2016 May 26^th

Donald Trump arouses huge support for himself, and he generates equally furious opposition. We saw that in New Mexico where rioters were tear-gassed and pepper sprayed by police when they protested a Trump rally. Then on to a safer conservative spot in Southern California where the police presence was strong enough to tamp down any rioting before it started.

Trump is not able to let criticism, real or implied, be ignored. He must respond and he glories in his willingness to “fight back.” Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has shown her contempt for Trump who now refers to the Senator as “Pocahontas” because she apparently has some Native American genes. He also claims that Senator Warren has done nothing in the Senate. Well, she has obviously irritated Trump considerably and although that doesn’t take much, she has done it with considerable panache; bless her heart.

Even the Republican Governor of New Mexico, the chairperson of the Republican Governors group got her comeuppance because she was too busy to attend Trump’s rally and welcome him to New Mexico. He specifically referred to her as ineffective and offered to run as New Mexico’s Governor to straighten out things for the state.

The fact that no one is immune from Trump’s thin-skinned anger is a great boon to Hillary (Crooked Hillary) Clinton.  Nothing Trump does will lose him any current fans, but the fans he has now cannot win him the national election. He brags about winning the primaries in various states by more than 50 percent of the vote, but these were over 50 percent of just those Republicans who turned out to vote and the Republicans who decided to vote in these primaries were often on the order of 40 percent of registered Republicans. So Trump appeals to about 20 percent of registered Republicans, and there are fewer registered Republicans than registered Democrats in this country.

Where will he get enough support to be competitive against Clinton? His appeal to Latinos, African Americans and women is dismally low. And he is making no  attempt to turn that around; witness his trashing of the Latina Governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez. There he manages to trash a woman and a minority simultaneously. Great work Donald, keep it up!

Now it is official Trump has held a press conference declaring that he has officially won the Republican primary and is the party’s nominee for President. At his press conference, he declared that he will revive the coal industry; that the coal miners just love their work (no mention of black lung) and he will reduce many of those pesky regulations that increase the price of coal (and keep coal miners from getting killed). Hey, we know that Trump will do anything to make a buck!