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The hidden details of the October surprise about Trump’s “sexual assaults”

Larry Kummer, Editor

Summary: As expected, an October surprise has arrived to tilt the vote. Key developments in the election (Circus 2016) are lost in the media frenzy about this new Trump soundbite, things which reveal much about America today — and our future.  Let’s drag them into the light.

Contents

  1. Clinton’s real platform.
  2. About the morality of US presidents.
  3. Our elites find an effective smear on Trump.
  4. Our elites: “No need for Americans to vote!”
  5. Implications of this October surprise.
  6. The Anything But Issues election.
  7. For More Information.

(1)  Clinton’s real platform

Clinton has wisely decided to run against Trump on the Anything But Issues platform instead of her program of supporting Wall Street and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (does anyone seriously believe her public dithering about it?) plus aggressive foreign wars and domestic social engineering. This is folly. Avoiding these issues — and Trump’s more popular ones (described here, here, and here) — is ineffective against Trump — as the polls show – and gives her no mandate if she wins.

(2)  About the morality of US presidents

Many high US officials have been adulterers and even serial adulterers. More spectacular was the soap opera-like White House of President Franklin Roosevelt, the cousin he was having an affair with, the cousin he was married to, and her girlfriend and Kennedy’s festivities with women (including naked pool parties).

The cherry on the top of this history is Bill Clinton’s affair with an intern. Feminists would have crucified a GOP president for that, doubly so for his team’s attacks on Monika Lewinsky — smearing her as “a ‘stalker’ and that the President was ‘the victim’ of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman“. They would have done so a second time after revelation of his perjury in defense of his sexual misconduct (i.e., employer to young woman). Only her blue dress brought the truth out. Plus the accusations of sexual assault and even rape (Juanita Broddrick). Believe the victim when you are told to do so!

Trump’s serial adultery would add to this American tradition. The crudity of Trump’s conversation rivals that of LBJ (who famously involved his dick, “Jumbo” in the lives of his staff and visitors). Much worse, imo, is Trump compulsive lying. His own lawyers meet with him in pairs because Trump lies so much (caught by Southpaw from a 7 April 1993 deposition of Patrick T. McGahn (see p. 58, numbered page 77).

I worry about the Republic when its people like leaders such as Clinton and Trump (Trump is, of course, far worse in every sense).

“CNN’s Erin Burnett recounts an incident told to her by a friend she has known for years who alleges Donald Trump allegedly tried to kiss her.” — From CNN. A capital crime!

(3)  Our elites find an effective smear on Trump

Trump admitted “kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation” — which the American hysteria machine became “sexual assault” (the same process that produced the decade-long hysteria about satanic ritual abuse and child abduction. As usual for these things, without actual complaints of sexual assault (as there were against Bill Clinton).

As a useful context, manufacturing smears about Trump has been our elites’ major mode of attack on Trump. Try, try, again is their motto.

(4) Our elites have decided. No need for Americans to vote on Trump!

Elites have chosen. Clinton has unified them behind her banner to a degree seldom seen in US history. Our elites never wanted Trump. For details see Campaign 2016: America passes into new hands and 2016: a historic unification election for America!
Our elites see no need for people to vote on Trump. They boldly seek to overturn the primaries and ignore the 40%+ of Americans that show support for Trump (a majority says they are likely to vote for him). Most of the GOP elites that supported him did so reluctantly, and many of these use this opportunity to bolt. Oddly, most say that Trump should quit because he cannot win (as I predicted in March). It’s a creative tactic: if their candidate is losing, the GOP can make a last minute switch to another!

There are many more of these. Their numbers are growing, as a snowball grows rolling down hill. The Trump candidacy is finished.

(5)  Results of this October surprise

“With Trump as president, Republican Party Platform will be dust. RNC’s double-cross means end of compromises. A suicide move for the RNC.”
— Tweet by Maximilian Forte (Prof anthropology, Concordia U).

Suppressed after the New Deal, the resurgence of populism took the Republican leadership by surprise. Some key elements of populism — opposition to our foreign wars, Wall Street, globalization, and open borders — are anathemas to the GOP’s core constituencies. Trump’s personal inadequacies — and they are legion — allowed them to minimize discussion of these issues. But the conflict is unresolvable.

We will soon see how the public reacts to the latest revelations and the accompanying propaganda campaign (this might be interesting). No matter if the lost support is large or small, the defection of so many Republican leaders dooms his campaign.

Will the populist insurgency die with Trump’s candidacy? Its easy death would indicate that we are sheep, easily managed by our elites, forcing us to consider if we are better off ruled rather than governing ourselves.

US politics will become interesting If populism finds a new, and hopefully better, leader than Trump. The reaction of GOP elites to populism suggests that they cannot accommodate it under their big tent. It might split the party. as in 1854 the Republicans split from the Whigs over slavery. Sanders’ progressive insurgency would be a damp squib by comparison. If so, history will repeat itself — but not as comedy. That would take America into the unknown.

Come back tomorrow for more about this.

(6)  Other chapters in this series about the Anything But Issues election

  1. Why they lose: the Left tells us that Trump is like Hitler.
  2. The Left calls Trump an ‘authoritarian’, a false & futile attempt to suppress populism.
  3. The Left calls Trump a fascist instead of focusing on the issues. It’s why they lose.
  4. Does Donald Trump have a perverted attraction to Ivanka? Details of a smear.
  5. Is Trump a tool of Putin? See the story & the debunking.
  6. Did Trump have a perverted attraction to 12-year old Paris Hilton? Details of a smear.
  7. The hidden details of the October surprise about Trump’s “sexual assaults”.
  8. The moral panic about Trump’s assault on Arianne Zucker.
  9. Consequences for the Republican Party.

(7)  For More Information

If you liked this post, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See all posts about Campaign 2016, and especially these…

  1. Why the Outer Party hates Trump and will waste this opportunity for reform.
  2. Why the Left is missing the rising populist movement.
  3. Trump wins because he says some sensible things which journalists can’t conceal — You must not see populism!
  4. What the press won’t tell you about Trump and populism — See Walter Russell Mead’s famous essay about Jackson.
  5. The Right struggles to understand Trump and populism.
  6. Liberals look at Trump and populism, but see only their prejudices.
  7. Racism is the dark side of populism. Will it divide and defeat us?
  8. Populism arises amidst workers abandoned by the Left, seeking allies.
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