Why Is Donald Trump Dominating?

This is why when I first saw Donald, I was excited:

If you are still confused about how Donald Trump is walking away with the Republican nomination for president, look no further than his swift, reflexive, fearless and unvarnished response to the terrorist attack in Paris.

Within hours of what amounted to 9/11 for our oldest ally, Mr. Trump took to Twitter to ridicule the president of the United States and eviscerate his foreign policies.

“President Obama said ‘ISIL continues to shrink’ in an interview just hours before the horrible attack in Paris. He is just so bad!” he wrote…

So much for the old Republican edict that politics end at the water’s edge, especially in a moment of dire crisis…

By the next day, Mr. Trump was just getting warmed up with all the things Republican politicians are not supposed to say in the wake of a tragedy like this.

“You can say what you want, but if they had guns — if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry — it would have been a much, much different situation,” Mr. Trump told a crowd of fans during a political rally in Texas one day after the massacre.

Ask any mainstream Republican political strategist and they will tell you this is political suicide.

One of the very first rules they teach in Republican political candidate school is you never, never, NEVER inveigh against gun control laws in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting like this.

You might offend somebody. Alienate women voters. Risk coming off as overly aggressive. Might invade some college students’ “safe space.”

But you know who never went to Republican political candidate school? Actual American voters. That’s who. And when Donald Trump breaks all the rules by ripping the president, questioning his religion and blaming gun control laws for a mass shooting, he is saying exactly what so many Americans were already thinking.

Donald is changing the tone of the debate by pushing the envelope, and he is doing it just as amygdalae are rising. The result is a populace learning that they can give vent to their amygdalae pressure by supporting a candidate who insults and attacks their enemies. Now everyone is flocking to him. As Donald dominates, it becomes acceptable for other candidates to take similar positions, and be confrontational themselves:

But direct to camera, Cruz didn’t hold back. He said Obama’s “personal insults and attacks” are “utterly unbefitting of a president,” adding:

“If you want to insult me, you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries, but I would encourage you, Mr. President, come back and insult me to my face.”

And Cruz didn’t stop there:

When Karl pressed Cruz on the fact that the bill would prevent Muslim migrants while permitting Christians to continue to enter the country, Cruz responded, “Can you say ‘radical Islamic terrorism’?”

That is the beginning of Cruz melding his debating skills with Trump’s use of ridicule to diminish the status of his opponents, rather than logically prove them wrong. That statement is the beginning of answering a reporter’s dumb question by asking the reporter right up front if he is an idiot, and then ignoring his assertions dismissively. Trump did this and rose in the polls. Now Cruz is doing this and he is rising in the polls. Even Carson is likening Muslim immigrants to rabid dogs, and not backing down when challenged. This not only appeals to the K-ified populace – it K-ify’s the populace further, so they will want more of it in the future.

Suddenly Jeb Bush and the other Cuckservative elites are left behind, looking like weak kneed pansies to a political base that increasingly demands real men willing to kick ass, regardless of the enemy’s feelings. Suddenly the elite’s modus operandi seems weak, ineffectual, and outdated. The whole game is changing, and it is Trump who began the changing of it.

I love Cruz’s positions – there is no doubt he is reliably and steadfastly conservative on every issue, but before Trump he would not have pushed this hard on the anti-immigrant in-grouping, or had the Alpha posture to totally tool the media when they challenged him.

Cruz wanted to convince people, but rabbits don’t convince. Worse, when you try to convince them in public, you confer a subconscious sense that the rabbit’s opinion actually matters to you, and thus the crowd subconsciously concludes that the rabbit’s opinion is at least as important as your’s – in your own mind. With the rabbits what you need is Donald’s, “I don’t give a fuck what you think….” posture, combined with personal ridicule, denigration of their stature, and appeals to the crowd to out-group them. It just works in debate, especially when you opponent’s position is so stupid as to be laughable to begin with. As Cruz now combines that Trump posture with his intellect and debate skills, he becomes the total candidate.

That Cruz and Trump have decided to tag-team is perhaps the best of all, because it combines one brilliant policy debater on one side, with a brilliant, entertaining, Alpha leader on the other. Each is drawing in a different crowd, and K-ifying them along the way. As they move forward, the entire populace is going to subconsciously swing toward them during the primary season, and whoever goes forward from there will easily sway that populace to support them in the General – especially if Hillary is the nominee. As it is now, it is impossible to imagine a worse slate on the Democrat’s side.

Add in terrorism, illegal immigrant crime, economic contractions, and the culmination of the debacle that is the Obama Presidency, and we will see the destruction of both liberalism and the Cuckservative elite’s hold on power.

Talk about Making America Great Again….