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Does Mitt Romney deserve praise for criticizing Donald Trump?
The spineless jelly fish rears its ugly head again… and we all salute as we always do
The New Yorker published a cartoon which featured a group of sheep looking at a sign for a political candidate who happened to be a wolf. The sign said “I am going to eat you.” One sheep said to the other “I like him. He tells it like it is.”
Obviously, this cartoon is a metaphor for Trump. Saturday Night Live produced a skit featuring Alec Baldwin telling working class voters how he, as Trump, was going to screw them over. Upon hearing this, the supposed working class voters thanked him.
Trump ran as a populist focused on helping the working class. Instead, he has turned into an oligarchist, completely focused on his own enrichment, and caring little for the plight of working people.
Much political commentary since the election has focused on why these working class people voted for and continue to support someone who is so clearly uninterested in their needs. The New Yorker cartoon captured at least part of the reason: people are looking for authenticity in their politicians.
This is the same reason young people were so attracted to a 74-year old Brooklyn socialist representing Vermont in the U.S…
