"Sham-paign" season, 2016
Nice fantasy. And it comports well with the fantasy that Trump has parlayed into 2016 presidential politics; that of the hard-nosed Jamaica Estates escapee turned, Biz-School All-Star turned big-city business tycoon who now must swoop in and rescue America from the villainous Barack Obama -- by running for president. Well, kind of.
I say "kind of" because despite Trump sustaining his summer-long position as unlikely GOP frontrunner, there seems no doubt that Trump's running for business rather than political reasons. As the Koch brothers have demonstrated, if your goal in politics is focused more on enhancing your business portfolio than serving your country, then as long as you have the requisite financial juice, you can put forth nearly any endeavor toward that goal regardless of how ridiculous or absurd. For the past few election cycles, Trump's absurdity has involved a series of decidedly old-business- school "bait-and-switch" ruses promoted as potential presidential campaigns (although "sham-paigns" might be a more fitting description).
Which is why it's hardly surprising that for 2016, Trump has fired up John McCain's moldy, long-derailed "Straight Talk Express" and opened his latest campaign with a putrid, attention-getting barrage of marginally un-McCain-like "straight talk," specifically targeted at Mexican immigrants, added further ugly comments about China, while later ruthlessly taunting and jeering anyone -- including fellow Republicans -- with the temerity to object to those remarks.
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