From Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
December 9th, 2015
There’s no possibility way he can win, his critics say. There isn’t?
He’s been running for half a year now and for most of that time, he’s been ahead in the polls.
Donald Trump, drawing cheers and high poll numbers for sweeping political correctness aside and telling it the way he sees it.
So consider the possibility that in little more than a year from now, we Canadians could have a major-league bigot with a record of trashing anyone who gets in his way running the country right next to us.
And won’t that be great for Canada/U.S. relations – unless we just tow the line and go along with him on everything from banning the immigration of all people Muslim to , as he’s put it, bombing the “sh–” out of ISIS and anyone else(most likely Muslim’s) who happens to get in the way.
I’m talking about billionaire tycoon and U.S. Republican presidential contender Donald Trump and all his latest bluster about blocking every person of the Muslim faith from entry to his country – an idea that has him strengthening his lead in the polls has even been embraced by some Canadians, judging by letters to the editor and calls to radio talk shows.
Through the stench of all this, the New York Daily News, a newspaper tabloid that has also hitting hard on gun violence lately, published a front page this December 9th that gets two thumbs up from this Canadian, anyway. It pins the donkey tail right where it belongs so I share it below for all of you who may be wish all here it is below.
Trump also has England swinging at him for recently saying that police are afraid to go into some London neighbourhoods because of “radicalized” Muslims that have moved in their.
That claim prompted the following response from London’ England’s Mayor Boris Johnson;
London, England Mayor Boris Johnson rips into Trump
“As a city where more than 300 languages are spoken, London has a proud history of tolerance and diversity and to suggest there are areas where police officers cannot go because of radicalisation is simply ridiculous,” Johnson said.
“Crime has been falling steadily both in London and in New York ,” he added, and “the only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump,”
That was quite a shot coming from the mayor of one of the world’s major cities. But none of that sort of criticism or editorial punches from the media seems to matter to Americans who are so put off with establishment politicians and the mainstream media that growing numbers of them turn to Trump every time another politician or journalist takes a run at him.
Like Time magazine noted in a cover story Trump’s rhetoric, however repugnant it may seem to some, is tapping into a fear and anger that is out there and the rest of us are left to “deal with it.”
And that shouldn’t just mean how do we deal with the possibility of a President Donald Trump saying and doing things that may not only have a profound impact on his country, but on ours and othes around the world.
We also need to deal with whatever put all of that fear and anger there in the first place.
At least some of that fear and anger may have been caused by the same politicians and m media outlets that are now bashing Trump.
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