Ivanka Trump is Donald Trump’s ace in the hole.
All of the adult Trump children have spoken at this week’s Republican Nominating Convention, but Ivanka, the eldest daughter, had the singular task of introducing her father to the stage.
And her speech nailed it. Even if you did not agree with anything Donald Trump stands for, her speech, a measured, moderate plea for the votes of young, middle class and aspirational Americans was a total departure from the usual Trump rhetoric.
It was focused on character, nation building, compassion and gender equality.
Ivanka stood before the faithful (and some not-so-faithful) and presented the “other side” of her very famous and divisive father.
She talked about child care and pay equity, about millenial voters and picking candidates based on policies not parties (she has famously previously donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates).
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I didn't think he would win but now I'm thinking he might, and I think it will all come down to terrorism, if it escalates more people will vote for him and his Muslim immigration ban. Whether you agree with that or not is not the point, it will get him votes. Paradoxically the opposite is not as true, because even voters who think his Muslim ideas are completely wrong will (with a few exceptions) be more inclined to vote on things which directly affect them, eg health jobs etc. the Latino thing might affect him more as there is a lot of Latinos there.
I think Clinton also made a bit of a tactical error, she should have had bernie sanders as her running mate. A lot of bernies supporters hate her, if she had harnessed his appeal they would have voted for her, now a lot of those people may choose not to vote at all. They are unlikely to vote for trump but remember there is no compulsory voting there so they might just sit out the election.
Mind you since sanders lost (I was a fan) I haven't really been following their election so maybe she has given sanders a key role, I guess better google it!
I've seen a few people compare Trump to Hitler but as repugnant as Hitler was I think Hitler actually believed in his twisted ideas, so in that way he was "idealist" but of course a sick one. Whilst I think Trump's just a narcissist, I think he would wage war on penguins if he thought that would get him the vote.
There is another disturbing thing about Hitler, he actually did revitalise a severely debilitated German economy, of course how he did was to kill the Jews and take their money, then he gave the unemployed their jobs. I want to make it abundantly clear that he was a twisted piece of crap for doing so, but my point is that don't make the mistake that evil necessarily leads to a collapsed economy. Hitlers big mistake was to decide he would take over the world. Considering the German people voted him in, fully knowing that he made speeches like death to Jews, indicates that a lot of German people would possibly still be happily living in the third reich for years if Hitler hadn't brought their country to its knees due to the war. I once again want to make it very clear that I think hitler and the nazis were disgusting, evil animals, but I'm just pointing out an interesting observation that if Hitler had been smart enough to do what most dictators do, they commit heinous acts on a minority but spare everyone else and choose their wars carefully the third reich may have lasted quite some time.
Mind you trump will no doubt make so many other countries mad that they will probably have no choice but to war with him whether he declares the war or not. Of course in the short term war can be good for the economy, it produces plenty of jobs, but in the long term if you lose it's complete anhilation. I wouldn't be silly enough to take on the Chinese and the whole of the Middle East but it looks like trump could end up doing that.