at CounterPunch:
"Economic disempowerment and political disenfranchisement have accelerated under President Obama, to the detriment of the American middle class. White, blue-collar Americans have witnessed the offshoring of their jobs and the erosion of their status in society, and Trump has masterfully stroked their resentment and discontent by playing on their fears of Muslims, immigrants and minorities...
"Trump's real problem with the Washington establishment is that he isn't part of it. His campaign represents an insurgent faction of the oligarchical class that aims to displace and replace the standing political elites. Bipartisan opposition to Trump is grounded in the belief that he would be an unreliable proxy and a liability, someone too narrow and unpredictable to manage the common affairs of the ruling class and the US deep state.
"Moreover, the US establishment is not interested in being led by such a contentious figure, who would draw protest and public opposition in a way that more conventional establishment candidates largely do not. For example, Trump's rhetoric on immigration seems to engender more public outrage than the immigration policy under Obama, who has deported more people than any other president in history." (Election 2016: A Political System In Crisis, Nile Bowie, CounterPunch)
The big money guys don't like Trump, and they make no bones about it. But Trump isn't going away and neither are his followers, a vast number of whom will not respect the results of the election if Hillary wins. That's a big problem for elites who like to manage the population through the popular election sham. Now all that's at risk.
And it's not like Trump hasn't bent over backwards to ingratiate himself with the deep-state powerbrokers either. He has. His first olive branch to the elites was the selection of Mike Pence as his running mate. Pence is a died-in-the-wool establishment Republican neocon who can be trusted to pursue the same extremist agenda the GOP has followed since the Gingrich revolution. But there was another big move that Trump made that escaped the notice of the media and which really underscores his willingness to "play by to the rules." Here's the story from Zero Hedge:
"Six months ago, Steven Mnuchin became finance chair for the Trump campaign. Having successfully helped to raise 10s of millions of dollars for the campaign, the former Goldman Sachs partner and Soros Fund management employee is now positioned for something much larger as Donald Trump reportedly told his aides today that he wants Mnuchin to serve as his Treasury Secretary.
"Ironically, Trump has often criticized Clinton (and his former competitor Ted Cruz) for their links to the big banks:
'I know the guys at Goldman Sachs. They have total, total control over him. Just like they have total control over Hillary Clinton,' Trump said in one debate.
"But as we noted previously, he had no qualms, however, in hiring one of the most prominent Goldman alums to raise money for him...
for Trump, a self-professed 'anti-establishment' candidate, who has repeatedly stated he is not 'for sale to special interest groups,' his sudden call for the seemingly most 'Wall Street' of Wall-Streeters to become Treasury Secretary may come as a big surprise to some and will leave many of his supporters demanding an explanation." (Trump Wants Former Goldman Partner And Soros Employee To Serve As Treasury Secretary, Zero Hedge)
Another head of Treasury from G-Sax?
That figures.
Trump is great with the rabble-rousing "take back your country" tirades and all the gibberish about the "rigged" system. But he also knows how to cave in when it suits his interests. He knows he's not going to be president without Wall Street's nod, so he's enlisted a trusted insider to take care of business at Treasury. It's a signal to the bigwigs that they don't have to worry about the Donald going off the reservation. (wink, wink) So much for Trump's independence, eh?
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