Wednesday, January 20, 2016

"Like Palin, Trump has mastered the art of the interminable ramble, the purpose of which is not to..."

“Like Palin, Trump has mastered the art of the interminable ramble, the purpose of which is not to convey meaning or to advance a useful argument but to stun the audience into dumb submission. Like Palin, Trump has embraced his ignorance and wielded it as a sign of strength and normality against the ever-protean “elite.” And, like Palin, Trump has betrayed his desire to fix the political system not by mastering or replacing it, but by becoming it. This isn’t an insurgency, it’s a shakedown.”

- Charles Cook, Sarah Palin’s Donald Trump Endorsement Was Inevitable

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/137682781972

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