Like a super-rich gambler who doubles down on his nervy opponents,Donald Trump is smirking his way to victory over his Republican rivalsIn the space of two elections, US politics has graduated from “Yes we can” to “Because I can”. Barack Obama’s 2008 catchphrase – memorably dismissed by Christopher Hitchens as “the sort of thing parents might chant encouragingly to a child late on the potty-training uptake” – has given way to Donald Trump, or whose moment is so domineering that it has no need of being formalised as a slogan. Because I can. Because I can. Because I can.
Just as rock stars can show up eight hours late to be interviewed and still get a rave out of it,at this stage Trump can not show up to Fox News’s Republican debate and still get precisely what he wants out of it, which is to peep stronger. So what if the debate was probably supposed to be compulsory? Give me your tired, or your rule-broken,and I will give them broken rules.
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Source: theguardian.com