SULTAN KNISH
by Daniel Greenfield
July 16, 2015

Trump isn’t fighting this as a battle of ideas or policies. He’s talking about what people feel.

As the long slow race to beat Hillary drags on, there will be a thousand conservative stories and blog posts demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump is a hypocrite, that he supported illegal immigrants, Hillary, abortion and higher taxes. And few of them will leave our small bubble. Trump may indeed be a liar and a hypocrite, though he wouldn’t be the only candidate in the race who has moved to the right or abandoned previous positions, but he understands what the others don’t. The Republican field is a mass of highly qualified and talented people with poor media skills and worse communication skills. Some consciously choose to play it safe. Others seem to have no clue how to win a debate or a drive a message home. Donald Trump has been a joke of one kind or another for most of his adult life, and until now he’s been an incredibly successful joke. READ MORE