Matt Taibbi has been quiet for a couple of weeks, but he's back with a "must read" story on the Presidential race and the Donald J. Trump phenomenon....it's a cogent analysis of why Trump is so popular, and according to Taibbi it's because of the corruption of our political system and the unfairness of life in America in general.
Forget the pundits - forget the talking heads on TV - this article is the real deal, and should either make you very excited that Trump as our President is possible, or terrified.
Either way - read it.....I
am sending this single item out as a Special because I haven't read a more important story this year on our politics. In my opinion Taibbi is the best political writer we have, and this is a brilliant piece.
am sending this single item out as a Special because I haven't read a more important story this year on our politics. In my opinion Taibbi is the best political writer we have, and this is a brilliant piece.
T
he first thing you notice at Donald Trump's rallies is the confidence. Amateur psychologists have wishfully diagnosed him from afar as insecure, but in person the notion seems absurd.
Donald Trump, insecure? We should all have such problems
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At the Verizon Giganto-Center in Manchester the night before the New Hampshire primary, Trump bounds onstage to raucous applause and the booming riffs of the Lennon-McCartney anthem "Revolution." The song is, hilariously, a cautionary tale about the perils of false prophets peddling mindless revolts, but Trump floats in on its grooves like it means the opposite. When you win as much as he does, who the hell cares what anything means?
He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he's perfected over the past months. It's a nodding wave, a grin, a half-sneer, and a little U.S. Open-style applause back in the direction of the audience, his face the whole time a mask of pure self-satisfaction.
"This is unbelievable, unbelievable!" he says, staring out at a crowd of about 4,000 whooping New Englanders with snow hats, fleece and beer guts. There's a snowstorm outside and cars are flying off the road, but it's a packed house.
He flashes a thumbs-up. "So everybody's talking about the cover of Time magazine last week. They have a picture of me from behind, I was extremely careful with my hair ... "
He strokes his famous flying fuzz-mane. It looks gorgeous, like it's been recently fed. The crowd goes wild. Whoooo! Trump!
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