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Like millions of Americans (a silent majority?) I like The Donald. I think that his handling of our ever-precarious economy was quite deft before "The Stand", and I admire Trump's desire to end certain ruinously expensive wars.

Also, I admire the Teflon Don's style. When I think of him I see, in my mind's eye, a wasted Tony Montana explaining to a room of swells exactly why the world needs "bad guys" like him. The economist Joseph Schumpeter famously described the frenetic energies of capitalism as a “perennial gale of creative destruction” The Donald is creative destruction personified.
I dig his idiosyncratic use of the language, and his outrageous sense of humor. Both are key to his success. A case can be made that Trump is the funnest President since that deeply divisive, widely despised serial violator of the Constitution Abraham Lincoln. It can in fact be argued that Trump joked his way into the Presidency. Barack Obama was a more polished orator, but let's be honest, the effect was largely soporific. Can you honestly remember anything that he said? Besides the bit about letting you keep your doctor if you liked him?
The Left is so consumed with hatred for Trump that mere facts have, in fact, ceased to matter. Nothing that the man does is any good by definition. If he improves relations with feisty North Korea, so what, they suck. Improves the bloody Middle East? Blah. Donates his entire salary to good causes, big deal. Defeats ISIS? Yawn. Lowers taxes while improving the economy? Zzzzzz. Channeling Andrei Agassi, image now seems to be everything to the haters.

To adulterate a Reaganism, Donald Trump did not leave the Democratic Party. Rather the Party left (Way Far Left!) him, and a bunch of other quite liberally-minded folk, behind with its excesses.

Trump's lambasting of the vendors of Fake News gets my approval. The way that yellow journalists twisted his words about the unfortunate events in Charlottesville was beneath contempt. There WERE good, and bad people on both sides of that lamentable fracas. There always are. Way to often, MSM fails to provide context to the affairs that they are allegedly covering. The "Lamestream" media implied that there was something sinister about The Donald seeking better relations with Vladmir Putin, while dropping Hillary's abortive attempts at a "restart" to relations with the Russkies down the memory hole.

A notable (and chilling) effect of the absolute media Krieg against Trump is that many college-educated and well-intentioned folk now think that it is a mortal sin to vote for the other legal party. Merely wearing the opposition's hat is cause for a beat-down for more than a handful. There is actually a movie about hunting down Republican voters. I'm not sure that you could be a professor these days if you openly supported The Donald. Not for long, anyway. None of this can be healthy for the nation as a whole in the long run.

Too many good people--on both sides--have abandoned openly debating causes rationally and dispassionately. Too many have become arrogant paladins of their good causes. Groupthink does not require any 'fair and balanced' assessment of the long term costs and consequences of, say, opening up our borders to millions of people from violent, virulently misogynist and/or Ebola-plagued lands (many of them are, of course, good people!) , or offering to pay for the college tuitions of illegal immigrants while the children of people who have been here hundreds of years cannot afford to go.

People are saying that The Donald lacks empathy. What they really mean, I think, is that he has empathy for the wrong people. And no, I don't mean Nazis. I find his responses to the myriad catastrophes of our era to be heartfelt.

As do many others. Perhaps a Silent Majority of them. I predict an easy Trump victory over Hidin' Joe Biden and Cruella.

The "pedoho" ticket.

Damn, I was hoping something happened to Trump Towers just so that 'The Tower' tarot card I pulled for August in the Wheel of the Year spread would be right. Thanks for getting my hopes up for nothing.

On a more serious note. I think Trump has tried to do SOME good, but the problem is that he has no skills in diplomacy and a lot of the bad things he has done seem to outweigh the good. Also you basically claim that liberals believe he can do no right, which I agree with you on that, but do you also consider that Trump's supporter believe he can no wrong? And frankly Trump Supporters are bullies.

There were no good people on the Unite the Right side at Charlottesville.Unless you consider white supremist and neo-nazis good.