Dear Editor,
There was a time when, as a boy, I didn’t eat pumpkin. Well, that was until pumpkin was the only thing that was available for dinner one evening. Crushed with butter, while still steaming hot, I never had pumpkin so good. I was hungry.
As I try to make sense of the “Trumpmania” that is dominating the United States presidential election, I can only think that there has to be a definite conspiracy at work: either Trump is secretly working the Democrats, or the Republicans are hoping to make America so turned off by Donald Trump (equivalent to my intense childhood stance) that when a more “reasonable” choice is offered, he/she will, hopefully, be seen as being so much better than they would otherwise have been.
Trump’s popularity is likely related to the fact that he does speak to a number of things that have concerned many Americans for a long time. The trouble is, however, he’s saying a whole lot of other things as well; things many Americans do not support.
His dip in the polls now is very likely the proverbial cute child growing up, and losing its childish cuteness. People are now worried that this unconventionally brash, erratic, shallow, man might actually become president of the United States of America. Shuddering thought.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump replaced by a most “likeable” person, who could within a short time outdo Hillary Clinton at the polls, and may win the election. This “Trumpkin” strategy could actually be genius. We’ll see.
Charles Evans
charles.evans@ncu.edu.jm
There was a time when, as a boy, I didn’t eat pumpkin. Well, that was until pumpkin was the only thing that was available for dinner one evening. Crushed with butter, while still steaming hot, I never had pumpkin so good. I was hungry.
As I try to make sense of the “Trumpmania” that is dominating the United States presidential election, I can only think that there has to be a definite conspiracy at work: either Trump is secretly working the Democrats, or the Republicans are hoping to make America so turned off by Donald Trump (equivalent to my intense childhood stance) that when a more “reasonable” choice is offered, he/she will, hopefully, be seen as being so much better than they would otherwise have been.
Trump’s popularity is likely related to the fact that he does speak to a number of things that have concerned many Americans for a long time. The trouble is, however, he’s saying a whole lot of other things as well; things many Americans do not support.
His dip in the polls now is very likely the proverbial cute child growing up, and losing its childish cuteness. People are now worried that this unconventionally brash, erratic, shallow, man might actually become president of the United States of America. Shuddering thought.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump replaced by a most “likeable” person, who could within a short time outdo Hillary Clinton at the polls, and may win the election. This “Trumpkin” strategy could actually be genius. We’ll see.
Charles Evans
charles.evans@ncu.edu.jm