How Donald Trump Could Win the USA Election
by Matt Lewis – Independent UK
Donald Trump is neither a statesman nor an everyman. He’s a political schizophrenic.
Anyone who doubts this need only look back to Wednesday (August 31, 2016) as a microcosm of his mercurial campaign.
It was a tale of two Trumps: one, the aspiring statesman; and the other, the demagogic hero of the American workingman.
It started in Mexico, where Trump met with President Enrique Peña Nieto. He shrewdly positioned himself next to a
foreign head of state, as if the president’s power and status were contagious. If the goal was to make him look statesmanlike and diplomatic, it worked.
But it wasn’t just the optics. Rhetorically, Trump struck a conciliatory tone while talking about “shared goals.”
For a moment, at least, it appeared that he might have outflanked Hillary Clinton. …….. Then he crossed the border into Arizona. Continue reading