The dem’s Trump card

Donald Trump is a democrat plant. Well, probably not, most likely he’s just an egomaniacal narcissist (unfortunately not harmless) but what he is not is a serious candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. And it seems plausible from his behavior that he is more democrat plant than “conservative”. What am I talking about? Think about it, could there be a better opponent, from the standpoint of President Obama, than Donald Trump?

Democrat campaign contributions can be explained. Trump does business in big cities, many of which are ruled by democrats in perpetuity, so contributing to Rahm Emanuel in Chicago was just ensuring his continued ability to operate in that city without much trouble. Changes in belief, especially on social issues, can be explained. It happens sometimes, one’s views on certain things seem to change for some people and if Trump’s moving in the right direction, all the better.

What can’t be explained is idiotic foreign policy related stances. Other than making gestures in an attempt to assure anyone who will listen that he’s a conservative, Trump’s candidacy rests on two planks, creating a tariff on imported Chinese goods (which will lead to a trade war) and commandeering the resources of Iraq for liberating the country from Saddam Hussein. Trump doesn’t care how much household goods cost and doesn’t understand that a tariff will cause prices to skyrocket, negating any new jobs created by killing demand for products bought with disposable income because higher costs for inelastic products (the kinds of things that are cheap thanks to importation) means that there is nothing left for iPads, eating out and doing things other than sit around. And if Trump thinks that any president could simply commandeer the resources of any other country as some kind of conqueror, well he doesn’t understand why we were there in the first place.

A couple nights ago, Trump found himself in the front row of the press correspondent’s dinner in DC taking jabs from the President and a comedian who is the head writer at Saturday Night Live, which is on the same network as Trump’s reality show. Trump complained afterward but it didn’t mean anything. I can understand that he’s so self-indulgent as to think he is universally adored but could he really think that the President and a well-known flack would let him escape their barbs in a comedy show after Trump’s outrageous statements as of late?

Trump’s ideas are not conservative. If anything his protectionist leanings are more in line with what many democrats profess. If he were to be the Republican nominee he would lose in a landslide because he is a clown. His behavior alone and his ability to create easy strawmen for the President, going so far as to even make himself present for a two-minute hate session at the correspondent’s dinner indicate that Trump only helps the President’s chances for reelection making it imperative that he be ignored because it’s the only way that he’ll go away.