squeak: What Sam said, sort of. What I think about Trump is immaterial- it’s the way he’s attracting people, the kind of people he’s attracting, and what the people are hearing and want, that disturbs me more. It’s not whether Trump is a nationalist, it’s that the people he’s attracting are nationalists. Whatever he may believe, he’s espousing populism and people want it and are hearing it.
I think it’s a bit generous to say that he identifies with America so much in such personal terms that those are his motivations… I see it as just him being a forceful person who’s used to wheeling, dealing and getting what he wants. He always gets what he wants and when he’s in charge of America, America will get what it wants because he’ll be the one getting it for us.
I never hated Obama, though I’ve disliked him more and more recently for various reasons, but I think that bombast and political inexperience are not what we need right now. I don’t need the government tied up in order to prove some kind of a point about how Democrats are awful. I can’t stand Cruz for various reasons, but at least he’d just start political battles, like a politician, you know? Life as usual. Trump would be a bull in a china shop and we can’t risk so much breaking. I think there’s a value sometimes in leaving politics to the politicians.
Sam2: That’s fair, about Wallace. It puts it in more American terms.