Garrison Keillor on Trump: When this is over, you will have nothing that you want

[jaysunb]

he cap does not look good on you, it's a duffer's cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor running. The brim shadows your face, which gives a sinister look, as if you'd come to town to announce the closing of the pulp factory. Your eyes look dead and your scowl does not suggest American greatness so much as American indigestion. Your hair is the wrong color: People don't want a president to be that shade of blond. You know that now.

Why doesn't someone in your entourage dare to say these things? So sad. The fans in the arenas are wild about you, and Sean Hannity is as loyal as they come, but Rudy and Christie and Newt are reassuring in that stilted way of hospital visitors. And The New York Times treats you like the village idiot. This is painful for a Queens boy trying to win respect in Manhattan where the Times is the Supreme Liberal Jewish Anglican Arbiter of Who Has The Smarts and What Goes Where. When you came to Manhattan 40 years ago, you discovered that in entertainment, the press, politics, finance, everywhere you went, you ran into Jews, and they are not like you: Jews didn't go in for big yachts and a fleet of aircraft — they showed off by way of philanthropy or by raising brilliant offspring. They sympathized with the civil rights movement. In Queens, blacks were a threat to property values — they belonged in the Bronx, not down the street. To the Times, Queens is Cleveland. Bush league. You are Queens. The casinos were totally Queens, the gold faucets in your triplex, the bragging, the insults, but you wanted to be liked by Those People. You wanted Mike Bloomberg to invite you to dinner at his townhouse. You wanted the Times to run a three-part story about you, that you meditate and are a passionate kayaker and collect 14th-century Islamic mosaics. You wish you were that person but you didn't have the time.
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[dhill926]

1. comments section is a real eye opener...

a good look into the Trump supporters mindset. Talk about living in a bubble...

[riversedge]

3. Agree. But many were quite tame when contrasted to twitter comments by his cult fans.

[riversedge]

2. "You are their guy. You are losing and so are they but they love you for it." I am not

even trying to understand his fans anymore.

[ginnyinWI]

4. That one word he used sums up Trump perfectly.

Vulgar.

And his fans don't care because they are too. They want something they can't have and he's promising it so they've put their faith in him. But it's a dream: going back to the past and living the way they think it used to be. The wonderful, idealized past where white people were better than everyone else, especially white males, and they ran the show.

This has happened before: Lincoln emancipated the slaves and poor white Southerners felt threatened by competition for their jobs and resources and their leaders took advantage of their fears. They signed up to go to war for old Dixieland and to try to keep their traditional way of life.

[yurbud]

5. the South is a good example for understanding poor whites

Through at least the Jim Crow era, there was a thin white middle class, but the rich kept the rest of whites under control by using then to keep blacks under control and reminding them that no matter how shitty their life was, at least they weren't black.

I think some have realized that at least in economic terms, they as individuals aren't necessarily better than blacks. illegal immigrants, or Muslims.

But they can't bring themselves to take the next logical step and join forces with those other groups.

[ncjustice80]

6. Once the election is over, will the FBI be investigating his shady land deals, campaign funds, and

his unlawful release of classified information? HRC needs to go HARD on this son of a bitch when this is over!