The More the Establishment Freaks Out Over Trump, the More Attractive He Becomes

[adissa]

Trump is attractive precisely because the Establishment fears and loathes him because 1) they didn’t pick him and 2) he might upset the neoconservative Empire that the Establishment elites view as their global entitlement.


The Establishment is freaking out about Donald Trump for one reason: they didn’t pick him. The Establishment is freaking out because the natural order of things is that we pick the presidential candidates and we run the country to serve ourselves, i.e. the financial-political elites.


Donald Trump’s candidacy upsets this neo-feudal natural order, and thus he (and everyone who supports him) is anathema to the Establishment, heretics who must be silenced, cowed, marginalized, mocked and ultimately put back in their place as subservient debt-serfs.
With Trump ascendant, the serfs are selecting the noble in the castle on the hill. Outrageous! Unheard of!


You know the Establishment is freaking out when Establishment pundit mouthpieces like David Brooks and Francis Fukuyama are freaking out about Trump. David Brooks could not restrain his disdain for Trump on a recent Charlie Rose segment, in which he intoned (and I paraphrase) that Trump can’t put eight words together without referring to himself, i.e. he is not just a narcissist, but he is (take this, Trump!) a fragile narcissist– unlike people like Brooks, of course, who are solid, secure, wise, well-educated, erudite water-carriers for the status quo.

continued -- https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/...-freaks-trump/

[dannno]

As someone who has felt like the media has been trying to manipulate me for several decades - even the fact that they hate Trump so much, which makes me like Trump more, feels like a manipulation by the media to make me like Trump. But man, that would be a pretty elaborate hoax, and I'm not quite sure what purpose it would serve. At first I thought it was about Rand, but Rand dropped a long time ago and they are still going full throttle with this whole thing so I can't quite put my finger on it.

[CPUd]

[Dary]

The Establishment is freaking out about Donald Trump...

...or so the Germans would have you believe...

[kahless]

For RPF it is, "The more CPUd and others here spam RPF with bogus anti-Trump articles, the more attractive he becomes".

[CPUd]

For RPF it is, "The more CPUd and others here spam RPF with bogus anti-Trump articles, the more attractive he becomes".

I didn't write the articles.

[parocks]

Don't much like Trump, but when I see that Romney and Bush and Bill Kristol are saying that Trump is unacceptable, it makes me like him more. I don't think it really matters to me how much I like Trump though, as Hillary is so disgusting.

[Jbunker]

In this instance, the enemy of my enemy is just a separate enemy.

[parocks]

As someone who has felt like the media has been trying to manipulate me for several decades - even the fact that they hate Trump so much, which makes me like Trump more, feels like a manipulation by the media to make me like Trump. But man, that would be a pretty elaborate hoax, and I'm not quite sure what purpose it would serve. At first I thought it was about Rand, but Rand dropped a long time ago and they are still going full throttle with this whole thing so I can't quite put my finger on it.

I can't quite figure it out either. I'm guessing their plan didn't work exactly the way they wanted.

They've always bashed the GOP candidate. Trump is the GOP candidate, so they're bashing him now. For the year before that, they gave him so much press, and that was designed to prevent Rand from getting traction. They certainly would've preferred Clinton v Bush. Now they have Clinton v Trump. And Clinton v Trump was better for them than Clinton v Rand Paul.

These days, you could guess that Hillary is just bribing the $#@! out of everybody. Full on bribery, blackmail, threats, murder, lies, like we've never seen before. The media had 0 credibility and they're pulling out all the stops.

[Tywysog Cymru]

Trump is falling in popularity, so...

[robmpreston]

As of today, Trump basically has a 0% chance to win the election. LOL!

[CPUd]

He's already called in the establishment to try and help save him again:

[angelatc]

For RPF it is, "The more CPUd and others here spam RPF with bogus anti-Trump articles, the more attractive he becomes".

+1776

[angelatc]

They've always bashed the GOP candidate. Trump is the GOP candidate, so they're bashing him now. For the year before that, they gave him so much press, and that was designed to prevent Rand from getting traction. They certainly would've preferred Clinton v Bush. Now they have Clinton v Trump. And Clinton v Trump was better for them than Clinton v Rand Paul.

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Yes they went really easy on Trump during the primary season. After he got the nomination they pulled all their stops out.

[CPUd]

Yes they went really easy on Trump during the primary season. After he got the nomination they pulled all their stops out.

The press hasn't been much different, but the audience has expanded.

[nikcers]

Yes they went really easy on Trump during the primary season. After he got the nomination they pulled all their stops out.

I haven't seen one interview where they pulled all the stops. Show me the Trump interview where they give him the Ron Paul treatment. I want to see the interview where all they ask him is about how anti Israel he is and his news letters. I've seen softball interview after softball interview that no real threat to the establishment would get.

[CPUd]

I haven't seen one interview where they pulled all the stops. Show me the Trump interview where they give him the Ron Paul treatment. I want to see the interview where all they ask him is about how anti Israel he is and his news letters. I've seen softball interview after softball interview that no real threat to the establishment would get.

Here's one:

[nikcers]

Here's one:

yeah thats the only one i've heard too, I was hoping there would be one with the MSM not from some radio guy i've never heard of.

[angelatc]

I haven't seen one interview where they pulled all the stops. Show me the Trump interview where they give him the Ron Paul treatment. I want to see the interview where all they ask him is about how anti Israel he is and his news letters. I've seen softball interview after softball interview that no real threat to the establishment would get.

I have not paid much attention to Trump's interviews, because nobody but us cares about poicy, but the headlines have been hit piece after hit piece. CNN spent an entire day discussing the fact that he eats fried chicken with a fork. We were horrified to learn he's never changed a diaper. His first wife wrote a novel where a fictional character was raped, and that was him. He's a racist, a sexist, he hires slave labor.

[phill4paul]

I have not paid much attention to Trump's interviews, because nobody but us cares about poicy, but the headlines have been hit piece after hit piece. CNN spent an entire day discussing the fact that he eats fried chicken with a fork. We were horrified to learn he's never changed a diaper. His first wife wrote a novel where a fictional character was raped, and that was him. He's a racist, a sexist, he hires slave labor.

Anything to keep Hillary out of the newz cycle. I'm about 50/50 on whether it is planned or happenstance. As in, whether Trumps a wonderful foil to legitimate concerns about Hillary or he is just Trump and an excellent target for the nonsensical.

[ronpaulhawaii]

Kinda obvious to me. The establishment appears to hate Trump because those on the right need an excuse to back Hillary...

People thinking Trump is anti-establishment seem to ignore the fact that the establishment consists of several "classes": The Donor class (Trump is one), The Crony Class, (Trump is one), The thought-leader class - Media/Clergy/Academia - (Trump is one), and the political class (Trump is one).

So, unless his campaign (and life) is one big conspiracy, the "libertarians for an authoritarian" appear to be useful idiots to me. Hopefully I'm wrong...

[timosman]

The thought-leader class - Media/Clergy/Academia -

LOL.

[puppetmaster]

I didn't write the articles.

no but you definitely spam us here with articles not written by you.

[r3volution 3.0]

As someone who has felt like the media has been trying to manipulate me for several decades - even the fact that they hate Trump so much, which makes me like Trump more, feels like a manipulation by the media to make me like Trump. But man, that would be a pretty elaborate hoax, and I'm not quite sure what purpose it would serve. At first I thought it was about Rand, but Rand dropped a long time ago and they are still going full throttle with this whole thing so I can't quite put my finger on it.

How about, politics aside, they don't want a psychotic in control of the nuclear codes?

[CPUd]

no but you definitely spam us here with articles not written by you.

It's not spam, I regularly engage in discussions in threads I create.

[dannno]

How about, politics aside, they don't want a psychotic in control of the nuclear codes?

The President doesn't, not without the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

[r3volution 3.0]

The President doesn't, not without the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Oh good, the President's a psychotic, but as long as the chain of command operates as intended, we won't all be vaporized.

...I feel better.

[Ender]

Oh good, the President's a psychotic, but as long as the chain of command operates as intended, we won't all be vaporized.

...I feel better.

"I feel better!"

[Theocrat]

It bears repeating that just because a person appears to be "antiestablishment," it doesn't mean that that person is also "pro-liberty."

In my opinion, Trump is not antiestablishment; he just wants to create another kind of establishment. He's also at war...with himself:



And, the most antiestablishment statesman to ever sit in a seat of Congress has exposed Trump for who is really is--an authoritarian:

[dannno]

Oh good, the President's a psychotic, but as long as the chain of command operates as intended, we won't all be vaporized.

...I feel better.

Nobody has perfect mental health, but I highly question whether Donald Trump's brand of mental health is worse than the establishment. I wasn't too happy with his Gitmo response recently, and I'm still not voting for him (leaning towards GJ) but overall he seems more coherent than Mitt Romney/Obama/McCain/Clinton/Bush/neocons/socialists.