Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Trump

Quoting from the New York Times....

The tragedy of the 2016 campaign is that Trump has mobilized a constituency with legitimate grievances on a fool's errand. 

If he is shoved out of the field somehow, his supporters will remain bitter and enraged, convinced that a self-serving and malign elite defeated their leader.

If he prevails, a constituency that could force politicians to confront the problems of the working and middle class will waste its energies on a candidate incompetent to improve the lives of the credulous men and women lining up to support him.

To read the full article please see

http://nyti.ms/1SgSInP

This is an exceptional analysis of why we find ourselves in the midst of a most troubling period of our economic and political history.

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