{"id":2106,"date":"2016-08-24T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2016-08-24T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:27:15","slug":"thoughts-on-donald-trump-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=2106","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Donald Trump, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting sick and tired of hearing about Donald Trump.  <\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t like him.  I&#8217;ve tried, believe me.  I&#8217;ve tried.  I&#8217;ve tried, many, many times over, to see what others see in him, but I just&#8230; can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t understand his appeal.<\/p>\n<p>I like Trump when he takes ideas from me, yes, but that&#8217;s just because he flatters me when he does so.  <\/p>\n<p>But as for <i>him<\/i>&#8230; I can&#8217;t stand him, and the more I learn about him, the less appealing he looks.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get over the fact that he&#8217;s so clearly not who he claims to be.  <\/p>\n<p>Trump is an oligarch; he&#8217;s a product of the Fed&#8217;s easy money experiments in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, and he defines that era.  He doesn&#8217;t belong in any conservative movement, and you can tell.<\/p>\n<p>Trump principally cares about himself, not the country, and he clearly doesn&#8217;t care about any transcendent ideals, left, right, or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick of the &#8220;alt-right&#8221; as well.  I don&#8217;t fit in with them and never will.  I am not a member of any &#8220;alternative&#8221; movement.  I am a conservative.  I take my cues from authors long dead, not from bloggers or twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the &#8220;alt-right&#8221; sees in Trump a savior is a good indication that I will never fit in with them, ever.  Not that I want to, anymore.  Now that I fully see what Trump is, I mean.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beyond sick of the GOP as a whole.  I want them all gone; all of them, Trump included.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of seeing the GOP make a mockery of the political ideals I believe in.  I&#8217;m tired of their candidates, like Trump, who purposely sabotage their own chances and support bases for the &#8220;greater good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I dislike being a part of any of this nonsense.  <\/p>\n<p>So, henceforth, I am reasserting myself and what I believe in.<\/p>\n<p>I am a dark conservative, forged in the Satanic underground of the mid 90&#8217;s and early 00&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p>I am a conservative.  I am not anyone&#8217;s &#8220;alternative&#8221;.  I do not give a fuck if Trump wins or loses.  I truly do not care, either way.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I would be glad if he loses.  Nothing would make me happier, because a loss for Trump would sink the GOP forever.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP is the party of Lincoln and always has been.  It&#8217;s the party of New Englander Wall Street types and their sycophants, like Trump, Nixon, Reagan and Romney.<\/p>\n<p>These people are not conservatives and never have been, despite the fantasies of their sheep.<\/p>\n<p>So, fuck &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting sick and tired of hearing about Donald Trump. Frankly, I don&#8217;t like him. I&#8217;ve tried, believe me. I&#8217;ve tried. I&#8217;ve tried, many, many times over, to see what others see in him, but I just&#8230; can&#8217;t. I just don&#8217;t understand his appeal. I like Trump when he takes ideas from me, yes, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}