More Trumpisms

[thewayne]

"Everybody who attacks me is doomed."
—Donald Trump

Wiley has been doing an interesting series in his NonSequitur comic:
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/09/9
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/09/11
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/09/12
(unfortunately I can't directly link the images)

And here it is, in a nutshell. All of the Republican candidates are talking like they're going to be elected emperor, not president. While Fox Newts and scores of other pundits have tried to make Obama look like an autocrat who is dictating what the country does, the truth is that for the most part he's tried to work through congress, albeit unsuccessfully, while using his other powers as president within its prescribed limits (and those usurpedused by his predecessor).

For a couple of examples, the 'Repeal Obamacare!' without having a replacement or mentioning the amount of legislative rewriting that would be required to do it. Or Scott Walker talking about eliminating unions nationwide and also eliminating the division of government that monitors them.

On other fronts, The Daily Beast interviewed Scott Adams about his ongoing examination of Trump using neurolinguistic programming to make himself appear, at least for now, the messiah of the masses.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/14/dilbert-creator-on-how-trump-is-like-the-founding-fathers-jesus.html

Comments

[cp.livejournal.com]

Ha, nice comics, I do like Wiley. And great point. One blurb I saw that has stuck in my brain is that Trump (and the rest of the GOP clown car to some extent) is running on the notion that if elected, HE will fix things all by himself. Bernie is running on the notion that if elected, WE will fix things together. I think there's truth in that.

[silveradept]

The Republicans have been running for autocrat much of the time, mostly because they prefer less government oversight of the people they are most interested in courting and protecting. The rest of us plebes don't matter to their patrician interests.