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While very little of interest was found in the news today, Pat Buchanan @wnd.com via Drudge wrote one of the best explanations for Trump’s popularity across the nation.

Pat began: “Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.”

Next, Pat described the instant backlash arising throughout the left and the mainstream media, all of them outraged and incensed that a presidential candidate could be so selfish and un-American, and certainly not acceptable in any way as POTUS.  

And then Pat asked: “What explains the hysteria of the establishment?

“In a word, fear.” 

“The establishment is horrified at the Donald’s defiance because, deep within its soul, it fears that the people for whom Trump speaks no longer accept its political legitimacy or moral authority. 

“It may rule and run the country, and may rig the system through mass immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is never again able to elect one of its own. But that establishment, disconnected from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even detested.” 

Pat followed that by drawing a comparison to the nation’s origin, which began when its founders grouped together to break away from those oppressing their freedoms and claiming their treasure.     

Regarding the present, Pat wrote: “Having fixed the future, the establishment finds half of the country looking upon it with the same sullen contempt that our Founding Fathers came to look upon the overlords Parliament sent to rule them.” 

Therefore: “By suggesting he might not accept the results of a “rigged election” Trump is committing an unpardonable sin. But this new cult, this devotion to a new holy trinity of diversity, democracy and equality, is of recent vintage and has shallow roots. 

“For none of the three – diversity, equality, democracy – is to be found in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers or the Pledge of Allegiance. In the pledge, we are a republic. 

“When Ben Franklin, emerging from the Philadelphia convention, was asked by a woman what kind of government they had created, he answered, “A republic, if you can keep it.” 

“Among many in the silent majority, Clintonian democracy is not an improvement upon the old republic; it is the corruption of it. 

“Consider: Six months ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton bundler, announced that by executive action he would convert 200,000 convicted felons into eligible voters by November. 

“If that is democracy, many will say, to hell with it. 

“And if felons decide the electoral votes of Virginia, and Virginia decides who is our next U.S. president, are we obligated to honor that election?”

Pat brings it all together by concluding with: “But now that it is the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal democracy to save the America they love, elitist enthusiasm for “revolution” seems more constrained. 

“What goes around comes around.” 

While there’s significant truth to Pat’s rationale regarding Trump’s appeal to such a large segment of the population, it’s also extremely helpful that he has such a commanding grasp of the nation’s history. Because, for many, they may feel thoroughly disgusted with the current state of affairs, but don’t really know why or that they themselves can revolt just as the Founding Fathers did so long ago. 

But, fortunately, all they really have to do at present is go out on November 8th and vote for Trump. It’s a pretty safe bet that the Founders would have.     

As far as what those voters have at stake, an example came from Steve Wynn on Fox’s Hannity Thursday night.

Ian Schwartz @realclearpolitics.com, quotes Mr. Wynn as follows: “We take in $3.1 trillion and we spend $3.7 trillion. And that $600 billion deficit is at the rate of $50 billion a month. Our government is printing money and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger and confusion. I was disappointed we didn't get in a real substantive conversation about that last night." 

He also addressed health care and said “the more than 10,000 people he employees "paid more money but did not get more coverage" under Obamacare. 

“All of my employees [have] increased health care costs in spite of the fact the company picked up most of the increases but yet they have the same policy that they had before." 

“We've been health care providers for over 45 years. And when your prices go up and your product doesn't get any better you sort of wonder whether you got a new deal or not."

Which fits right in to the underlying voter displeasure that Pat Buchanan was highlighting in his perspective of what Trump's offering voters. 

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill’s Clinton’s wife, this one illustrating major disaffection among her own people and allies. 

According to Edmund Kozak @lifezette.com: “In an email to Hillary Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta from February 2016, released Friday by WikiLeaks, now-acting chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile gave a frank and honest assessment of the Obama economy — and it wasn’t good.

“I think people are more in despair about how things are — yes new jobs but they are low wage jobs,” she admits. “HOUSING is a huge issue. Most people pay half of what they make to rent,” she continued.” 

So, little by little, drop by drop, the continuing disclosure of leaked emails exposes problems at all levels, primarily for the same underlying reasons. 

And that’s because while presenting one face to the public, the quite ugly truths consistently remain hidden. However, in virtually all cases, duplicity is apparently present. Which means that even the most ardent supporters have no way to  determine if any promises or pledges have any value whatsoever. 

Thus, if truth means anything at all to the Democrat party, the ongoing question needs asking again: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, and Starbucks chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys are reading this?    

That's it for today folks.     

   

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