Paul Johnson on Trump
Paul Johnson on Trump, Power Line,
The great British historian Paul Johnson is not the first to point out that the most significant aspect of Trump is his direct challenge to political correctness, but few have put it as strongly as he does in his latest Forbes column, “When Excess Is a Virtue.” Excerpt:
The U.S. has been inundated with PC inquisitors, and PC poison is spreading worldwide in the Anglo zone.
For these reasons it’s good news that Donald Trump is doing so well in the American political primaries. He is vulgar, abusive, nasty, rude, boorish and outrageous. He is also saying what he thinks and, more important, teaching Americans how to think for themselves again.
No one could be a bigger contrast to the spineless , pusillanimous and underdeserving Barack Obama, who has never done a thing for himself and is entirely the creation of reverse discrimination. The fact that he was elected President–not once, but twice–shows how deep-set the rot is and how far along the road to national impotence the country has traveled. . .
None of the Republican candidates trailing Trump has the character to reverse this deplorable declension. The Democratic nomination seems likely to go to the relic of the Clinton era, herself a patiently assembled model of political correctness, who is carefully instructing America’s most powerful pressure groups in what they want to hear and whose strongest card is the simplistic notion that the U.S. has never had a woman President and ought to have one now, merit being a secondary consideration. . .
Trump is a man of excess–and today a man of excess is what’s needed.
Further and similar thoughts from Conrad Black here.
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WarSclerotic 
May 9, 2016 at 8:25 AM
“. . . it’s good news that Donald Trump is doing so well in the American political primaries. He is vulgar, abusive, nasty, rude, boorish and outrageous.”
That he is. And as yet has failed to offer a single positive thought to effective governance. Non-US presidents, pm’s, kings, and mullahs will be slapping their thighs for the next seven months. Then, should the oaf with the orange marmalade hair actually win, things will grow suddenly quite. And cold.
May 9, 2016 at 3:49 PM
And the “oaf with the marmalade hair”, who is vulgar, abusive, nasty, rude, boorish and rude would actually lead this country, and without a doubt, be a superior president to the racist, arrogant, lying, socialist, self-centered, destructive, American-hating jackass that we have now.
Only liberals choose a leader by how they look.
May 9, 2016 at 5:25 PM
Bingo!
May 10, 2016 at 2:34 AM
Now support from
Hubbard Broadcasting CEO and billionaire GOP donor Stanley Hubbard and
GOP Mega donor Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot, says he’s now “all in” for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
May 9, 2016 at 4:08 PM
Funny, for a minute there I thought you were talking about your supposed heroine, Hillary Rotten Clinton.