Defining Trump

As the movie "Spotlight" illustrated, true change can only come from an outsider.

As I'm celebrating Trump's recent victory, this sentence that I wrote in my last piece is reverberating in my mind.
In so many ways, he is such a novice.... which makes him so incredible. He so obviously wasn't prepared for his debates against Hillary. He looked like... well, an unpolished businessman who was squaring off against a political cyborg that had its programming finely tuned for those debates for decades. But many of us regarded his style as refreshing.
Even when I disagree with him 100%-- i.e.: his love for waterboarding-- he states his opinion in an upfront way: "We are gonna go well beyond waterboarding on those people."
I don't remember George W. Chimp even using the phrase "waterboarding." Many of you probably remember that he almost always said, "enhanced interrogation tactics."
Therein lies the reason why the establishment failed in this national election: it's full of shit, and the people know it.
I'm also hearing many media morons-- the same geniuses who claimed that his loss in the election was inevitable-- say that TRUMP HAS NO AGENDA; HE HAS NO PLATFORM; HE IS IDEALISTICALLY BANKRUPT.
Um.... No. There is a reason why people fear him. It's because he has laid out his agenda so clearly: the repeal of "Obama Care," building a wall on the country's southern border, a registration program for muslims, implementing term limits for senators and representatives (D.C. HATES this), rebuilding the nation's infrastructure (media morons are saying, "IMPOSSIBLE!" because they have forgotten Roosevelt's "New Deal" legislation), repeal of the "death tax," a tax cut for the middle class.... But no, they're right. He has no real agenda.
You might have noticed that all of those items are domestic. His foreign policy is rather vague because it's not a priority for him at this time. The media are panicking because when they're dealing with a Republican presidential nominee or president they are accustomed to speaking with a neocon idiot who has a comprehensive, imperialistic plan for global domination.
Trump isn't a neocon. He is a protectionist who believes rightfully that we need to focus on our own country instead of installing the next tyrant in (insert Mideastern country here) who we can turn on in a few years. It recently occurred to me that he is basically Pat Buchanan, plus a boatload of charisma and minus the insane evangelical bullshit. The RNC always privately hated Buchanan, so the analogy is more than appropriate.
As I'm listening to the radio at this moment I'm hearing "Republican" hosts-- neocons, of course-- damn Americans' stupidity. They're the same hacks who predicted a massive Trump defeat. They will never just shut the hell up, just as they will never understand "middle America." As I stated in my last article, the two parties are in need of an overhaul.
During this long inauguration process and election there was a populist zeitgeist that Trump and Bernie Sanders tapped. Sanders, as Trump stated, "never had a chance." The DNC was rigged against him. The RNC allowed the Trump phenomenon to occur in spite of itself because it wasn't nearly as corrupt. Obviously his movement was not a tempest in a teapot as the media morons told us-- it expanded across America during the general election. Sanders was the only Democratic pol who stood a chance against him. Hillary was mince meat.
Now the neocons are mad as hell even in the light of victory. Just go away. Please. He understood everything. You didn't.
And it leads me to my final point about Trump: he is a very smart man who knows how to exploit his circumstances. Go ahead-- claim that he is mercurial or has authoritarian tendencies or is puerile. But never say that he is stupid. He knows how to get things done in an efficient manner. He made several billions from one million. He made a national movement from a small, ragtag collection of disgruntled Americans.
Something that he often said on the campaign trail (very early, by the way) seemed so simple yet so sweet and perfect to me: "We're not losers. We're winners."
He often added that John McCain was a loser, and Mitt Romney was a loser. But he was going to win, and keep the nation winning because he was a winner, and just by its association with him, the nation was a winner.
Again, it seems so simple, yet no one has proven him wrong yet.