Trump is Positioned to Win the Presidency

My secret is contrarianism. Since the conventional wise men of the corporate mainstream media are almost always wrong, you'll almost always be right if you bet against them.

The MSM take on Donald Trump is a rare exception to the rule. They're scared and so am I. They're right to be frightened. He's an unconscious fascist, less like Hitler the careful schemer, more like Adolf's mentor Mussolini, who cobbled together a little bit from the socialist left and a lot from the nationalist right, winged it as he noted which lines got the most applause, and repeated those.

The trouble with Trump isn't his policies. He hardly has any. Those he has are so vague as to be laughable (see: the Mexican-financed border wall, mass deportations, etc.)

His temperament is the threat. Hillary Clinton hasn't met a war she didn't like, but it's easy to imagine Trump starting one -- maybe a big one -- accidentally. Trump has so much contempt for the system, the job he's running for, and the American people, that he hasn't bothered to study up on the issues. If he took real estate this seriously, he would have gone bankrupt even more often.

Here's some irony: America finally elects the magic businessman as president -- which we've been told for years would be awesome -- and securities markets tank in reaction to the uncertainty he creates.

Trump, used to getting his way all the time, is a bully. A president convinces. An authoritarian orders you. Do what he says, or else. This November, nothing less than the American political system is at stake.

So it's time to get real.

The establishment types are still in denial. Wake up, idiots!

At this writing, Trump is my odds-on favorite to win in November. Things could change. But that's where we've been for months and where we are now.

Because they didn't think Trump could win the nomination, the party's efforts to stop him have come way too little, way too late. Mitt Romney 2.0? Paul Ryan? Seriously?

Looking back, pressuring Trump and the other candidates promise to support the eventual nominee and foreswear a third-party/independent candidacy rates as one of the stupidest political maneuvers of all time. Now the Republicans are stuck with the dude.

Not that the Democrats are blameless. Barring a miraculous EmailGate-related indictment or the eruption of some new scandal-in-waiting, Hillary Clinton will probably be the Democratic nominee. Thank you, DNC! And she'll be a disaster. Head-to-head match-ups have consistently shown that she's weaker against Trump than Bernie Sanders.

Trump is hardwired to find the weak spots in his opponents. He'll have a field day demolishing Clinton's candidacy, which is constructed on a pair of fantasies: that her long resume equals a list of impressive accomplishments, and that her record of supporting right-wing wars and trade agreements means she's secretly a progressive longing to race out of the gate to keep "fighting for us." Remember what he did to Little Marco Rubio.

Trump will blow up Hillary's BS over and over and over. And there's a lot of BS to blow up.

Hillary's support is wide but shallow. Sure, some Bernie voters will dutifully Feel the Hill. But many Democrats, the ones who got into the Bern because they couldn't abide Clinton, will not. DINO Hillary is to Trump's right on war and trade and probably on Israel too. The #BernieorBust movement could leave enough progressives sitting home on election day or casting their votes for the Green Party's Jill Stein to put Trump into the White House.