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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Keeping Up With The Republicans -- Recap! [View all]Beartracks
(12,814 posts)... That reason being: both candidates bluntly tell what they perceive to be the truth.
The similarity, however, extends nowhere beyond that.
Apparently conservatives like THEIR truth-tellers to be pompous windbags with no apparent experience, knowledgeable solutions, or interest in public service. Oh, yeah -- and the "truth" part comes with a HUGE caveat in Trump's case: most of it is just opinion and name-calling. But you can't deny that conservatives just lap up his "not your usual approach to politics" style. But is it really too much of a surprise, after years of right-wing "infotainment" media, that bullying and bloviating are all it takes to get conservatives to excitedly think that substantive discussion is taking place?
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