Hillary's Secret Weapon ~ Donald Trump

Watching the recent Republican Presidential auditions was like watching Kabuki theater where a toad like Jeb Bush attempted to rationalize the criminal actions of his older brother while at the same time riding on his badly frayed coat tails. Meanwhile an out of control Donald the brash Trump seized his moment in prime time with the ultimate narcissistic and vacuous TV selfie thereby revealing Hillary’s secret weapon ~ the total discrediting and irrelevance of the Republican Party via Donald Trump: Allen L Roland, PhD

The obvious problem for Hillary lies in Trump’s narcissism which, when fully released and uncontrolled, will eventually destroy the enabler herself. Witness Maureen Dowd’s recent comment regarding the debates in the New York Times ~  ”Consider how Trump yanked back the curtain Thursday night explaining how financial quid pro quos warp the political system. “Well, I’ll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding,” he said. “You know why? She had no choice because I gave. I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good. I didn’t know her money would be used on private jets going all over the world.”

But the most important audience for the Republican debates is not TV viewers ~ The party’s leaders also carry tremendous sway ~  since the infamous election of 1980, the single best predictor of a party’s nominee is the number of endorsements from party elites in the months before primaries begin. As Lynn Vavreck points out in the New York Times ~ ” in 2012, it became clear that when candidates’ share of media coverage grew and the tone of their coverage became increasingly positive, a direct bounce in poll numbers resulted.”

So what we really have here is a National Audition before the financial elite, including AIPAC ~ where the decision is really made before the primaries on who to back and which one to concentrate media coverage as well as the big bucks.

For the top candidates, it’s an audition for party elites, moneyed supporters and lastly, the voters. The goal in reality isn’t to wow the crowd or create a surge in the polls, but instead to reassure ~ to confirm their ability to win, to handle the presidency and above all to maintain the status Quo of the Oligarchy.