Donald Trump

I decided not to talk about this…”man” (surely he’s not a politician). Not because of the reasons you might think, just because I’m not American. I trust them, I trust their votes, they’re intelligent.

But…what IF he’ll be the next President? Which I personally consider impossible. In that case it would become a worldwide problem. I mean: banning all Muslims from America?! That’s enough! One Hitler was enough! There couldn’t be a bigger gift to terrorists. Given his steady consensus, I’ve changed my mind and here I am.

What’s his political tactic anyway? Or should we call it hysteria? Surely he has done a big favour to his fellow GOP contenders. Let’s also remember that those contenders have previously received money from Trump when he wasn’t running. When you use for your own purposes all the trash of a Country to tap into in order to win the race, can you call it tactic or merely opportunism? When you exploit racial tensions, religion tensions and terrorism for your interest and not for the higher interests of your Country, can you call it tactic? Can a frontrunner be called that way if he doesn’t play by the rules? Surely it works wonderfully: polls speak for themselves. But what kind of “man” are you? In my view that’s like buying your (controversial) votes, nothing less!

In my Country we had a “man” like that who won the elections making easy promises and we learned our bitter lesson the hard way: almost got kicked out of the European Union. That “man” was Berlusconi. Donald Trump is just appealing to racism and general anger, he goes straight to xenophobia. How convenient. What’s left? Oh, yes: mass deportation of American Muslims. That could be a little bit problematic, though, because so many of them are in the Army….ouch! Much easier with the Mexicans….(?)

But I don’t think the “unthinkable” will really happen, as he leads among Republicans but not among all Americans, Democrats included obviously. It’s not up to me to decide if remaining contenders would be up to their future job, whereas they certainly are too many now and this is also pushing Trump ahead.

He’s defying all the rules for one reason: the more he’s outrageous, the more he dominates the coverage thanks to TV networks which are interested merely in increasing their audience. And that is free, abundant advertisement for Trump as he grabs the spotlight every single day. One thing Trump could do if elected would certainly be to rewrite the Constitution and sadly the Thirteenth Amendment would allow that: I can only imagine the treacherous consequences. Banning all Muslims from America would be nothing compared: as I already said, one Hitler had been more than enough.

A ban ridiculous and dangerous: he’ll be realizing this very soon when his own business in the Middle East diminishes. Maybe even the polls are ridiculous: not to be misunderstood I’ll remember you December 2007 had Clinton with an 18 points lead over Obama. Who’s the President now? Trump might capture the GOP nomination only because is threatening to run as an independent, but is it meaningful given the way he’s campaigning?

In more than one previous posts I said that this is exactly what ISIS want: every Muslim to feel alienated. Thank God now the President is Obama. Trump, with his infantile threats of massive bombings (bombs: a very simple solution for an extremely complicated problem) is merely doing an enormous damage to Obama’s ability to lead a coalition. Unrealistic claims made by a xenophobic man. When enough will be enough?!

When Trump will be nominated as the GOP presidential nominee. But at that point it’ll be too late: they will lose total control over the image of their party, besides of course losing the presidential election, that’s for sure and that’s what they deserve. So what are they ready to do to stop this pseudo-Hitler?    

America should be a more confident nation unafraid to welcome newcomers. One of its founding principles is freedom of religion: among those who founded America were those fleeing religious persecution.

Dump Trump. No more words are needed.

….Always humble,

Angiolino