6 Reasons Donald Trump Of The Past Would Hate Donald Trump Today

His disregard for ideological integrity is nearly as impressive as the endangered species that sits atop his head.

Donald Trump has stolen the headlines in the 2016 race for the White House. He€™s been outspoken against immigration, naïve on his measures to combat ISIS, and even taken a (tiny) shot at sacred Republican institutions like Fox News. Despite all his blustering, it seems that his tactless offensive is working. Trump recently moved to the top of a nationwide Republican primary poll. But, unbeknownst to the real estate billionaire, the majority of analysts still see him as a farce and he is the least-liked candidate out there. In many ways, Donald Trump has become the Vuvuzela of Republican candidates: Frustratingly hard to ignore, impossible to comprehend, and, hopefully, an annoyance for only a couple of months. Despite his eccentric opinions and delusional rhetoric, no one can deny Trump has this je ne sais coif about him. You simply cannot turn away. His opening campaign speech read like a 3-year old€™s Mad Libs submission and subsequent interviews have been as strange as they have been loud. This means little to Trump, as he will continue to stay relevant thanks to the media€™s obsession with him and his overzealous ways. Trump is what you€™d call a bumblebee candidate: A new contender that enters the Presidential Race, €˜stings€™ the party with his ideas and then dies off (hopefully). This is not the first time we€™ve seen a bumblebee candidate; there were plenty of examples in 2012. Newt Gingirch and his moon colony failed to propel support into the stratosphere; Herman Cain€™s idea for a flat tax of 9-9-9 never added up; and Rick Perry couldn€™t remember which 3 government agencies were the bane of America€™s existence. (Maybe you keep the Department of Education, Rick?) For better or worse, bumblebee candidates have to be acknowledged, challenged and dealt with. The real candidates€”Jeb Bush, Rand Paul€”will have to wait until the others run out of money or common sense to voice their opinions. Financial support and palatable ideas often go hand-in-hand, but with the Citizens United ruling, it€™s not a guarantee. Enter Trump and the multitude of questions surrounding his campaign. Is he a legitimate contender or a candidate placating a small, angry part of the GOP? Are his beliefs conservative enough to win the Republican nomination but lose the general election? And most importantly, where does he really stand on the issues? As hard as it is to imagine, Trump was not always the right-wing reactionary he is so-often caricaturized in the media as. His consistency on hot-button issues has changed (evolved?) over his lifetime. Remarkably, the 69-year old actually held a number of progressive political and social positions in the past. Which shows that Trump appears to be one of the worst types of attention-starved politicians: the morally malleable kind. Trump is fuelled not by principles or convictions, but by people and their cacophony of noise, regardless of whether that noise is constructive or simply inaudible anger sprayed from a common horn.
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