Donald Trump, the Anti-Bully
5th January 2016
Laura Ingraham probably knows her audience better than most.
As is often the case, the media and political establishment don’t understand what is happening in America. Nor do they understand what has happened to most Americans who live outside the New York-Washington or San Francisco-Los Angeles corridor.
They have the bully narrative backward. Of course Trump can be rough, imprecise, and overly defensive in his language. He takes the shot when he needn’t. (“Man, Marco Rubio drinks a lot of water.”)
But the truth is that most, if not all, of the folks supporting Trump don’t care who he offends, as long as he’s standing up for them. They feel like they’ve been bullied for years. For them, Trump is like the savior kid in the schoolyard who takes on the bully by popping him right in the eye. The kids who have been ridiculed or roughed up suddenly have a champion.