2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMeet Paul Manafort, Trump's -- and world dictators' -- global political technologist.
Paul Manafort gives a whole different meaning to the phrase, "The Real Deal."
While we on DU navigate our way toward our party's nominee, this article reminds me that it behooves us to move our sights ahead -- or at least keep in our awareness -- toward how Trump is really going to become electable in the General Election sense of the word.
This guy has caused the GOP elites to fold. This guy runs/consults Trump's campaign.
So. Whoever is Trump's Democratic opponent will be up against a machine that keeps dictators in power worldwide.
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Hillary's David Brock runs fraternity boy politics compared to the political dictator/businessman world that Paul Manafort runs.
Manafort may have been around awhile, and while Salon can go for edgy reporting these days, there's something here. He appears as oligarchic ammunition that even a clever Priebus will defer to. Bill Clinton's talent bench could be tested and bested in facing him.
Polls still show that, to beat Trump, it may take the socialist Jew who draws everyone from the pope to disengaged youth to birds. Now, I'm hoping these polls will hold in the general.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_manafort_isn_t_a_gop_retread_he_s_made_a_career_of_reinventing_tyrants.html
Here, Manafort is profiled on Trump's left, our right.
pampango
(24,692 posts)as well as the eyes of Mr. Manafort.
The support for dictators (terrorists all of them) - predictable coming from the right with its "American First" mentality, more surprising from the left - is disgusting. Often we can't and shouldn't do anything about their existence but praise or support should never be offered.
ancianita
(35,916 posts)contemplate.
In the ocean of shallow media waves, this seems to show a real tide coming in. Trump will not be easy because of this man.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I tried to find a clip, but was unsuccessful.
That is an excellent article in your link, BTW!