Roger Stanyard wrote:Does anyone here get the feeling that the American political right is just about to walk over the edge of a cliff?
Yeah, Trump is probably a symptom of the same detachment of we see here of voters from the established political class, which seems to earth itself through non-establishment candidates, almost regardless of their suitability. Here we got Corbin, Farage and the SNP, France votes National Front, but America has to go one better...
Though Trump clearly speaks to a certain segment of the right-wing US electorate, which we here are passingly familiar with. Fortunately I suspect Trumps apparent strategy over making controversial statements to get himself noticed on social media and then subsequent media coverage (he's spent mere millions of dollars versus say Jed who's dumped over 20 million dollars in to TV advertising) will eventually bite him in the ass once he comes up against the democratic presidential campaign!
The one thing I find really strange is that the support Trump seems to be picking up on the religious right. His anti-muslim rhetoric and general social conservatism no doubt speaks to certain segments of that constituency, but I don't see him as being obviously their man.