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How Trump Is Like David Duke

For one, he's smarter than the media who believe he's a bad joke
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A Louisiana reader who is old enough to remember David Duke’s political career in our state writes:

So: Trump is like David Duke.

Legal disclaimer: not saying Trump’s a racist, or anything of the sort.

Disclaimer #2: remember that despite being a known former grand wizard, when Duke was in mainstream politics, he had disavowed his Klan past. He was parroting standard Republican positions like lower taxes, fewer regulations, tougher on crime. (I had a black friend who was planning to vote for him. We got into an argument at a football game about it.)

All of the mainstream pundits and many voters thought Duke would screw up and flame out, that he would start dropping N-bombs in debates or lose his temper or get caught burning a cross. What they did not understand is that Duke was smarter than everyone in the race, except maybe for Edwin Edwards, and smarter than the reporters. He was a political genius, albeit an evil one. So Duke handed the other candidates their asses in debates, talking and thinking circles around them. Every answer came back to a talking point. He went on Crossfire and made Michael Kinsley into an absolute tongue-tied caricature of a frustrated liberal losing an argument. Everyone underestimated Duke’s intelligence and his ability to stay on message, and enough voters were willing to convince themselves that Duke really had changed his ways. Of course, he had not, and he quickly went back to the white supremacy gig after he lost the bid for the governor’s office – and his newfound fame increased his earning power.

Trump is the same type of phenomenon. He’s not a moron, but the media thinks he is. So they keep waiting for him to say something stupid, and he either doesn’t, or he does and plants his flag in it. He’s a quick thinker with enough charisma to seduce a smallish percentage of people, but in a race with 10+ candidates, that’s enough. That’s how Duke made the gubernatorial runoff, remember – he got around 30% of the votes in a primary with about 10 candidates.

And if/when Trump loses, he shamelessly cashes in on his fame even more so than he already has.

So says a Bayou State sage. I pass it on to you for consideration.

For the record, Duke praised Trump the other day as the best Republican going, but said in the end, Trump is just too dadgum Zionist for decent people such as himself to support.

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