Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected

Since the amazing surge of the Donald to the head of the GOP pack I've been trying to put my finger on why I like him. We've all seen him on TV over the last 30 or so years, everyone loves hearing him tell some tool "Your fired!". Every now and then he makes the cover of the National Inquirer for this scandal or that, but no worse then the rest of the field.
This piece by Peggy Noonan comes close to what I feel covers the silent majority

By PEGGY NOONAN
Feb. 25, 2016 8:02 p.m. ET
We’re in a funny moment. Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant, are struggling to comprehend the central fact of the Republican primary race, while regular people have already absorbed what has happened and is happening. Journalists and politicos have been sharing schemes for how Marco parlays a victory out of winning nowhere, or Ted roars back, or Kasich has to finish second in Ohio. But in my experience any nonpolitical person on the street, when asked who will win, not only knows but gets a look as if you’re teasing him. Trump, they say.

I had such a conversation again Tuesday with a friend who repairs shoes in a shop on Lexington Avenue. Jimmy asked me, conversationally, what was going to happen. I deflected and asked who he thinks is going to win. “Troomp!” He’s a very nice man, an elderly, old-school Italian-American, but I saw impatience flick across his face: Aren’t you supposed to know these things?

In America now only normal people are capable of seeing the obvious.

But actually that’s been true for a while, and is how we got in the position we’re in.

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