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Not surprisingly, the topic was one that dominated the discussion all night: What candidate is best qualified to savage civil liberties at home while bombing the rest of the planet into oblivion?
Judging by his ability to disembowel Bush in front of a hand-picked audience of red-meat party loyalists, Trump appears to be the hands-down winner.
It should be pretty clear by now, that "ratings machine" Trump is more than a passing phenomenon that will suddenly vanish when voters see that he doesn't really have a party, a platform or a good grasp of the issues.
That's not going to happen. The imperious real estate tycoon is an explosive and charismatic character whose shoot-from-the-hip candor and rapier-like sarcasm have transformed him into a right wing Huey Long. That's right, Trump has become a populist icon who thrives on biased attacks of a media that is justifiably reviled by nearly everyone.
Just imagine a mercurial megalomaniac like Trump in the oval office just inches away from the Big Red Switch that ignites the Pentagon's prodigious arsenal of nuclear weapons.
It's worth thinking about at least...
Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.
Comment: Trump's got a history of being a conman whose obsession with his own image is rivaled only by his contempt for everyone else. After all, when he's not bragging about himself or insulting someone's looks, he's perfectly comfortable insulting the handicapped. So what does it say about the future of America that so many Americans are held spellbound by his lunacy? As Laura Knight-Jadczyk writes in her article Knowledge and Freedom: Antidote to the rising fascism: