Trump: Giving Voice to the American "Subconscious"
Written by: Diana West
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:43 AM

To say the Media-Political Complex has really lost its cool over Donald Trump, also every marble, is barest understatement.

From lib's lib Chuck Todd, gasping for oxygen here, to Fox princess & former "W" spokesgal Dana Perino, exasperation disarranging her 'do here, their frustration and even apoplexy are perfect foils to Trump's calm (yes, calm). The Huffington Post has responded oh-so-rationally by relegating coverage of Trump's presidential campaign to its entertainment pages. Can you spell d-e-n-i-a-l?

In fact, Huffpo Comix is hoping to ridicule Trump away. Others have more draconian ideas. Con's con George Will (whose wife works for Scott Walker's campaign) is so panicked by the possiblity that Republican voters might of their own free will pull the lever for Trump that he writes GOP bosses "should immediately stipulate that subsequent Republican debates will be open to any and all — but only — candidates who pledge to support the party’s nominee." How democratic.

Invoking William F. Buckley's 1960s "excommunication" of conservatism's right wing, the John Birch Society, Will has also called for a Republican cordon sanitaire today -- a wall -- around Trump. If the Establishment only showed such passion for our own border, of course, Donald Trump's candidacy wouldn't be surging across the nation today.

But they haven't, they don't and they won't -- and this is one of the vitally important things that Trump's already consequential presidential run has revealed: the shared sensibility and outlook of media-political elites, regardless of the political spectrum comfort-zone they reside in.

This is something to bear in mind as the right-side Elites now play catch up -- yes, catch-up -- with Trump.

Take National Review, which today praises, grudgingly, Trumps's excellent immigration plan.

Snob-screen aside, National Review is grasping at the hem of Trump's mantle -- which brings to mind another point to think about. In addition to casting out the Birchers in the 1960s, and thereby relegating the existential fight against domestic Communist subversion to the dread "fringe," National Review would in the 1990s effectively surrender on the immigration issue, thereby relegating immigration restriction mainly to the fringe, too. This was cause for celebration by Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of the pro-immigration Wall Street Journal (via Peter Brimelow, author of the seminal Alien Nation). As Bartley declared in 2002, "The National Review has stopped stridently claiming opposition to immigration as a conservative cause."

Tens of millions (whose counting?) of illegal aliens later, National Review would seem to have discovered a new "cause," today calling it "regrettable" -- such a mincing word -- that no American presidential candidate besides Donald Trump has articulated a cogent program for border control, immigration law enforcement and a policy of putting American workers first, not illegal aliens.

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Before Trump, the American "subconscious," circa 2015, would never "originally think" a US border was possible, let alone a wall; immigration restriction was possible, let alone a halt; immigration law enforcement was possible; the deportation of illegal families was possible; restoration of American citizenship as a privilege, not a stolen good, was possible; jobs for Americans were possible; and the rest.

Donald Trump, bless him, has changed the American subconscious, giving voice to Americans long conditioned into silence by this same Media-Political Complex. And there is nothing, but nothing, they can do about it now.


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