GOP candidate Trump to offer plan to overhaul US tax code

On ensuring the interests are addressed if he’s elected president: “Nobody will take care of women (better)”.

National Review editor Rich Lowry has an entertaining column about the rise of Donald Trump whose core thesis is that Trump’s rise highlights the unexpected weakness of the GOP’s supposedly “strong field” of mainstream contenders. On the left, Bernie Sanders, though supportive of legalizing undocumented workers, has significant qualms about the effects of further immigration on working class salaries. Instead, they lapped up each word Trump gave. That’s why he’s in a long-simmering feud with Fox News and host Megyn Kelly over her pointed questions at the first debate, and why he fired back by giving out Graham’s phone number after he dared to criticize him.

But the voters in South Carolina are looking for something bigger than just one issue.

At the Chamber of Commerce event, Trump’s opening riff could hardly have been more weird.

During a televised presser in South Carolina yesterday before his supporters, the former Apprentice star addressed a New York Times article billing him as “the man of the toupee”. Of course he said again that his hair is his and not manufactured, which is what brought about the impromptu invitation for the woman to check out his hair.

To prove it, he invited an unsuspecting woman from the crowd on stage to check.

He earnestly held forth on race relations, college debt, fighting poverty and intricate twists of U.S. foreign policy. On it, in large blue letters, was a name: “Trump“. He makes everyone else look small. No worries, Trump assures Hewitt.

Soon, Trump threw the newspaper into the audience.

“I was raised paycheck to paycheck…” This kind of nativist propaganda has always been a part of American public life, and it has been directed toward Irish, Jewish, Chinese immigrants, even Catholics, and more recently Spanish-speaking immigrants and Muslims, and it is always wrong. “It’s hard”, he told the students.

“The concept of hedge funds – now these are guys, they don’t really build anything, they shuffle paper, they go back and forth, they live beautifully and so do I and so do you and so do all of us, OK?” “I know there were 30-plus thousand people in that stadium”. Trump leads most polls of GOP primary voters. “He made fun of Rubio and Bush for hugging”, Vales said.

“We need tough tone or we’re not going to have a country anymore”, Trump said.

The most concise explanation for the Trump phenomenon came from Erick Erickson, editor of the popular right-wing blog RedState, in an interview earlier this month with The Atlantic’s Molly Ball. Though he rages against illegal immigration, he rarely talks about anti-abortion issues, cutting the deficit and taxes, religious freedom or shrinking government.

In a column for the right-of-center online magazine The Federalist, Ben Domenech asked, “Are Republicans for Freedom or White Identity Politics?”

But his conservative apostasy went down successfully nevertheless. The South Carolina Republican Party has announced that it would require candidates to pledge their support to the ultimate Republican nominee in order to compete in the stateé¢â‚â„¢s critical primary, but Trump has still not signed the pledge.