{"id":4341,"date":"2016-09-12T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2017-11-14T21:27:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T19:27:37","slug":"love-vs-hate-clinton-vs-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/love-vs-hate-clinton-vs-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Love VS Hate; CLINTON VS TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"
The visit of Donald Trump to Mexico and his extraordinarily clumsy speech on immigration that followed Wednesday<\/span><\/span> evening have pre-empted a column on Russia.\u00a0 While Mr. Trump may have reinforced his base, if elected, he has set in place a non-declared war with Mexico.<\/div>\n
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This is not 1846 and the Mexican-American War we won.\u00a0 Nor is there a single chance in the world that Mexico would pay for this great wall Mr. Trump would build to seal the border with south. America does have thousands of miles of sea coasts as well as a longer border with Canada.\u00a0 What would Mr. Trump do with those?<\/div>\n
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But the larger issue is what makes Donnie run?\u00a0 Why, despite all the nonsensical and often contradictory comments he makes, is Mr. Trump still competitive in the presidential sweepstakes? To many journalists as well as outside observers, this question begs a good answer.\u00a0 Defeating sixteen presidential aspirants in the primary, several of whom were far more qualified, with bluster, blather and insults was a remarkable feat.\u00a0 Now, in most polls, the gap is closing with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.<\/div>\n
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The answer is strikingly obvious yet hidden in plain sight.\u00a0 Two of the most powerful human emotions are love and hate.\u00a0 Neither candidate is winning in the love category.\u00a0 The unfavorability ratings of both are at Guinness Book of Records levels.<\/div>\n
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Hillary is disliked and in some cases hated, seen as untrustworthy, morally conflicted with competing interests and incapable of telling the truth. As bad, she is a Clinton and will never eradicate that stain and the memories of Bill. Trump however is the beneficiary of this hatred.<\/div>\n
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The reason why Trump so far is making this a race far closer than it should be is clear.\u00a0 Perhaps a majority and surely a large plurality of Americans are fearful and worried about the future for themselves, their children and grandchildren.\u00a0 The middle and lower classes are beset with the rising costs of health care, schooling, living and virtually every other economic category.\u00a0 Wages are not keeping pace.\u00a0 Working two jobs often is not enough to pay the bills.<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, the one percent is getting richer.\u00a0 Hedge fund managers, Wall Street bankers, high technology CEO\u2019s and people with large stock portfolios are making tens, hundreds and even thousands of millions of dollars a year. To many, the system is rigged.\u00a0 And while the Clinton Foundation may not have broken a single law or broached any ethical standards, it is widely seen as a sign of this corruption.<\/div>\n
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Fear translates into anger.\u00a0 This is as true on the battlefield as it is in kitchen tables across the nation.\u00a0 Anecdotally, millions of Americans are angered with the failure of government to govern.\u00a0 One example: Zika is on the march and Congress refuses to appropriate money to contain it.\u00a0 When the president is forced to rely on executive orders to bypass Congressional gridlock, he is obviously assuming dictatorial and unconstitutional powers.<\/div>\n
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The success of Trump\u2019s entire campaign will be based on mobilizing this anger, hostility and in some cases hatred against the status quo and use it to overwhelm Hillary, the do nothing differently candidate. Hence, and this is the key point, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHAT TRUMP SAYS.\u00a0 Many Americans are neither listening to nor interested in the messages that are often incoherent and always contradictory.\u00a0 Flip-flopping does not adequately describe the quicksilver like quality of what Trump says.<\/div>\n
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Trump supporters only care about the messenger. And to win, the messenger must harshen his attacks against \u201cLyin\u2019 Hillary;\u201d question her physical and mental health and stamina; challenge the Clinton Foundation as the reincarnation of Tammany Hall corrupt Democratic politics of the late 19th<\/sup> century; and demand a special prosecutor for investigating the E-mail scandal to send Hillary to jail.<\/div>\n
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The ensuing six weeks to the election will no doubt see the nastiest political campaign since campaigns were recorded.\u00a0 The Willy Horton ad used against Governor Michael Dukakis and the Lyndon Johnson \u201cdaisy\u201d commercial ending with a mushroom cloud implying Senator Barry Goldwater would start a nuclear war will be mild by comparison.\u00a0 Energizing and intensifying hatred will be the only means by which Mr. Trump can sufficiently tar Mrs. Clinton to eek out a victory in November.<\/div>\n
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What can the Clinton campaign do?\u00a0 In some ways, she has a George H. W. Bush problem in reverse.\u00a0 How could a president with a 90% approval rating in late 1991 lose to a \u201cwomanizing, draft dodging, pot smoking\u201d opponent?\u00a0 Similarly, how can a candidate with Hillary\u2019s resume lose to totally flawed, likely incompetent, loud mouthed buffoon with absolutely no experience in government?<\/div>\n
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In the tension between love and hate, when one of those emotions is at best tepid, the outcome is certain.\u00a0 In this case, tragically, hate can win out.\u00a0 Fear, manifested as anger, is powerful.\u00a0 Mr. Trump has tapped into this vein of seeming political electoral gold.\u00a0 But knowledgeable people will realize that vein will turn out to be fool\u2019s gold.\u00a0 And the nation will have to wait until 2020 until we get two candidates who deserve to be president by virtue of their character and disposition; experience and judgment.<\/div>\n
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Harlan Ullman is UPI\u2019s Arnaud de Borchgrave Distinguished Columnist and serves as Senior Advisor for Supreme Allied Commander Europe and at the Atlantic Council and at Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and chairs two private companies. \u00a0<\/i>His last book is A Handful of Bullets:\u00a0 How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace. <\/i>His next book due out next year is Anatomy of Failure:\u00a0 Why America Loses Wars It Starts.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The visit of Donald Trump to Mexico and his extraordinarily clumsy speech on immigration that followed Wednesday evening have pre-empted a column on Russia.\u00a0 While Mr. Trump may have reinforced his base, if elected, he has set in place a non-declared war with Mexico. This is not 1846 and the Mexican-American War we won.\u00a0 Nor is there a single chance in the world that Mexico would pay for this great wall Mr. Trump would build to seal the border with south. America does have thousands of miles of sea coasts as well as a longer border with Canada.\u00a0 What would Mr. Trump do with those? But the larger issue is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-harlan-ullman-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cass-ro.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}