Donald
Trump is the disruptor Americans have been seeking since the Reagan Era. He is the Establishment’s worst
nightmare.
The
second Presidential Debate displayed all the elements of the epic struggle
between Trump and his movement versus the Clinton-Liberal-Media forces arrayed
against him.
Starting
in 2008, Presidential Debates have been ritualized slaughter of the Republican
nominee. Think of a Bull Fight. The Republicans, McCain, Romney, Trump, are
the bull. The Democrats, Obama, Clinton,
are the Matadors. The ultimate
destruction of the Republican is never in doubt. Opportunities are given for the
Republican/bull to charge around the arena.
This provides the audience with some suspense and builds the reputation
of the Democrat/Matador as a brave fighter.
The
media moderators are the Picadores. They
are mounted on their dais/horse with dazzling finery. Their elaborate maneuvers are designed to
distract the Republican/bull. They are
armed with questions/lances to wound the Republican/bull.
Once in
each debate cycle there is a “town meeting format”. This is where supposedly undecided voters ask
unscripted questions of the candidates.
In fact, these forums bring in Banderilleros who plunge sharped barbed
sticks into the Republican/bull to prepare for the Democrat’s/Matador’s final
assault.
The
second Presidential Debate was a classic display of Banderilleros. You had the sympathetic sounding female
Muslim asking about tolerance. You had
the sympathetic sounding African-American female asking about unity. You had the white guy asking about how to
balance energy needs with the environment.
All were designed to place Trump/the bull into awkward positions while giving
Hillary/the Matador maximum opportunity to pander within her comfort zone.
Trump
is not your ordinary Republican/bull. In
the first debate, he fell victim to the Matador and Picadores. He stormed and charged the Matador’s cape and
was wounded by the Picadores questions.
Only because Trump was stronger than previous “bulls” did he survive to
fight another day.
Unlike
previous “bulls”, Trump adjusted his game plan.
He was not going to play the “Bull Fight” game under the Establishment’s
rules. The second “Bull Fight” had Hillary, the Matador, conducting a
preemptive wounding with the “leak” of Trump’s off-putting “hot mic”
audiotape. The Establishment’s goal was
that Republicans would do what they do best, flee from the fray. Trump was supposed to spend the forty eight
hours prior to the debate in disarray with falling polls, pundit assaults, and
everyone abandoning him, including his running mate and campaign team.
Trump
outwitted his assailants. The day of the
debate, he called a news conference, not to withdraw, but to open his own
barrage against the Clintons. For the first time in decades, a Republican
unmasked the Establishment’s hypocrisy.
The media has protected Democrats, and championed counter culture, since
the 1960s. Trump embracing the women who
were abused by the Clintons was a game changer.
How can the media and Hillary say every abused women should be heard,
when they were the ones who silenced these women? How could the media feign indignation over
Trump’s “hot mic” comments when they defended Bill Clinton’s affairs by
asserting people should look at the
public record not the private one?
Then
came the debate itself. Trump wisely did
not try to shake Hillary’s hand. He
assumed she had a well-rehearsed moment of ostracism coordinated with the
moderators. Then Trump did the
equivalent of the bull pulling out an Uzi and opening fire on the
Bullfighters. For most of the ninety
minute debate, Trump indicted Hillary, Bill, the moderators, and the
Establishment. Trump tore off their
masks. Liberal lies and misdeeds of the
last twenty years spilled into the public record.
No
Republican Presidential nominee has ever assaulted the Democrats and the media
with such a sustained onslaught. Years
of passivity vanished. The bull was not
going to slaughter without first taking out the Matador, the Picadores, and
their fans. Chaos ensued.
Whether
Trump’s high stakes gamble changes the campaign enough to win the Presidency
remains to be seen. Trump exposed the
game. Trump eviscerated the
gamesmen. For at least one amazing
moment the bull won. Trump changed the game.
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