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riversedge

(70,206 posts)
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 01:46 PM Jul 2016

Donald Trump is at the wheel, and road looks rocky

I note his goofy red hat has been missing lately!




Donald Trump is at the wheel, and road looks rocky

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/07/20/donald-trump-now-wheel-and-road-ahead-looks-rocky/m6UYxpYuuv5MwNLLvWCjzN/story.html


DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images




Donald Trump arrived in Cleveland on the third day of the Republican National Convention.
By Matt Viser and Tracy Jan Globe Staff July 20, 2016



CLEVELAND — The keys to the Republican Party now belong to a onetime Democrat, a man who has lambasted top Republican Party leaders, a man who diverges from the party’s longstanding orthodoxy on an array of central issues.

It’s Donald Trump’s party now.

And his party is one of anger and division, one that is sick and tired of the status quo and skeptical of all elected officials. It is one that is proudly vulgar, one that peddles in innuendo and conspiracy, and one whose members will speak of shooting the presumptive Democratic nominee for treason or chant in unison, “Lock her up!” It is one that is short on specifics but adamant about bumper sticker promises about building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants and about making America great.

“The party’s DNA has been rearranged,” said Nicholas Kemper, a 20-year-old delegate from Texas who supports Trump. “This is the new era right now.”..................

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