An Offer (Yes) We Can Refuse

The cable news bobbleheads are trying to find a way to describe Donald Trump's speech in Las Vegas, in which his foreign policy is apparently to tell China to fuck off and to take Iraq and Libya's oil.  Bob Shrum likened it to Howard Beale in Network.  Exactly wrong.  Beale was the voice of the powerless.  Trump thinks he's powerful.  He's talking like a movie version of a Mob boss.  That he's talking that way in Vegas is exactly the point.

And why shouldn't the President be a Mob boss?  Don't we got the biggest guns?

Trump like all demagogic GOPers appeals to the truly fearful among the powerless, and the always resentful among the powerful who are never satisfied with what they've got until they've got it all.  What they have in common is an infantile heart.  They don't have the maturity to deal with complexity.  A lot of them don't care about anyone other than themselves, although this is more likely to be the infantile attitude of the powerful than the powerless pitiful tea party grunts.