Trump, Death Wish, the Wollman Rink, the Damn Fence, and the White House

http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2015/07/06/trump-death-wish-the-wollman-rink-and-the-white-house/?singlepage=true

Yeah, the last four letters of American spell “I can”! It’s Trumps good ole’ American ‘can do’ attitude that is making him popular with the public right now. It shines a light on the fact that neither political party is governing according to the will of the majority anymore. They both have their hidden agenda’s. The Democrats want to transform the country into  place no one will want to live in and the Republicans are too cowardly to stop them. Just build the damn fence already!

At that moment, Donald Trump was probably the most popular man in the five boroughs, because he had done something that everybody knew was possible except the city’s entrenched, corrupt Democratic Party establishment, for whom the millions of dollars wasted was not a bug but a feature of personal enrichment. Recall as well that this was the era of the defeatist Upper West Side whine from behind multiple locked doors: nothing can be done! Crime is unstoppable! Kids are going to have sex no matter what you tell them! Who are we to judge?! Call the cops! (Eventually, the voters did call the cops, in the form of Rudy Giuliani and Bill Bratton.) Trump showed that, at least in the case of the Wollman Rink, something very much could be done.
This is what is behind the Trump boomlet. It’s not so much his particular stance on, say, immigration, it’s that he has the confidence to say to the voters: this can be done. ”You can always get the job done through sheer force of will,” would be a hell of a campaign slogan. Forget the six-point programs and position paper beloved of the krack kadres of GOP kampaign konsultants, and the carefully parsed answers to trick questions from the media. Just build the damn fence.