By Hunter Wallace
“From Malmö comes the news that the Sweden Democrats, scrubbed-up neo-fascists who have forsaken the Roderick Spode uniforms, have become Sweden’s most popular political party, commanding the allegiance of a quarter of Swedish voters. …
“We are all national socialists now,” he writes. Some models are a little more nationalist (Trump) and some are a little more socialist (Sanders), but both reject laissez-faire categorically. “Hitler was not the founder of National Socialism, not even in Germany,” Lukacs writes, “but he recognized the potential marriage of nationalism with socialism, and also the practical — and not merely rhetorical — primacy of nationalism within that marriage. . . . He also knew that old-fashioned capitalism was gone; that belonged to the 19th century.” …
Nonetheless there is a large overlap between those who put immigration restriction at the center of their agenda and those who oppose free trade, and they share the assumption that economic interactions with foreigners absent government guidance toward the “national interest” is necessarily destructive. It is not that there is no such thing as the national interest: We have an intense and necessary interest in what’s going on in Pyongyang at the moment, and what happens in Syria, whether our borders are secure, whether our banking regulations put us at a global disadvantage.”
We have a “national interest” in Syria, but deporting illegal aliens sounds like something straight out of Hitler’s playbook.
Williamson looks like a son of Kruschev.
Blatant presstitution!
You know what?
Every time in my country somebody comes up with some proposal for legalizing prostitution, I think to myself: “That’s great! Journalists would finally be able to practice the profession under the sun!”
@Marc Bahn: You meant *Cuckshev*, right?
The famous sovietic cuckold-in-chief who sent countless bulls to the gulags, once they couldn’t satisfy his wife anymore.
Yep, that’s the fella. The one still looking for his shoe.
Off topic, but related to the exchanges you, I, and some of your other commenters had at your two earlier posts, “Trump’s Mobile Rally” and “Are Republicans for Freedom or White Identity Politics?” At National Review Online, a writer named Quin Hillyer has an August 22 piece headed “In Alabama, Trump’s Wizard of Oz Act Leaves Some Fans Underwhelmed.” Although Hillyer doesn’t think the Mobile rally was a “total bust” (which, as you know, is what I deemed it), he hardly thinks it was a success. First three paragraphs:
“Toto the dog wasn’t needed in Mobile, Ala., Friday night to pull the curtain from behind The Great and Mighty Trump. Trump let his own curtain flutter open, showing to much of the audience the humbug within.
“In an hour-long verbal meanderthon at half-filled Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Trump allowed an atmosphere of electric excitement to dissipate, and then he split town without his promised post-show press conference. As I left the stadium, a red-hatted lady of my acquaintance spotted me and pulled me aside, saying: ‘Somebody needs to tell that man when to shut the you-know-what up. People were leaving in droves.’
“Well, not entirely droves, but by my estimate, about 15–20 percent of the 18,000 or so attendees — Trump publicity organs had earlier said they expected up to 35,000 — had filed out before Trump wound up his many-versed hymn to his own toughness and deal-making skills.”
Having looked at a few of the comments over there, at National Review, I know that some of the readers of Hillyer’s article have dismissed it as a “typical NRO hit piece on Trump”–phrases to that effect. We’ll see.
The article is at http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422942/trump-wizard-oz-look-behind-curtain
John, why are you pushing this ridiculous line that so aligns with what cucktards are pushing?
As Jim Giles said, “I agree his Mobile rally was a complete bust if you compare him to Hitler. Otherwise, get fucking real.”
When I said I thought the rally was a bust, Jim Giles and you reacted as if I were hallucinatory, Marc. Maybe you’re right; on the other hand, it’s possible you’re the ones who need to “get real,” i.e., to avoid letting your own enthusiasm for Trump influence your assessment of his campaigning. If Trump’s campaign survives and even flourishes without a conspicuous change in his speechmaking style, well, then, I’ll say I was wrong about Mobile. If it doesn’t, Jim and you, I’m sure, will do the same.
Today former NY governor Pataki called Trump (at least his immigration plan) “unAmerican, outrageous, demogogic.”
This, and all the Hitler name calling and references, makes it impossible for the Repub political class to get behind Trump if he wins the nomination. I sense a crackup and a President Biden. The end of the Republican Party sooner rather than (inevitable, for demographic reasons) later. And how can Trumpites vote for ¡Jeb! or Rubio or any of the usual suspects, knowing that it means expedited amnesty under GOP auspices? The cuckservatives want that feather in their cap and doesn’t want the Dems to have it. I believe that a cuckservative president with a friendly House and Senate means that the first order of business in 2017, edging out more wars, will be that amnesty.
John, few of us care for Trump’s speaking style.
But it works! Deal with it.
“Deal with it”? What’s that supposed to mean? In the presidential campaign, few things would make me happier than the knowledge that Trump’s speaking style “works.” My concern is that it does not.
John, unfortunately we can only go by the polls. They are generally conducted by orgs interwoven with, if not entirely part of, the regime. And even THEY put T way out front. Imagine how much further out front he probably is. Why mess with success?
As far as I am aware, Marc, there are no announced results of any poll conducted since the Mobile rally.
John Bonaccorsi, Philadelphia // August 22, 2015 at 2:46 am //
~ snip ~
I really don’t follow politics.
~ snip ~
I can’t take you seriously any more, John.
I’m following Trump. I could hardly name any of the other candidates or the offices they hold. Jeb Bush is governor of Florida, I think. Who the hell is Kasich? Who’s Cruz? Marco Rubio–isn’t he from Florida, too?
I don’t know anything about delegates or “must-win” states or any of that other electoral jabber, which is what it seems to me to be. I personally won’t be voting in the election or any other American election. As I’ve said here, at Occidental Dissent, the U.S. Constitution does nothing to protect race or property. To vote in any election conducted in accordance with that Constitution is thus something no white man should do. Still: I’m following Trump.
“The Donald has turned his back on the community amongst whom he made his fortune. They will not forgive him.”
http://www.vdare.com/posts/trump-declares-war-on-war-against-christmas-msm-represses
And your point is?
My last post was not directed to you, John. Hence, no “John,…”. There are other people here.
Apropos of Trump’s speeches.
He sure believes in insisting on a handful of ideas.
However, I now approach every new speech like it were a spot-the-differences kind of game.
I know he’s going to point out how suckers your leaders are.
He’ll talk about his trusted killer-negotiators.
He’ll brag about how great a militarist he would be.
Yet, there’s always some “foreign” point in his tried and trusted performance.
For me, this last speech has been particularly interesting for that “gene matters” bit I pointed out at
https://saboteur365.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/watch-live-monster-crowd-greets-the-donald-in-mobile-happening-now/comment-page-1/#comment-37662
I saw other people mentioning it: I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a small, cheap bait carefully crafted for WN and/or HBDers.
I don’t think he’s a WN himself, mind you.
Bernie Sanders is a Nazi.
April Foo…
Er, sorry, checked the calendar, it’s not April 1.
I think you’re right, Alberto, although I don’t think the bait was necessarily cheap. His immediately following it with a reference to the racehorse Secretariat meant that he intended it to be heard. Whether it was only bait is less important than that he mentioned it.
Yes, I noticed I wasn’t addressed in that post of yours, Marc. The rhythm of our exchange was such that the post seemed to me to be directed to me. In attempting to diminish me, with your snide remark about there being “other people here,” you demonstrate white ineffectiveness. Rather than engage in a serious exchange with someone who’s raised a question about the prospects of a candidate whom you now apparently idolize, in the manner of a teenage girl, you try to neutralize the criticism by eliminating the critic. Congratulations, you’re the poster boy of a perishing race.
Quin Hillyer: “Well, not entirely droves, but by my estimate, about 15–20 percent of the 18,000 or so attendees — Trump publicity organs had earlier said they expected up to 35,000 — had filed out before Trump wound up his many-versed hymn to his own toughness and deal-making skills.”
We must remember the media cannot be trusted. Crowd estimates are usually manipulated higher for lefties and radicals like Bernie Sanders, reduced for their opponents.
It seems that every article written since Trump’s Alabama rally the estimates keep going down. By next week it will be said more people attended a midget wrestling match the same evening in Mobile.
Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump Aug 22 New Jersey, USA
It has just been confirmed by the City of Mobile, Alabama, that there were 30,000 people at last nights event, making it #1for pol season.
Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump Aug 22 New Jersey, USA
I had 15,000 people in Phoenix but @politico said “the rooms capacity is just over 2000.” But said Bernie Sanders had 11,000 in same room.
Dear John,
Nuts.
P.S.: How old are you?
If you’ll check the news articles about the City of Mobile’s estimate of the crowd size, Sam, you’ll see that the spokesman who said 30,000 added something like, “That’s just an estimate.” Even if 30,000 is accurate, so, what? Trump’s campaign apparently lacked the discipline to prevent pre-rally reports that the gates were going to be blown off the stadium, by a crowd of thirty to forty thousand. Tell me whether you think Trump would tolerate such anti-climactic hype about, say, the appearance of a performer at one of his casinos (if he still owns casinos). Neither of us knows whether Trump himself counted the rally as a success; but if he did and if, accordingly, he makes no significant changes in his campaigning, particularly his speechmaking, he’ll be in trouble, I think. That’s all I’ve been saying.
Sixty-one, Marc.
And let me give you a little tip about white etiquette: When you put a question like that, you preface it with something like “If you don’t mind my asking.”
That narrows my suspicions, John. I figured you either had an anti-T stake in it – freelance or not, or were very young, or retarded. I doubted the age factor, so thought I’d ask.
I have to tell you though that you’re overdoing it, as in ‘thou protesteth too much’ about T’s viability.
I’m glad you now know that I’m simply very young, Marc.
John Bonaccorsi,
‘If you’ll check the news articles about the City of Mobile’s estimate of the crowd size, Sam, you’ll see that the spokesman who said 30,000 added something like, “That’s just an estimate.” Even if 30,000 is accurate, so, what? Trump’s campaign apparently lacked the discipline to prevent pre-rally reports that the gates were going to be blown off the stadium, by a crowd of thirty to forty thousand.’
Could weather have been a factor?
John, I watched the live feed from the beginning about an hour before the event kicked off.
The commentators said something about reports of bad and threatening weather all across the state. It could impact the numbers of people showing up.
Internet: But under a threatening sky and in between cutting comments, he did crack wise about his hair.
“Who cares if it rains, right?” he asked. “If it rains, I’ll take off my hat, and I’ll prove once and for all that it’s mine.”
I can believe weather was a factor, Sam. I can believe, too, that the stadium is in a bad neighborhood, as one of the commenters at the NRO article said. (I think we can conclude the commenter meant a black neighborhood.)
All of that seems to me irrelevant. The campaign’s task is to “manage expectations.” If, say, the response to the announcement of the event was so unexpectedly positive that, as the campaign said pre-rally, a venue larger than the originally-intended one had quickly to be found, well, then, Trump himself should have said as much. He should have said something like, “I really don’t know how many persons are going to be there. I’m not sure we can fill a stadium like that–not at this early point in the campaign; but apparently, any other place available in Mobile would have been too small for all the persons who want to attend. Whatever the turnout, I’ll be happy to see every person there.”
Did a little more digging around.
http://wiat.com/2015/08/21/tens-of-thousands-expected-at-al-trump-rally/
(snip) But event organizers ultimately settled on Ladd-Peebles Stadium, one of the largest venues in south Alabama.
“The people are speaking,” Trump said. “It’s an amazing thing, it’s like a movement.”
The only concern now is the weather. Mobile has experienced a steady stream of storms so far this week, with showers in the forecast in the coming days.
News 5 is told organizers are exploring back-up plans in the event that the rally is rained-out.
Yes, I’d heard those pre-rally reports about possible adverse weather, Sam. As I say, the problem, for me, is how the campaign handled things. On the night of the rally, I went so far as to say here, at Occidental Dissent, that the anti-climax meant Trump was finished, that he’d crested. Actually, that still seems to me to be a strong possibility; but should Trump recover his trajectory, he’ll do so only with big changes to his campaigning. Well–that’s my view, which, at this point, I’ve made clear enough, I suppose.
John Bonaccorsi, Philadelphia
Maybe consider stepping away from US Presidential politics, the horse race (who’s pulling ahead, who s falling behind) and consider handicapping real horse races they still exist.
A view from the continent:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/trump-rally-in-mobile-alabama/
I still think Williamson looks like the spawn of Nikita, party suck-up extraordinaire. These things are too coincidental to be a coincidence.
Thanks for letting me know real horse races still exist, Jack. Not being a white male idler, I had no idea. In suggesting I’m following this presidential campaign as a horse race, you are incorrect, as you are with remarkable consistency at this website. I’ve simply talked about the prospects for Trump, who has caused some excitement at this website over the past two weeks or so and whom I personally have always found interesting. As I made clear above, I hardly know the identity of the other candidates and have no intention of voting in any American election. Within the past year or two, our host, Hunter Wallace, arrived at the conclusion that American electoral politics are pointless. As a person who never followed such politics, I was a bit surprised that he, who is no fool, had taken them seriously as long as he had. When I was first visiting this website, years ago, it struck me as odd that he took those politics seriously; but now he is like me, in that he knows it’s all worthless, even if an occasional figure like Trump makes it interesting to follow. As I recall, you wept like a toddler, here at Occidental Dissent, the morning after Obama was reelected–or was it at his first election? I care so little I can’t even remember. You’re the one, in short, whose focus is misdirected. Well–don’t let me hold you up any longer; I know you have to get over to Chevy Chase, to tell George Will he stinks.
http://i.imgur.com/rNEVraB.png
I’m wondering, who would associate Abraham Lincoln with ‘limited government’?
John Bonaccorsi,
‘On the night of the rally, I went so far as to say here, at Occidental Dissent, that the anti-climax meant Trump was finished, that he’d crested. Actually, that still seems to me to be a strong possibility; but should Trump recover his trajectory, he’ll do so only with big changes to his campaigning. Well–that’s my view, which, at this point, I’ve made clear enough, I suppose.’
You may be correct, but I don’t think he’s finished by a long shot.
He came on so strong, so early, that it will be hard for him to sustain momentum, for sure.
It would be damn near impossible to keep energy and excitement at peak levels throughout the year. Bound to level off drastically sooner or later.
I doubt his campaign will need to make any major adjustments. Only minor tweaks here and there.
Everything in politics is spin.
I remember going to a Reagan campaign rally held in a union hall in Cudahy Wi.
There was a line of supporters braving the heat and high humidity all the way down the street and around the corner.
Parking lot full, cops directing away traffic.
When I finally got inside the building it was packed with people wall to wall. The atmosphere was electric.
Yup, the room couldn’t contain the overflowing crowd of boisterous, fired-up Reaganites.
Great publicity. Sounds really good.
No one cared that the room’s capacity was at best 800 people.
Yeah, a thousand folks showing up at a venue holding 800 was a huge campaign success.
But 30,000 people in a stadium holding more than 40,000 is considered a major disappointment.
Just how it is.
I think you’re right, Sam. That’s “just how it is.” We’ll see how Trump fares. In the latter 1980s, maybe, when, as far as I know, he first came onto the scene–in a very big way–I read an article, maybe in Newsweek, in which he said he had no trouble conversing, at dinners, with intellectuals, even if he wasn’t familiar with the topics they were discussing. He said something like, “It’s a matter of attitude”–as if he could fake it. At the time, I discussed that with a friend who’d long struck me as savvy about the general ways of the world and who, basically, was favorably disposed toward Trump, as I was. The instant I told my said friend of that statement by Trump, the eyes of him (my friend) narrowed. “I think he might be overestimating himself on that one,” he said. As I watched a few minutes of the Mobile rally, I had that same feeling, with respect to Trump’s apparent measure of his talent for public speaking. If his campaign appearances are to be effective, his speechmaking will have to undergo more than minor tweaks, I think–but again: we’ll see.
John Bonaccorsi
‘If his campaign appearances are to be effective, his speechmaking will have to undergo more than minor tweaks, I think–but again: we’ll see.’
The content of his speech was pretty good. He probably would be better served cutting back the length. People have a hard time sitting still listening to someone talk for more than twenty minutes in today’s fast paced, frenetic world. They get bored, restless and turn the speaker off no matter the subject.
http://www.amerika.org/politics/the-one-man-they-could-not-cuck/
John B writes:
” but now he is like me, in that he knows it’s all worthless, even if an occasional figure like Trump makes it interesting to follow. ”
I respond, OK, that’s your view. So if you really think it’s all worthless, why spend a lot or really any time following this, making expert commentary on it, handicapping who’s pulling ahead or more likely who is falling behind, losing etc?
It just depresses more people. There are elections where our side can compete, do well, win. Our side has won most/all of the South, the rural Midwest – sure, it’s frustrating that we haven’t seen much come our way from controlling the state houses, but m’thinks that’s because we haven’t learned how to work the local state systems.
There are new Jeff Sessions in lots of places in state and local government in the South – new Joe Arpaio – we just have to find them and then promote them.
This week Amren’s Traitor of the year Rand Paul is trying to buy off the Kentucky Republican primary, change it to a caucus system so Rand doesn’t run in to the legal block that he can’t be on the ballot for both US GOP Presidential Kentucky primary candidate AND US Senate candidate.
OK, so our enemies are gaming the system and sure the system mostly sucks especially at the Presidential level, but we have to work in what’s available to us and simply posting day in day out.
IT’S HOPELESS – WE”RE ALL GOING TO DIE
That’s not helpful.
There are lots of good places in the USA – I just spent a whole week in one – Mason OH just outside of Cincinnati, I was there for the Western and Southern Open Tennis tourney. This is the best tennis tournament in North America ~ 95% White.. It’s healthy, positive, growing – the community is healthy, positive, growing – why not promote things and places like that, get involved, win, become the power structure in local places like that then move up a bit to state – then, only then try to use state and local power to influence national/presidential things.
But, really – just harping day in and day out that all is hopeless – no, not helpful.
Please don’t hang out here and preach negativity, gloom and doom.
Someone has to inform you that their statement wasn’t directed at you(since you seem to have attention-whoring issues) and you go on to talk about White ineffectiveness? Poster boy of a perishing race? That has a distinctly antifa stench to it. Kind of an odd choice of words coming from someone who told me:
And I find it ridiculous that you would try to chastise someone for not having a “serious exchange” with you when you claim to know practically nothing about the other candidates involved and know nothing about delegates, must-win states or any of that other “political jabber.” You even trumpet your own brand of “ineffectiveness” by having no desire to vote in any American elections. You are arguing for the sake of arguing.
I shall keep you as my pet and name you John The Contrarian.
Jack —
I understand what you’re saying, and I’m in sympathy with it. I can’t help thinking that Marc Bahn and you have misunderstood my initial remarks about Trump’s rally in Mobile. I’m pulling for Trump, who, to me, is the only interesting element of the presidential campaign. In saying the Mobile rally was a bust, I wasn’t disparaging him, I was expressing concern. Before the rally, Trump certainly had momentum; then, as both I and the writer at National Review felt, he “allowed an atmosphere of electric excitement to dissipate,” in Mobile. Did Mobile really hurt him, as I’ve said it did? We don’t really know yet; there are, as I said above, no announced results of post-Mobile polls–not to my knowledge, anyway. Should a post-Mobile poll show him still ascendant, I personally will think, “Good–he ducked a bullet.” My view will still be that he’d better not repeat his Mobile performance. Maybe I’ll be wrong. Maybe Trump will continue with speeches just like the one he gave in Mobile and will go all the way to the White House. Great. I’m simply saying that if I were in a position to sit with him for, say, two hours, I’d review with him video of the Mobile rally and point out the many defects of his performance there. If I were required to sum up those defects, I’d say, “He’s listening to himself.” In my amateur view, every failure of public speaking, whether a wedding toast, eulogy, inaugural speech, or what-have-you, is essentially that: “listening to oneself,” as opposed to imagining what the audience is hearing.
Celestial Time —
I won’t respond in detail to your remarks, which I regard as blather. My post immediately above, in reply to Jack, addresses, I think, any real thought that might be buried somewhere in your heap of words.
Antifa much, John?
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I have called John ‘Bone of Contention’ before, in a response to an equally myopic post he made, that I DID care about.
It seems John B, like Guido Joe, likes to post at great length (numbers of posts, not just a post of two of great length- that’s my mea culpa) just so that, by sheer number of utterances, people believe he has something to say.
Sam said it best in either this or another column. Basically, it went like this:
“The Jew York Times says Trump is (fill in the excoriating remark)- I don’t care.”
Me too. I. Don’t. Care.
Trump is White, he’s street savvy, he’s a billionaire (do you realize what that moxie might mean in the face of the Jews that control the FED- “You’re FIRED!”) he’s saying- without saying it- things that Whites have said to each other, and muttered to themselves, since at least Reagan’s day- I’m old enough to remember…And he seems to believe it, or is willing to put his name, his face, his money, and his machismo on the line- the dismissal of that faggot Cuban posing the question about “Anchor babies’ reminded me of the Gipper’s “If it walks like a duck, etc.” statement.
This is old-fashioned MAN TO MAN politics. NONE of the faggy, feminazi ‘touchy-feely’ crap rhetoric of the last thirty years. NOT A BIT OF IT.
And Men (and many women, though they may not be able to articulate it, yet know it in their groin) are Identifying, excited, and aroused (the women) by sheer male verismo on the part of a Political Candidate!
As polls have shown, Men like Putin are ‘sexy’ when given the go-ahead to rule without Jewish subversiveness picking away like old spinsters, at imaginary snags in their carefully woven web of lies…
This is (ostensibly) what John B, the Jews, and the Beltway Cucks are fearing, in their reams of empty criticism, and false stats, and dissuading arguments. Donald Trump is acting like a MAN in politics, and they don’t have the vaguest idea how to either stand up to it, or emulate it, because they’re all cucks, themselves!!
As Sam said, ‘I don’t care.’ Of ALL the candidates, Trump ALONE resonates with me, and we are a YEAR away from the election. If this is what the Germans felt hearing Adolf speak about ‘making Germany great again,’ then ‘sieg heil.’ After FORTY years of onslaughts by the Xenos of the world, after fifty years of post-JFK defeatism, I am more than ready to ‘make America great’- and if that means ‘THEY ALL HAVE TO GO”, then praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Because the same forces at work to demonize Putin, ARE THE SAME ETHNIC TRAITORS THAT ARE DEMONIZING TRUMP… and are the heirs of the men who crucified Christ.
It’s payback time, folks. Christendom is awakening, and we have already passed ‘Peak Jew.’
As has been said, and clearly is coming to pass, “May you live in interesting times.” God stand with the right, and smite our foes.
Two subsequent points:
Irish savant’s article on Mexico’s bloody hands in this whole ‘racism’ matter, called “The Hypocrisy Handicap Hurdles” (Linking URL on the right of OD’s page)
Cambria’s most recent post: “Who will defend Christian Europe?” and a quote from that column:
https://cambriawillnotyield.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/who-will-defend-christian-europe/
“Even before the feminist revolution, which preceded and led to the homosexual revolution, the liberals’ sinister purposes were crystal clear during the civil rights movement, which was really the miscegenation movement. If racial harmony was really the liberals’ goal and not the extermination of whites, the suggestions in such books as American Statesmen on Slavery and the Negro, written in 1971 by Nathaniel Weyl and William Marina, would have been followed. In that book the two authors pointed out that virtually every prominent America statesman, including Abraham Lincoln, suggested some sort of separation of the races for the sake of the white race and the black race. Weyl and Marina proposed that if the right of private association, the right to segregate in schools, housing, and civic organizations, was upheld, then a non-utopian harmony could be achieved between the races. But such moderate, well-thought out proposals were vehemently rejected by the liberals. Why? Hasn’t it become obvious? The liberals do not want racial harmony, they want the extermination of the white race, just as they want to deify Lady Macbeth and destroy Christian marriage. What will it take for white grazers to turn away in disgust and horror from the liberals’ trough?”
Exactly. Thus my stance for Trump as the most recent avatar for European/American White Men; unless someone better comes along (and I daily pray for that kind of leader) Trump is the best we have, because he at least is speaking for US, and not for the Cucks, the jews, or the fags.
Learn to read, Fr. John.
Interesting article here re Trump’s campaign: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-2016-campaign-growing-pains-121695.html
Headline = Donald Trump’s growing pains
Excerpt, re Trump’s organization:
“‘There’s a lot of turmoil going on in the campaign,’ said a person who has advised Trump in the past.
“The turmoil began in earnest earlier this month with the departure of Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone under disputed circumstances. Following Stone’s departure, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski announced he would travel around the country to interview operatives for a hiring spree that would expand Trump’s organization across the country. More than two weeks later, the campaign has not announced major new hires.”
Re Trump’s operation in New Hampshire:
“‘He has some sort of a ground game, not a great deal,’ said Grafton County Republican Party Chairman Bruce Perlo, adding that Trump himself has stuck to the more easily accessible southern half of the state. ‘We have not seen him come north at all.’
…
“‘It doesn’t seem like they’re putting together a ground game right now, and I don’t know what they’re getting from their events down here,’ said an adviser to a rival New Hampshire campaign, who cited Bush, Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina as candidates with robust presences. Of Trump’s operation, he said, ‘It’s more of a curiosity than an organization.'”
Re the Mobile rally:
“Trump pulled off the largest rally of any Republican candidate on Friday, even as his campaign lost the expectations game by predicting a bigger turnout than it could deliver.
…
“The campaign stumbled again in setting expectations for a megarally in Mobile, Alabama on Friday, predicting a turnout of 36,000 supporters. Media outlets estimated an attendance of about 15,000 to 20,000, and city officials put the number at 30,000.”
Re financing:
“A pro-Trump super PAC is preparing to make its first online ad buys even as news of its cooperation with the candidate raises questions about the financial independence he’s made a central rationale of his campaign.
…
“Trump’s supporters often cite his perceived ability to self-fund a campaign as core to his appeal. But while Trump claims to be worth $10 billion and has said he will spend ‘whatever it took’ to get elected, Forbes pegs his net worth at $4 billion, and he has only $300 million in liquid assets in a campaign cycle in which the total tab for a winning campaign is expected to exceed $1 billion.
…
“Trump himself has begun flirting with the possibility that he will take large contributions from moneyed interests. At the Alabama rally, he said a lobbyist recently offered him $5 million but that he turned the man down. ‘Maybe I’ll rethink it. Should I rethink it?’
“The crowd shouted, ‘no!’
“‘Can I take it, please?’ he pleaded.”
There are three new polls out which show Trump’s lead growing in South Carolina, New Hampshire, and nationwide.
John Bonaccorsi, Philadelphia
Perlo: “‘It doesn’t seem like they’re putting together a ground game right now, and I don’t know what they’re getting from their events down here,’ said an adviser to a rival New Hampshire campaign, who cited Bush, Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina as candidates with robust presences. Of Trump’s operation, he said, ‘It’s more of a curiosity than an organization.’”
So, according to the quotes in article, Trump’s campaign is in turmoil, disorganized and badly managed.
Meanwhile Bush, Fiorina and Rand Paul have rousing presences.
If and when Trump gets his act together what will his polling numbers be since they are already huge in New Hampshire.
Those with rousing presences don’t seem to be rousing anyone.
According to a just-released PPP poll, Donald Trump is dominating the early primary state of New Hampshire. Incredibly, Trump beats his second place GOP rival, Ohio Governor John Kasich, by more than 3 times the support, 35% to 11%.
Here’s the full rundown, which shows Walker, Rubio, and Bush in serious trouble.
Trump 35%
Kasich 11%
Fiorina 10%
Bush/Walker 7%
Carson 6%
Christie/Cruz/Rubio 4%